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Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community

Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer ISBN: 9780691633022 Format: Hardback	$140.00
J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer... Read More >>

Archimedes

Archimedes
Author: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis ISBN: 9780691636290 Format: Hardback	$360.00
This classic study by the eminent Dutch historian of science E. J. Dijksterhuis (1892-1965) presents the work of... Read More >>

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic
Author: Chandos Michael Brown ISBN: 9780691633039 Format: Hardback	$310.00
Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher--Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of... Read More >>

Quantum Physics: A First Encounter: Interference, Entanglement, and Reality

Quantum Physics: A First Encounter: Interference, Entanglement,...
Author: Valerio Scarani (Principal investigator at Centre for Quantum Technologies and professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore.) ISBN: 9780198766414 Format: Paperback	$26.95
The essential features of quantum physics, largely debated since its discovery, are presented through the description... Read More >>

Science

Science
Author: Steve Fuller ISBN: 9781138143074 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Author: Nick Bostrom (Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy & Oxford Martin School and Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780198739838 Format: Paperback	$32.95
This seminal book injects the topic of superintelligence into the academic and popular mainstream. What happens... Read More >>

Humanity in a Creative Universe

Humanity in a Creative Universe
Author: Stuart A. Kauffman (Affiliate Professor, Affiliate Professor, The Institute For Systems Biology) ISBN: 9780199390458 Format: Hardback	$56.95
In this fascinating read, Kauffman concludes that the development of life on earth is not entirely predictable,... Read More >>

Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I

Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence...
Author: John F. Dooley ISBN: 9783319294148 Format: Paperback	$64.66
When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Read More >>

The Mysterious World of the Human Genome

The Mysterious World of the Human Genome
Author: Frank Ryan ISBN: 9780007549085 Format: Paperback	$24.99
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome... Read More >>

Think Like An Engineer: Inside the Minds that are Changing our Lives

Think Like An Engineer: Inside the Minds that are Changing...
Author: Guru Madhavan ISBN: 9781780748641 Format: Paperback	$19.99
Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building - looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite, and digital surround... Read More >>

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
Author: Richard Nisbett ISBN: 9780141976273 Format: Paperback	$24.99
Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives to help us think effectively... Read More >>

No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine

No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age...
Author: Professor Steve Jones ISBN: 9781408705964 Format: Paperback	$36.99
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science

Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
Author: Richard Dawkins ISBN: 9780552779449 Format: Paperback	$36.99
In Brief Candle in the Dark we are invited to enter with him a constantly stimulating world of discovery and to... Read More >>

The Brain: The Story of You

The Brain: The Story of You
Author: David Eagleman ISBN: 9781782116615 Format: Paperback	$24.99
Bestselling author and 'the hottest thing in neuroscience' (The Times), David Eagleman, takes readers on a fascinating... Read More >>

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife...
Author: Helen Scales ISBN: 9781472911384 Format: Paperback	$20.99
A biological and cultural biography of the ubiquitous yet mystical seashell. Read More >>

The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?

The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
Author: Nick Lane ISBN: 9781781250372 Format: Paperback	$29.99
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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future

The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see...
Author: Peter Moore ISBN: 9780099581673 Format: Paperback	$39.99
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Extremophiles: Where It All Began

Extremophiles: Where It All Began
Author: Koki Horikoshi ISBN: 9784431554073 Format: Hardback	$103.47
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Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human

Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human
Author: George Michelsen Foy , Tom Zingarelli ISBN: 9781515950165 Format: Audio	$79.17
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Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human

Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human
Author: George Michelsen Foy , Tom Zingarelli ISBN: 9781515900160 Format: Audio	$105.57
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The Substance of Spacetime: Infinity, Nothingness, and the Nature of Matter

The Substance of Spacetime: Infinity, Nothingness, and...
Author: Andrew Martin Ryan ISBN: 9780980208849 Format: Paperback	$44.85
If spacetime does not exist, it does so in a very unusual way. It curves in response to massive objects. It warps... Read More >>

Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk

Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety...
Author: Tracey Brown , Michael Hanlon ISBN: 9780751564952 Format: Paperback	$26.99
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and...
Author: Greg Milner , Eric Michael Summerer ISBN: 9781515904694 Format: Audio	$105.57
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A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth...
Author: Olivier Darrigol (Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, University of Paris 7) ISBN: 9780198766957 Format: Paperback	$96.95
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Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction

Crystallography: A Very Short Introduction
Author: A. M. Glazer (Emeritus Professor of Physics Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College Oxford, Visiting Professor University of Warwick) ISBN: 9780198717591 Format: Paperback	$21.95
Crystallography is a vital field that underlies much research in chemistry and materials science, and has played... Read More >>

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