Science & Technology
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Men of Mathematics
$24.00 Add to cartFrom one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.Men of Ma… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Bell, E. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 15 1986
- ISBN10: 671628186
- Language: English
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Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
$21.99 Add to cartNow a CBS All Access series created by Mark Heyman with executive producer Ridley Scott.
ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSIONscreamed the headline of the Los Angeles Times. John Parsons, a m- Author: Pendle, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0156031795
- Language: English
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Forty Years a Forester (Second Edition, )
$24.95 Add to cartElers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot… [more below]
- Author: Koch, Elers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496213351
- Language: English
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Raven’s Gift
$24.00 Add to cartJon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn, traversed the Northwest Passage and paddled across the Pacific Rim. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the rea
- Author: Turk, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611773
- Language: English
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Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition–From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson
$32.50 Read moreScientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world–and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them
Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don’t receive wi- Author: Kirsch, Donald R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763392
- Language: English
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
$24.99 Add to cartPaul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein’s most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of th… [more below]
- Author: Farmelo, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0465022103
- Language: English
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No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
$36.00 Add to cartNo Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It’s the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irrevere… [more below]
- Author: Raskin, Molly Knight
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821664
- Language: English
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Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb
$12.99 Add to cartBomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II.
They were leaning over the edge o- Author: Montillo, Roseanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0316489603
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: An American Biography
$24.95 Add to cartHe educated tens of thousands.
His life story inspired millions.
Now, the only complete and authorized biography of George Washington Carver, a great humanitarian, scientist, teacher, and conservationis
- Author: Holt, Rackham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: January 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0990538524
- Language: English
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Darwin
$45.99 Add to cartHailed as the definitive biography, this monumental work explains the character and paradoxes of Charles Darwin and opens up the full panorama of Victorian science, theology, and mores. The authors br… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 886
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0393311503
- Language: English
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
$17.99 Add to cartOnce upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and… [more below]
- Author: Torvalds, Linus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0066620732
- Language: English
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Editing Humanity: The Crispr Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
$18.95 Add to cartOne of the world’s leading experts on genetics unravels one of the most important breakthroughs in modern science and medicine.
If our genes are, to a great extent, our destiny, then what would happe- Author: Davies, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1643137638
- Language: English
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Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
$22.95 Add to cartThis book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today’s most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures … [more below]
- Author: Wolfram, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1579550037
- Language: English
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High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband
$19.99 Add to cartRick Husband wanted to be an astronaut since his fourth birthday, but it wasn’t always for the right reasons. Initially, he thought it would be neat . . . cool . . . a fun thing to do. It wasn’t until
- Author: Husband, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0785260684
- Language: English
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The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
$16.00 Add to cartThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshnes… [more below]
- Author: Mahon, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0470861711
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
$17.95 Add to cartNikola Tesla invented radio, robots, and remote control. His electric induction motors run our appliances and factories. In the early 1900s, he designed plans for cell phones, the Internet, death-ray
- Author: Munson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0393358046
- Language: English
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The Art of Healthcare Innovation: Interviews and Industry Insights from 35 Game-Changing Pioneers
$14.99 Add to cartWhat if you had a crystal ball that revealed the future of the healthcare landscape?Wouldn’t you want that ball?
Think of how that information could boost your success and impact your future. You could
- Author: Warner, Christina D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1733149619
- Language: English
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and i… [more below]
- Author: Cheney, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743215362
- Language: English
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
$16.95 Read moreThrough family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth–an all-too-human woman struggling to ba
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldsmith, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327485
- Language: English
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All-American Boys
$29.95 Add to cartEDITORIAL REVIEW: *The All-American Boys* is a no-holds-barred candid memoir by a former Marine jet jockey and physicist who became NASA’s second civilian astronaut. Walter Cunningham presents the ast… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1876963247
- Language: English
