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Sam Kean - The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean - The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Disappearing Spoon : Hardback : Little, Brown & Company : 9780316051644 : 0316051640 : 05 Aug 2010 : Incredible ...
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Latest review by driftless Dec 17, 2010
"If you look back on your high school and college years, fondly remembering detailed explorations of..." Read full review

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Reviel Netz and William Noel - The Archimedes Codex

Reviel Netz and William Noel - The Archimedes Codex

Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created ...
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Latest review by wmcot Mar 7, 2008
"The Archimedes Codex is fascinating reading even if you are not into math. The story of the discover..." Read full review

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Paul Davies - The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

Paul Davies - The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

This look at extraterrestrial life takes a view unlike many before it. A provocative and mind-expanding journey, The Eerie Silence will thrill fans ...
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Latest review by wrdnik3 Sep 13, 2012
"Life, I'm sure you'll agree, is a beautiful thing. That a universe as big and scary as ours can give..." Read full review

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John Evelyn - Directions for the Gardiner: And Other Horticultural Advice

John Evelyn - Directions for the Gardiner: And Other Horticultural Advice

A unique edition of three gardening manuals, Directions for the Gardiner, the Kalendarium Hortense, a monthly guide to the gardening year, and ...
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Latest review by pambo Jun 5, 2010
"So, why should you take advice from someone who died more than 300 years ago? Why, because the sheer..." Read full review

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Rom Harre - Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat: Tales from the Living Laboratory

Rom Harre - Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat: Tales from the Living Laboratory

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Latest review by driftless Dec 26, 2009
"I've been watching The Iron Chef on the Food Network a lot recently. The spectacular del..." Read full review

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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

An evolutionary biologist dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for ...
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Latest review by waynio Dec 15, 2010
"Jared Diamond's 1997 bestseller, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a rare, mind-opening book that deserves..." Read full review

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Thomas L. Friedman - Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman - Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Proposes an ambitious national strategy to address key issues in climate change and energy shortages, identifying the factors that have contributed ...
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Latest review by albo63 Jul 30, 2009
"While the arguments are compelling, and his obvious passion to reverse the adverse effects of climat..." Read full review

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Mark W. Moffett - Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari With a Cast of Trillions

Mark W. Moffett - Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari With a Cast of Trillions

Intrepid international explorer, biologist, and photographer Moffett, 'the Indiana Jones of entomology,' takes readers around the globe on a strange ...
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Latest review by dagny21 Jun 8, 2011
"Growing up in San Diego, ants - specifically Argentine ants - were a major nuisance in my life. I re..." Read full review

$8 - $60

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Sy Montgomery - Birdology: Adventures With a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Liv

Sy Montgomery - Birdology: Adventures With a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Liv

Birdwatching Guides Nature - Meet the ladies a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, ...
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Latest review by jankp Jun 6, 2011
"Ever since I reveled in reading Sy Montgomery's The Good, Good Pig, a hilarious, non-fiction account..." Read full review

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Jeffrey Kluger - Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (And How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

Jeffrey Kluger - Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (And How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

The author of <IT>Splendid Solution <RO>draws on cutting-edge theories to describe the basic workings of everyday objects and principles in ...
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Latest review by BBailey182 Feb 26, 2009
""Simplexity" is an extremely difficult book to describe.Sure is interesting at times, though.Author..." Read full review

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Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond and James Moore wrote a definitive biography of Charles Darwin back in 1991, and here they revisit one of the most controversial ...
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Latest review by jankp Mar 31, 2009
"A lot of people today assume that Charles Darwin, that English scientific icon from the nineteenth c..." Read full review

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Jonathan Weiner - Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

Jonathan Weiner - Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

In this fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure, a Pulitzer Prize-winning popular science writer asks, Has the long-sought secret of ...
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Latest review by texas-swede Jul 25, 2010
"We live much longer than we used to do but how feasible is it to extend our life span even further?..." Read full review

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Gordon S. Wood - The Americanization Of Benjamin Franklin

Gordon S. Wood - The Americanization Of Benjamin Franklin

A leading historian of the American Revolution offers an incisive portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who ...
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Latest review by canuckster1127 May 18, 2009
"You'd expect this book to get high marks, by virtue of the Author and his past credentials. What is..." Read full review

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Edmund S. Morgan - Benjamin Franklin

Edmund S. Morgan - Benjamin Franklin

The author's award-winning portrait of this most American of American Founding Fathers introduces readers to the great contradictions and ...
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Latest review by mtroy1 Oct 18, 2003
"Benjamin Franklin lived one of the most interesting lives in very interesting times. It is disappoin..." Read full review

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Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

One of the oddities about the debate over evolution is that the evidence for its validity is so ubiquitous that scientists in the field simply take ...

$6 - $8

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