Science & Technology
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna’s Double Helix
$30.00 Add to cartJames Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1324002239
- Language: English
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A Chat with Vivien Thomas: She Was the 1St to Interview Mr.Thomas on His Extraordinary Technical Discoveries Used in Dr Alfred Blalock ‘s ‘Blue B
$10.99 Add to cart” Experiece the interview with Mr Thomas himself as though you were there the history making development of the Blue Baby Operation.
- Author: Gladden, Jessie B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: February 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1532085850
- Language: English
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
$17.99 Add to cartRecent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania has been renowned as one of the … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026113
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
$19.00 Add to cartWith a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier
A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool—a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. W- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002486
- Language: English
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An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life
$36.99 Add to cartA gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women.
Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love
- Author: Streshinsky, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1618580191
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Ellen Ullman’s memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to th
- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250884128
- Language: English
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Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure
$24.99 Add to cartA captivating memoir from one of the first zoologists to study wild animals in Africa.
In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffes and a dream to study them in
- Series: Life Writing
- Author: Dagg, Anne Innis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0889204632
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
$17.99 Add to cartFrom Simon & Schuster, The Mystery of the Aleph is Amir D. Aczel’s compelling narrative that blends a story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
From the Pythag- Series: Mathematics, the Kabbalah and the Search for Infinity
- Author: Aczel, Amir D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0743422996
- Language: English
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
$15.99 Add to cartA collection of anthropologist Goodall’s letters from her early years reveals the person only her friends and family knew until now. Here is the girl who punts at Oxford, who journeys to Africa for th… [more below]
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0618127356
- Language: English
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Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult
$24.95 Read moreAleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influenc
- Author: Spence, Richard B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1932595333
- Language: English
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
$18.00 Read moreSoon to be a major motion picture, this is the first–and only–definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history.When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’… [more below]
- Author: Hansen, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1501153064
- Language: English
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An Improbable Astronaut: How a Georgia farmboy wound up flying the space shuttle
$54.95 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.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1631070428
- Language: English
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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science
$26.99 Add to cartPerhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrenc
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340651
- Language: English
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Marie Curie: A Life
$25.99 Add to cart“A touching three-dimensional portrait of the Polish-born scientist and two-time Nobel Prize winner” (Kirkus) Madame Curie, the discoverer of radium and radioactivity
One hundred years ago, Marie Curi- Series: Radcliffe Biography Series
- Author: Quinn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 10 1996
- ISBN10: 0201887940
- Language: English
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The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
$19.99 Add to cart*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize*
One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of mat- Author: Steinhardt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 147672993X
- Language: English
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Through the Firewall: The Alchemy of Turning Crisis Into Opportunity
$24.99 Add to cartBoyd Clewis has defied the odds and gravity. He was born dead, changed schools and homes as a child more times than he can count, became a teenage father and a track star, had more than one close brus
- Author: Clewis, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887501802
- Language: English
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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
$30.00 Read moreWhy understanding evolution–the most reviled branch of science–can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism
Evolutionary science has long been regarded as conservative, a tool for enfo
- Author: Graves, Joseph L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600711
- Language: English
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting That Changed the Course of Science
$18.95 Read moreA prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil.
In 1911, some of the greatest minds i- Author: Orens, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362177
- Language: English
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Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
$32.00 Read moreTold by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth
- Author: Markoff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0735223947
- Language: English
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Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
$28.00 Read moreIn this insightful and revelatory new book, the author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking … [more below]
- Author: Seifer, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0806540966
- Language: English
