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Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology and Human Error

Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design,...

Author: S M Casey ,  Steven M Casey
ISBN: 9780963617880
Format: Hardback
$76.56

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Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist

Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist

Author: Albert E. Moyer
ISBN: 9781560987765
Format: Hardback
$131.87

By the time of his death in 1878, Joseph Henry was America's most eminent physical scientist. This biography reconstructs...  Read More >>

Water: A Natural History

Water: A Natural History

Author: Alice Outwater
ISBN: 9780465037803
Format: Paperback
$43.56

This history shows how human-engineered dams, canals and farms in the US replaced nature's beaver dams, prairie...  Read More >>

Fledermäuse

Fledermäuse

Author: Jürgen Gebhard
ISBN: 9783764357344
Format: Paperback
$125.80

Ihr Fell gleicht dem der Mäuse, doch sie fliegen wie Vögel – und das vornehmlich nachts. Verhalten und Aussehen...  Read More >>

Kulinarische Geheimnisse: 55 Rezepte — naturwissenschaftlich erklärt

Kulinarische Geheimnisse: 55 Rezepte — naturwissenschaftlich...

Author: Herve This-Benckhard ,  I. Rothfuss
ISBN: 9783540628347
Format: Hardback
$61.56

Anhand von 55 Rezepten aus der französischen Küche - Suppe, Vorspeise, Hauptgang und Dessert - führt der Autor durch...  Read More >>

Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato to Darwin

Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence From Plato...

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780099893608
Format: Paperback
$32.99

In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity...  Read More >>

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

Author: R. Jarvis
ISBN: 9780333794609
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel is an exploration of the relationship between walking and writing.  Read More >>

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

Author: R. Jarvis
ISBN: 9780333658147
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This volume constitutes an exploration of the relationship between walking and writing. Robin Jarvis here reconstructs...  Read More >>

Der neue Sozialstaat: Entwurf einer neuen Wirtschafts- und Sozialordnung

Der neue Sozialstaat: Entwurf einer neuen Wirtschafts-...

Author: Burkhard Wehner
ISBN: 9783531130798
Format: Paperback
$184.77

Die in den entwickelten demokratischen Staaten etablierte Wirtschafts- und Sozialordnung lasst sich kaum noch ernsthaft...  Read More >>

The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age...

Author: David Quammen
ISBN: 9780712673334
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? Over the past eight years, David Quammen...  Read More >>

Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos

Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos

Author: Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9780140256024
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Since the dramatic discovery of the mathematical concept of chaos in 1989, the controversy of its contents has settled...  Read More >>

Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur

Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur...

Author: Sarah Bird Wright
ISBN: 9780312158422
Format: Hardback
$84.99

The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, Edith Wharton's Travel Writing is an engaging study of Wharton's...  Read More >>

Energy Grid: Harmonic 695: the Pulse of the Universe

Energy Grid: Harmonic 695: the Pulse of the Universe...

Author: Bruce Cathie
ISBN: 9780932813442
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Cathie investigates the Harmonics of Light and how the Energy Grid is created.  Read More >>

How We Die

How We Die

Author: Sherwin B Nuland
ISBN: 9780099476412
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes...  Read More >>

Where Does The Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think

Where Does The Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics...

Author: David Lindley
ISBN: 9780465067862
Format: Paperback
$31.99

""Few revolutions in science have been more far-reaching--but less understood--than the quantum revolution in physics....  Read More >>

The Physics of Star Trek

The Physics of Star Trek

Author: Lawrence Krauss ,  Stephen Hawking
ISBN: 9780006550426
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An easy-to-understand introduction to the complexities of today's and tomorrow's physics. The author assess what...  Read More >>

Chaos

Chaos

Author: James Gleick
ISBN: 9780749386061
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-organization and Complexity

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of...

Author: Stuart A. Kauffman
ISBN: 9780195111309
Format: Paperback
$52.77

At Home in the Universe weaves together the excitement of intellectual discovery and a fertile mix of insights to...  Read More >>

The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology

The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, The Rockefeller...

Author: Kay
ISBN: 9780195111439
Format: Paperback
$365.00

Lily Kay argues that molecular biology did not ""evolve"" in a random fashion between 1030 and the 1950s, but,...  Read More >>

The Feminist Dollar: The Wise Woman’s Buying Guide

The Feminist Dollar: The Wise Woman’s Buying Guide

Author: Phyllis A. Katz ,  Margaret Katz
ISBN: 9780306455636
Format: Paperback
$189.95

""Studies have found that the purchasing power of American women is potentially the greatest in the world. So why...  Read More >>

Differentialgeometrie: Kurven und Flächen

Differentialgeometrie: Kurven und Flächen

Author: Volkmar Wünsch
ISBN: 9783815420959
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Die Geschichte der Differentialgeometrie ist eng mit der Entwicklung der Infini­ tesimalrechnung und der analytischen...  Read More >>

The Restaurant at the Beginning of the Universe: Exploring the Wonderment of the World Through Physics

The Restaurant at the Beginning of the Universe: Exploring...

Author: Anthony P. Pitucco, PhD ,  Shawn Agut
ISBN: 9781569760567
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Unlock the minds of students by tapping into childhood passions for learning about the world, and enhance their...  Read More >>

The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography

The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography

Author: Lilly ,  Timothy Leary
ISBN: 9780914171720
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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