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Hardcover : $23.95 Buy	Mendeleyev's Dream The Quest for the Elements Paul Strathern Thomas Dunne Books In this elegant, erudite, but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of...

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Why People Believe Weird Things

Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Michael Shermer; Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould Holt Paperbacks

Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New...

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Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Introspective Engineer Samuel C. Florman St. Martin's Griffin The profession of engineering is rarely the topic of serious public discussion. Multimedia, virtual reality, information superhighway-these are the buzzwords...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Terrible Lizard The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science Deborah Cadbury A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book In 1812, the skeleton of a monster was discovered beneath the cliffs of Dorset, setting in motion a collision between science and religion, and among...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Chasing Science Science as a Spectator Sport Frederik Pohl Tor Books Join science fiction master Frederik Pohl as he takes readers on a wonder-filled non-fictional journey from the ends of the earth to the edges of the universe....

Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	Galileo's Commandment 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing Edited by Edmund Blair Bolles Holt Paperbacks Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science,...

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Satisfaction

Sensation Seeking, Novelty, and the Science of Finding True Fulfillment

Gregory Berns Holt Paperbacks

“A discussion that is meaty, contemporary and expansive . . . Berns artfully blends social critique with technical expertise.”—The Washington Post Book...

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A Most Damnable Invention

Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World

Stephen R. Bown Thomas Dunne Books

Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite made possible the famous industrial megaprojects that transformed the countryside and defined the era,...

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Blood and Guts

A History of Surgery

Richard Hollingham Thomas Dunne Books

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible. But...

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Plastic Fantastic

How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World

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Eugenie Samuel Reich Palgrave Macmillan

Highly regarded science journalist Eugenie Samuel Reich recounts the case of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who faked the discovery of a new...

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Uranium Wars

The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age

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Amir D. Aczel Palgrave Macmillan

Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly...

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Breakthrough

Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg St. Martin's Griffin

It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been diagnosed...

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UFOs

Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities

John B. Alexander Ph.D. St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

Foreword by Jacques F. Vallee Introduction by Burt Rutan Commentary by Tom Clancy A never-before-heard firsthand account of a government insider’s...

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Poison

A History and a Family Memoir

Gail Bell St. Martin's Press

Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the...

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The Poisoner

A Story of Family Secrets

Gail Bell St. Martin's Griffin

Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the...

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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Undue Risk Secret State Experiments on Humans Jonathan D. Moreno W. H. Freeman In 1994, Jonathan Moreno became a senior staff member of a special commission created by President Clinton to investigate allegations of government-sponsored...

Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	The Born - Einstein Letters Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times MacSci Max Born and Albert Einstein, Introduction by Werner Heisenberg, Foreword by Bertrand Russell, New Preface by Kip Thorne & Diana Buchwald Palgrave Macmillan Albert Einstein and Max Born were great friends. Their letters span 40 years and two world wars. In them they argue about quantum theory, agree about...

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The Guardian of All Things

The Epic Story of Human Memory

Michael S. Malone St. Martin's Press

A fascinating exploration of the history of memory and human civilization Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of...

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Electrified Sheep

Glass-eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments

Alex Boese Thomas Dunne Books

Welcome to some of the most weird and wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science—“Perfect summertime reading—preferably with a friend nearby...

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Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	Forbidden Knowledge From Prometheus To Pornography Roger Shattuck St. Martin's Press

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The Artificial Ape

How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

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Timothy Taylor Palgrave Macmillan

A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees,...

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