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Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
Powells.com Staff Pick
As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling
under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain
ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade...
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Electric Universe How Electricity Switch
by David Bodanis
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From the author of the bestselling "E=MC2" comes this brilliantly descriptive analysis of one of the most powerful forces that controls the universe - electricity....
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The soul of a new machine
by Tracy Kidder
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Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed little, however, is computer culture: the feverish pace of the...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
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Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They...
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When Computers Were Human
by David Alan Grier
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Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term computer referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might...
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Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel
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Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E Ambrose
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Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge...
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Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
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The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
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Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan....
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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
by Richard Fortey
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Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth—describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a...
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The Invention of Air: A Study of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
by Steven Johnson
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Steven Johnson, author of the impressive book The Ghost Map, returns with The Invention of Air, the story of Englishman Joseph Priestley — scientist, minister, and advocate of the American Revolution. Johnson's elegant and engaging narrative...
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Powells.com Staff Pick
Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science.
Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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