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Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin

Guesstimation 2.0: Solving Today's Problems on the Back...

Author: Lawrence Weinstein ,  Patricia Edwards
ISBN: 9780691150802
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Reveals the simple techniques needed to estimate virtually anything and illustrates them using an eclectic array...  Read More >>

Falsche Erinnerungen: Die Sünden des Gedächtnisses

Falsche Erinnerungen: Die Sünden des Gedächtnisses

Author: Sina Kühnel ,  J. Markowitsch
ISBN: 9783827431196
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Was Sokrates nicht wissen konnte: Eine Bildungsreise zu den Grundlagen unserer technischen Zivilisation

Was Sokrates nicht wissen konnte: Eine Bildungsreise...

Author: Siegfried Wendt
ISBN: 9783827431165
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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Simplicity: Die zehn Gesetze der Einfachheit

Simplicity: Die zehn Gesetze der Einfachheit

Author: John Maeda ,  Sebastian Vogel
ISBN: 9783827430595
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Klar und konzis erläutert der Vordenker der Simplicity-Bewegung in dem Buch seine Philosophie. Er zeigt, wie sie...  Read More >>

Chemische Evolution und der Ursprung des Lebens

Chemische Evolution und der Ursprung des Lebens

Author: Horst Rauchfuss
ISBN: 9783642324031
Format: Paperback
$95.71

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Der bewegte Planet: Eine geologische Reise um die Erde

Der bewegte Planet: Eine geologische Reise um die Erde...

Author: Richard Fortey ,  Jens Seeling
ISBN: 9783827431141
Format: Paperback
$85.36

Und mit jeder neuen Geschichte, die er erzählt, treten Verbindungen von der jüngeren Vergangenheit zu längst vergessenen...  Read More >>

Robotics: A Very Short Introduction

Robotics: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Alan Winfield (Professor, Bristol Robotics Laboratory)
ISBN: 9780199695980
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to...  Read More >>

Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

Author: David Muir Wood (Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9780199578634
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide. In this Very Short Introduction, David...  Read More >>

The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World

The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions...

Author: Bryan Appleyard
ISBN: 9781780220154
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An antidote to the modern frustrations of an ever complex world from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author 'Essential...  Read More >>

Heilsamer Zauber: Psychologie eines neuen Trends

Heilsamer Zauber: Psychologie eines neuen Trends

Author: Eckart R. Straube ,  Martin Lay
ISBN: 9783827431066
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Seit einiger Zeit steigt das Interesse an alternativer spiritueller Lebenshilfe. Warum suchen Menschen bei modernen...  Read More >>

On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions of existence

On Being: A scientist's exploration of the great questions...

Author: Peter Atkins (Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199660544
Format: Paperback
$23.95

In this short book Peter Atkins considers the universal questions to which religions have claimed answers. With...  Read More >>

Beyond The Stars: Our Origins And The Search For Life In The Universe

Beyond The Stars: Our Origins And The Search For Life...

Author: Paolo Saraceno (Univ Of Rome, Italy) ,  David L Goodstein (California Inst Of Tech & Univ Of California, Los Angeles, Usa)
ISBN: 9789814295536
Format: Hardback
$155.25

What is the origin of the universe? Are we alone in the Universe? This book explores these two interesting scientific-philosophical...  Read More >>

Discord: The Story of Noise

Discord: The Story of Noise

Author: Mike Goldsmith (Freelance science writer and Former Head of Acoustics, National Physical Laboratory)
ISBN: 9780199600687
Format: Hardback
$34.95

As humankind creates ever more noise, the battle to manage and control it intensifies. Mike Goldsmith considers...  Read More >>

How Einstein Created Relativity out of Physics and Astronomy

How Einstein Created Relativity out of Physics and Astronomy...

Author: David Topper
ISBN: 9781461447818
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book tracks the history of the theory of relativity through Einstein’s life, with in-depth studies of its background...  Read More >>

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

Author: Jim Al-Khalili
ISBN: 9780307986795
Format: Paperback
$44.88

A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from...  Read More >>

The Best Science Writing Online 2012

The Best Science Writing Online 2012

Author: Jennifer Ouellette ,  Jennifer Ouellette
ISBN: 9780374533342
Format: Paperback
$39.59

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The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars

The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin...

Author: Jacob Berkowitz
ISBN: 9781616145491
Format: Hardback
$54.99

In 1957, as the world obsessed over the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, another, less noticed space age...  Read More >>

Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie

Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie...

Author: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9783642312786
Format: Paperback
$142.29

„Das vorliegende Büchlein soll solchen eine möglichst exakte Einsicht in die Relativitätstheorie vermitteln, die...  Read More >>

Survivors: The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

Survivors: The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left...

Author: Richard Fortey
ISBN: 9780007209873
Format: Paperback
$19.99

An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living...  Read More >>

The Magic of Reality: Illustrated Children's Edition

The Magic of Reality: Illustrated Children's Edition...

Author: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780857531940
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Introducing Graphic Guide box set - Great Theories of Science

Introducing Graphic Guide box set - Great Theories of...

Author: Bruce Bassett ,  J.P. McEvoy
ISBN: 9781848314559
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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A Universe From Nothing

A Universe From Nothing

Author: Lawrence M. Krauss
ISBN: 9781471112683
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Islands Beyond the Horizon: The life of twenty of the world's most remote places

Islands Beyond the Horizon: The life of twenty of the...

Author: Roger Lovegrove (Former Director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Wales)
ISBN: 9780199606498
Format: Hardback
$46.95

Renowned naturalist Roger Lovegrove has travelled to the world's remotest islands, from the South Seas to the Arctic...  Read More >>

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