Science & Technology
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Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn May 1998, the US Congress invited the seven members of the L0pht to testify on the state of government computer security. Two years later, that same group rode the Dot-com bubble to create the pree
- Author: Thomas, Cris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987032404
- Language: English
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
$35.00 Read moreWinner of the Crime Writers’ Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction–
In her memoir All Th
A tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal, from the author of All That Remains- Author: Black, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1951627806
- Language: English
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the Mercury Seven, the pioneer astronauts who risked their lives for America’s first manned space voyages.Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in spac
- Author: Carpenter, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439181039
- Language: English
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Edison
$39.00 Add to cartEin Bestseller jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Die gebundene Ausgabe erzielte hervorragende Kritiken im Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Independent und in der Sunday Times – um nur einige zu nennen… [more below]
- Author: Israel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471362700
- Language: English
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
$21.95 Add to cartThe definitive account of Tesla’s life and work
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, pate- Author: Carlson, W. Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165610
- Language: English
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Chomsky and Me: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartBev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her account of those years, working next to a man described by the New Y
- Author: Boisseau Stohl, Bev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193772
- Language: English
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Teen Innovators: Nine Young People Engineering a Better World with Creative Inventions
$19.99 Read moreTeen Innovators tells the stories of discovery and the inventions of nine young students.
For example, twelve-year-old Gitanjali Rao, appalled by the tragedy in Flint, Michigan, found a cheaper, mor
- Author: Estes, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 172841721X
- Language: English
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
$19.99 Add to cart“A funny, marvelously readable portrait of one of the most brilliant and eccentric men in history.” —The Seattle Times
Paul Erdos was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wand- Author: Hoffman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0786884061
- Language: English
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Space Bites: Reflections of a NASA Food Scientist
$16.99 Add to cart“During her decades-long career at NASA, my friend and colleague Vickie Kloeris made sure my fellow astronauts and I were well-fed and healthy while in space. Space Bites is not only a compilation of … [more below]
- Author: Kloeris, Vickie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1955026807
- Language: English
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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
$30.00 Read moreA New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year
Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victo- Author: Bashford, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 16 2022
- ISBN10: 022672011X
- Language: English
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Galileo and the Magic Numbers
$23.33 Add to cartSixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths. His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei said, “Truth
- Author: Rosen, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1504068874
- Language: English
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
$21.99 Add to cartA Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber—Richard P. Feynman was all these … [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0465023711
- Language: English
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin’s data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.
Brenda Maddox tells a powerfu
- Author: Maddox, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0060985089
- Language: English
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
$35.00 Add to cartOne of Esquire‘s 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine B
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0062947222
- Language: English
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Ready for Launch: An Astronaut’s Lessons for Success on Earth
$17.99 Add to cartUsing ten life-changing moments from his path to space, astronaut Scott Kelly shares his advice for mastering fear and failure and turning our daily struggles into rocket fuel for success–the perfect… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1524764329
- Language: English
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
$22.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of … America’s first Renaissance man”… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0385495404
- Language: English
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Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond
$0.00 Read more“A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics.” —The Washington Post
A revolutionary new account of our universe’s creation–and a breathtaking exploration of the land
- Author: Mersini-Houghton, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 19, 2022
- ISBN10: 1328557111
- Language: English
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Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world — twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. A… [more below]
- Author: Mullane, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0743276833
- Language: English
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Tuva or Bust! Richard Feynman’s Last Journey
$22.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Feynman and his sidekick fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending
- Author: Leighton, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320693
- Language: English
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What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
$46.99 Add to cartOnly once in a great while does a scientist/adventurer like Richard Feynman pass by; even rarer is there a record in his own words, such as the record Feynman leaves here, of the wonders that abounded
- Author: Feynman, Richard Phillips
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393026590
- Language: English
