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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. ...more |
Richard P. Feynman |
30 Sep 2012 |
$15.95 |
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
The best-selling sequel to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"-funny, poignant, instructive. ...more |
Richard P. Feynman |
22 Sep 2012 |
$15.95 |
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A Physicists Labour In War And Peace
This book is of interest to historians of science and to scientists as well as to the general reader. Historians will be interested in the author's 'revealing view' of the British pre war university system, the establishment of Theoretical Physics as a ...more |
E. Walter Kellermann |
28 Dec 2010 |
$5.99 |
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Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics
Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in ...more |
M. T. Br¸ck |
21 May 2013 |
$30.00 |
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Alan Turing: The Enigma The Centenary Edition
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Andrew Hodges |
21 May 2012 |
$24.95 |
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Archibald Sturrock: Pioneer Locomotive Engineer
Born in 1816, by 1840 Sturrock was involved with Brunel and Gooch in establishing the Great Western Railway's works at Paddington and new town at Swindon. On Brunel's recommendation, Sturrock was appointed locomotive engineer for Great Northern Railway, ...more |
Tony Vernon |
15 Jul 2012 |
$21.86 |
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Carver: a life in poems
Poems about the life, character, and achievements of the African American inventor, botanist, artist, and teacher. George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 ...more |
Marilyn Nelson |
4 Feb 2010 |
$9.95 |
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter
Aliens are big in America. Whether they've arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they've been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they've fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. ...more |
Seth Shostak |
28 Mar 2009 |
$27.00 |
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Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago. This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun |
Wayne Biddle |
6 Sep 2012 |
$25.95 |
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Dead Ends to Somewhere
Although raised as the youngest of nine children on a farm in Montana where sibling competition was a way of life, the author's desire to compete did not carry over into the classroom, that is, until the humiliation associated with a simple 6th grade writing ...more |
Richard Ward |
7 Sep 2011 |
$6.99 |
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Dog Days, Raven Nights
Twenty years ago, fresh out of graduate school and recently married, John and Colleen Marzluff left Arizona for a small cabin in the mountains of western Maine. Their mission: to conduct the first-ever extensive study of the winter ecology of the Common ...more |
John M. Marzluff &
Colleen Marzluff |
27 Apr 2011 |
$28.00 |
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Dr. Hyde and Mr. Stevenson: The Life of the Rev. Dr. Charles McEwen Hyde including a discussion of the Open Letter of Robert Lou
Dr. Hyde and Mr. Stevenson: the life of the Rev. Dr. Charles McEwen Hyde, including a discussion of the open letter of Robert Louis Stevenson. ...more |
Harold Winfield Kent |
21 May 2013 |
$24.95 |
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Eiffel: The Genius Who Reinvented Himself
This is the story of Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) and of the conception, and controversial construction of the tower that bears his name, perhaps the most famous tall building in the world. The Eiffel Tower was erected in 1887-9 on the Champs-des-Mars in ...more |
David I. Harvie |
1 Apr 2013 |
$13.11 |
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Eureka! Science's Greatest Thinkers
From Aristotle's pioneering research into animal biology to Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood; from Copernicus's theory of the heliocentric universe to Carl Sagan's speculations on extraterrestrial life; and from Einstein's theory of Relativity ...more |
Hazel Muir |
4 Mar 2013 |
$14.99 |
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Everest - The First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain
Already awarded a prize by the Biographer's Club, Harriet Tuckey's book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith Pugh, whose role was absolutely pivotal, yet mostly ...more |
Harriet Tuckey |
30 Apr 2013 |
$21.50 |
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Falling to Earth
As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that humans have ever attempted. He spent six days orbiting the moon, including three days completely alone, ...more |
Al Worden &
Francis French |
29 Jul 2011 |
$17.95 |
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Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
He walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs--more than any other human. He served with NASA for more than four decades. His peers called him the "astronaut's astronaut." Enthusiasts of space exploration have long waited |
John W. Young &
James R. Hansen |
10 Aug 2012 |
$16.99 |
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Four Passions: Conversations with Myself
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Author Wallace Peters is a renowned medical scientist in his 80s whose main interest is tropical medicine. In 2007, he and his Swiss wife, Ruth, moved into a peaceful retirement village in the English countryside. Nine months later Ruth succumbed ...more |
Wallace Peters |
20 May 2012 |
$9.99 |
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology
Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him ";one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius."; In this fascinating book, Nancy G. Slack presents ...more |
Nancy G. Slack |
6 Apr 2012 |
$40.00 |
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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
The autobiography of one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century physics. ...more |
Kenneth Ford &
John Archibald Wheeler |
30 Sep 2012 |
$15.95 |
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