Science & Technology
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
$20.00 Add to cartDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz’s Angel o… [more below]
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette Matalon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140169318
- Language: English
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Einstein: The Man and His Mind
$70.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented visual biography of the iconic pioneer of modern physics, with signed photographs, letters, manuscripts and more
A one-of-a-kind, hard-cover, 4.4 pound book with rarely-seen photos of
- Author: Berger, Gary S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 8862087845
- Language: English
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The Sky Above: An Astronaut’s Memoir of Adventure, Persistence, and Faith
$27.99 Read moreLooking up at the stars at the age of ten, John Casper dreamed of being a space explorer. The Sky Above tells how persistence and determination led to flying in space, after serving the nation as a
- Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Casper, John Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1612497160
- Language: English
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Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
$33.25 Add to cart“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”–Barack Obama
A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the- Author: McGuinness, Tara Dawson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0691207755
- Language: English
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
$8.99 Add to cart- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 30 2007
- ISBN10: 9562914267
- Language: English
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Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom, Revised and Expanded
$19.95 Add to cartUnlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance
- Series: Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Author: Leopold, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1557538298
- Language: English
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartDrawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.
C- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1439192375
- Language: English
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
$22.00 Add to cartIn My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this f… [more below]
- Author: Derman, Emanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0470192739
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882
$14.95 Read moreCharles Darwin’s Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin’s family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all … [more below]
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393310698
- Language: English
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Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm
$21.99 Add to cartInfinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm–brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Act… [more below]
- Author: Peat, F. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0201328208
- Language: English
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The Snoring Bird: My Family’s Journey Through a Century of Biology
$17.99 Add to cartAlthough Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his “old-fashioned” father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 006074216X
- Language: English
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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: South America, 1925
$58.33 Add to cartA marvelously annotated and illustrated edition of Einstein’s South America travel diary
In the spring of 1925, Albert Einstein embarked on an extensive lecture tour of Argentina before continuing on- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0691201021
- Language: English
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How to Be Human: An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life
$16.99 Add to cartA “beautiful and astonishing” (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with a… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Jory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1501180525
- Language: English
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A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
$17.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detour… [more below]
- Author: Colwell, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1501181297
- Language: English
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An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle
$25.95 Add to cartAstronaut Roy Bridges intentionally pursued a life of adventure. From fearlessly hunting bears in the woods with his cap pistol at age five, to piloting a fighter jet in Vietnam in his twenties, to ro
- Author: Bridges, Roy D., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1631070401
- Language: English
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Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature
$24.95 Add to cartSecond edition of a concise introduction to Schauberger’s life and thinking.
Viktor Schauberger’s knowledge of natural energies led to inventions which, if properly harnessed, could solve the world’s
- Author: Cobbald, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0863157246
- Language: English
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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
$59.99 Add to cartThis richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
- Author: Westfall, Richard S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: April 29 1983
- ISBN10: 0521274354
- Language: English
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Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System
$16.99 Add to cart“When today’s technology relies on yesterday’s data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases.”
AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America’s history of prejudice and exclusion
- Author: Lin, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637308213
- Language: English
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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
$30.00 Read more*A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection*
The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physicsOn July 4, 2012, the announcement came t
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1541620801
- Language: English
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Science People: A Celebration of Our Diverse People of Science
$24.99 Read moreScience is for everyone!
Science People celebrates the diversity of the scientific community around the world. Meet more than 50 trailblazers in botany, biology, physics, engineering, mathematics, and
- Series: People
- Author: Csicsko, David Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1951963075
- Language: English
