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Hardcover : $25.00 Buy	E=mc2 A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation David Bodanis; With a new introduction by Simon Singh Walker & Company To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s miracle year of discoveries, a new edition of the bestselling “biography” of his famous equation Generations...

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,...

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	The Virus and the Vaccine Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers, and Government Neglect Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher St. Martin's Griffin Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is regarded as a veritbale medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the...

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Thin Ice

Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains

Mark Bowen A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read.”—Bill McKibben, The New...

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Trees of North America

A Guide to Field Identification, Revised and Updated

Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press

C. Frank Brockman; Illustrated by Rebecca Marrilees; Revised by Jonathan P. Latimer and Karen Stray Nolting with David Challinor, Scientist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

Golden Field Guides from St. Martin's Press are the leading nature guides for the classroom. Thorough and authoritative, they are also compact and lightweight, designed for portability and easy access.

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Poisonous Animals A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Edmund D. Brodie, Jr., Ph.D.; Illustrated by John D. Dawson Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

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Reptiles of North America

A Guide to Field Identification

Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press

Hobart M. Smith and Edmund D. Brodie, Jr; Illustrated by David M. Dennis and Sy Barlowe Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

Golden Field Guides from St. Martin's Press are the leading nature guides for the classroom. Thorough and authoritative, they are also compact and lightweight, designed for portability and easy access.

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Fixing Climate

What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It

Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig Hill and Wang

“A remarkably readable and compelling account of the important advances in our understanding of the complexity of global climate that have taken place over the past 40 years. The book is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand the unique nature of the climate change underway today.”—Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Red Moon Rising Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age Matthew Brzezinski Holt Paperbacks “In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	The Social Atom Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You Mark Buchanan Bloomsbury USA The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often...

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On Being Certain

Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

Robert A. Burton, MD St. Martin's Griffin

“A fascinating read. Burton’s engaging prose takes us into the deepest corners of our subconscious, making us question our most solid contentions. Nobody who reads this book will walk away from it and say ‘I know this for sure’ ever again."—Sylvia Pagán Westphal, science reporter, The Wall Street Journal

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The Lost King of France

How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Deborah Cadbury St. Martin's Griffin

Royalty, revolution, and scientific mystery---the dramatic true account of the fate of Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and an extraordinary detective...

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Competition

The Birth of a New Science

James Case Hill and Wang

"James Case strikes at the heart of modern neoclassical analysis with this penetrating exploration of the reigning orthodoxy and the alternatives we need to consider. The implications for economic thought are startling. The implications for economic policy are stunning."—Louis Galambos, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University

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The Science of Star Wars

An Astrophysicist's Independent Examination of Space Travel, Aliens, Planets, and Robots as Portrayed in the Star Wars Films and Books

Jeanne Cavelos St. Martin's Griffin

Former NASA astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos examines the scientific possibility of the fantastical world of Star Wars. She explains to non-technical readers how...

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Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Trials of the Monkey An Accidental Memoir Matthew Chapman Picador "When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man he was thinking of his progeny." So declares Darwin's great-great...

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Planets A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Mark R. Chartrand, Ph.D.; Illustrated by Ron Miller Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

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Night Sky

A Guide To Field Identification

Golden Field Guide from St. Martin's Press

Mark R. Chartrand, Senior Vice President, National Space Society; Illustrated by Helmut K. Wimmer Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

Golden Field Guides from St. Martin's Press are the leading nature guides for the classroom. Thorough and authoritative, they are also compact and lightweight, designed for portability and easy access.

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Evolution A Little History of a Great Idea Wooden Books Gerard Cheshire Walker & Company The smallest book on evolution asks big questions. Anticipating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species throughout 2009, Evolution...

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The God Effect

Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon

Brian Clegg St. Martin's Griffin

"A superb exploration of this weird and wonderful physical phenomenon and the ways it could change our lives."—Popular Science

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Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	Instant Egghead Guide Physics Brian Clegg St. Martin's Griffin Scientific American's daily Sixty-Second Science podcast was such an unexpected success, with millions of downloads, that a spin-off site was created around...

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Armageddon Science

The Science of Mass Destruction

Clegg, Brian St. Martin's Press

Climate change. Nuclear devastation. Bio-hazards. The Large Hadron Collider. What do these things have in common? They all have the potential to end our world....

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Almost Chimpanzee

Searching for What Makes Us Human, in Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries, and Zoos

Jon Cohen Times Books

The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins In the fall of...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Carrying the Fire An Astronaut's Journeys Michael Collins; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing...

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	What If the Earth Had Two Moons? Neil F. Comins St. Martin's Griffin “What if?” questions have always stimulated people to think in new ways. What if the Earth Had Two Moons leads us on a fascinating 10 world journey exploring...