General Books


Pocket Ref Best Price: $7.42 Probably the best collection of tables, conversion factors,material properties and countless...	Chemistry for Changing Times, 11th Edition Best Price: $96.00 There are a number of errors in this textbook, not just in the end-of-chapter review problems,...	How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper: 6th Edition (How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper (Day)) Best Price: $25.16 the book has been very helpful not only for writing papers, but also for the correct writing of...	Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering Best Price: $44.55 As a physicist I rely on this book a great deal. It is written in an accessible informal style...	Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Best Price: $8.36 First of all, those who attempt to come to an understanding as to the origin of the universe,...



Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...) Best Price: $2.98 I like the idea of a relatively easy, general-knowledge book about geography. The...	The Usborne Internet-Linked First Encyclopedia of Science Best Price: $6.25	The ACS Style Guide: Effective Communication of Scientific Information (An American Chemical Society Publication) Best Price: $38.07 I'm a science copyeditor, and I truly don't know how I'd manage without this book. If it has to...	Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century Best Price: $5.25 PROS: Sweeping overview of many technological and scientific endevors. Clear, simple writing....	Bicycling Science, 3rd Edition Best Price: $16.85 As Miss Jean Brodie said, "For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing...



Climbing Mount Improbable Best Price: $8.93 The beginning of this book is wonderful: astonishing examples of animal mimicry, convergence and...	Atlas and Dissection Guide for Comparative Anatomy Best Price: $59.17	How body works (How It Works) Best Price: $11.53 I had the privilege of using this book as a guideline for teaching a group of "home...	Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know About Everything: Duct Tape, Airport Security, Your Body, Sex in Space...and More! Best Price: $8.99 Not as good as the magazine articles... I really think they could've done better with this...	CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 89th Edition (Crc Handbook of Chemistry and Physics) Best Price: $93.88 The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 89th Edition continues to offer the most...

The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit Best Price: $7.95 The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit By Joseph Chilton Pearce You may...	Suppressed Inventions Best Price: $10.56 I thought this was a very informative book about numerous cover-ups. For those people who take...	Brainstorming the PMBOK Guide Best Price: $15.00 The PMBOK? Guide 2000 Edition is an American National Standard for Project Management and in...	Science Is...: A source book of fascinating facts, projects and activities Best Price: $20.99 I had to purchase a Sciensaurus book for a college class and this book was an add on (buy two...	The Handy Geography Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) Best Price: $13.66 My son started showing an interest in Geography in the 3rd grade so we bough t him a couple...

The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide Best Price: $25.28 We bought this for our daughter who is three and just gets lost in the book. As I have not read...	The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions Best Price: $11.15 The main thing wrong with this book is that some of the sections are nothing more than...	Crossing the River with Dogs: Problem Solving for College Students Best Price: $81.38 This book is a great text book. My professor loves it and I really like it too. The way it makes...	Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin Best Price: $5.00 Well.... Gould's message is pure, and correct. We take complexity as a trend...	The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe Best Price: $11.56 This is from the Stephen Hawking website: "It has come to our attention that the book...

The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes Best Price: $7.09 The casebook of Forensic Detection is a very detailed book with great description.My daughter...	An Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms Best Price: $32.79 Very nice and representative fotos. Good description of genera, however it is related more to...	On Growth and Form Best Price: $10.00 When I ordered the book, I didn't even realize the edition was abridged. The book arrived...	Organic Chemistry II (Cliffs Quick Review) Best Price: $4.92 This guide got me through organic chem, I only wish I'd bought it earlier in the semester and I...	That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life Best Price: $8.40 Primarily, it's a collection of Schwarcz's rather entertaining columns on chemistry. Focusing...

An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac?) (Introduction to Management Science) Best Price: $20.00 I had to use this text for a sophmore level management science course. While the book is...	Dissection Guide & Atlas to the Rat Best Price: $27.55	Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest Best Price: $21.86 Sedges are key members of many Northwest ecosystems, performing critical roles in wetlands,...	Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves Best Price: $18.09 I am an MIT engineer (BSME MIT, 1978) and Author of When Technology Fails, and I highly...	The Way Life Works: The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along Best Price: $15.98 This book gave me far and away a much better education in the biological sciences than my 4...

Dictionary of Architecture and Construction (Dictionary of Architecture & Construction) Best Price: $49.53 This book is the most complete I have ever come across, and extremely easy to use. The...	Exploring Creation With Physical Science Solutions And Tests	CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 88th Edition (Crc Handbook of Chemistry and Physics) Best Price: $74.99 If you have any use for the practical aspects of chemistry, this book is for you. Want to know...	Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges: An Introduction to the Genus Carex (Cyperaceae) Best Price: $17.45 Sedges are among the world’s most diverse and ecologically important plant families,...	Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon Best Price: $18.15 A Close Look at Europa . . . And How Big Science Gets Done . . . The second-largest...

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change Best Price: $3.59 DO YOURSELF, (AND EVERYONE ELSE ON EARTH), A FAVOUR....B U Y.... T H I S....B O O K....! ...	Netter's Atlas of the Human Body Best Price: $7.00 I was extremely pleased with the timely delivery and with the condition of the book. It was...	The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition Best Price: $39.60 Science and Technology Studies is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the...	Biochemistry I (Cliffs Quick Review) Best Price: $4.85 it states that pH>7 is acidic and pH <7 is basic in chapter two. This is obviously wrong...	Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science (Ultimate Visual Dictionary) Best Price: $27.90 I purchased this book for my 4 year old son who keeps asking lots of questions. While the book...

What Einstein Didn't Know : Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions Best Price: $4.05 if you want to use your brain for more than figuring out how to cut corners when cleaning the...	The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War Best Price: $12.98 Once upon a time we were little australopithecine animals living in mortal fear of the great...	Oxford Dictionary of Biology (Oxford Paperback Reference) Best Price: $10.00 ...for anyone who is interested in biology. To uses it you need some prerequisite knowledge (so...	Put Your Science to Work: The Take-Charge Career Guide for Scientists - Practical Advise,,, Proven Techniques Best Price: $19.95 This book can be divided into three sections: 1) The "enlightenment section" - This...	Pasteurs Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation Best Price: $18.38 This book provides a wonderful brief history of the transition in the USA between the end of...

Natural Hazards and Disasters, 2005 Hurricane Edition (with Errata Table of Contents and Index) Best Price: $44.99 Natural disasters are a terrible reality of our world. But with the latest scientific research...	The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification (Harvard University Press Reference Library) Best Price: $31.96 "The Tree of Life" is a thorough modern phylogenetic classification of life on this...	100 Science Words Every College Graduate Should Know Best Price: $0.01 The latest title in the best-selling 100 Words series offers a fascinating look at the...	Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication Best Price: $2.74 As an introduction to the idea of personal fabrication this book works out quite well. The MIT...	Guide to the State of the World (Firefly Pocket series) Best Price: $0.99 This is an EXCELLENT REFERENCE for students of any age who is interested in learning about other...

Basic Training in Mathematics: A Fitness Program for Science Students Best Price: $41.18 Wish I had come across this book earlier. Other undergraduate math refresher/review books are...	Failure Mode and Effect Analysis: FMEA from Theory to Execution Best Price: $71.82 This is the second time I bought the same book from Stamatis. The first one I gave to one...	Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life Best Price: $6.44 Gould claims to be interested in debunking the myth that science and religion are inherent...

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