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 Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive AdvantageBest Price: $15.00 I have revisited this book a number of times since I read it last year. It is a good resouce in... |  This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human ObsessionBest Price: $8.57 This book was found, as many of my great finds, on the shelves of a used-book store. The book... |  Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and WhyBest Price: $6.45 Explores engaging concepts of what makes one a survival, although it's questionable as to... |  The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the WorldBest Price: $8.45 A couple of chapters into Lynne McTaggart's book, The Intention Experiment, I was disappointed.... |  The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern WorldBest Price: $7.96 Discovered Mr. Johnson's book via a column by George Will in the Washington Post online a few... |
 The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human NatureBest Price: $7.96 The quality of this book I think is very good, the way in which the history is related and the... |  Pocket RefBest Price: $7.35 Probably the best collection of tables, conversion factors,material properties and countless... |  The God DelusionBest Price: $7.94 As an agnostic who believes in evolution and the possibility of God, I found the first half of... |  The Ten Most Beautiful ExperimentsBest Price: $12.50 George Johnson chose experiments that "...were those rare moments when, using the materials... |  The Making of the Atomic BombBest Price: $8.98 A dazzling epic. A complete chronicle blending history, physics, chemistry and engineering in a... |
 The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and ObsessionBest Price: $14.39 My husband is scared. I have turned into a fruit monster. Purchasing this book after reading... |  Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite DevicesBest Price: $10.25 Some of the stuff in here is dangerous, but kids will never respect danger if they don't... |  The Right StuffBest Price: $10.33 The Right Stuff is essential reading for any student of post-war western popular history... |  From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals)Best Price: $24.82 This is a collection of Darwin's four best known books, and it's a great read for any natural... |  The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographyBest Price: $6.70 Simon Singh books usually hold you from the first page and till the end. "The code... |
 In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of MindBest Price: $10.13 It is hard for anyone to write a good autobiography simply because we could hardly see ourselves... |  The Origin Of SpeciesBest Price: $3.37 The readers with some science background will not only be amazed, but also charmed by this work.... |  Weeds of the Northeast (Comstock Books)Best Price: $26.96 A very useful book for those of us in the northeast seeking to identify weeds and wildflowers. ... |  Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of ScienceBest Price: $8.37 More entertaining than scientific, maybe that's the way it must be to garner a wide readership,... |  The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNABest Price: $5.50 I remember upon first reading The Double Helix I was delighted with the fact that Watson was a... |
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 What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious CharacterBest Price: $7.89 Not quite as funny as "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman", but just as touching. A... |  The Future of LifeBest Price: $7.91 This book starts out with an interesting conversation between Wilson and Thoreau at the Walden... |  Molecules That Changed the WorldBest Price: $44.00 This book is useful information to anyone interested in the status of Biological Chemistry. The... |  Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our AncestorsBest Price: $8.44 Wonderful a book of distinction. Relates well with Spenser Wells. The whole National... |  Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind ThemBest Price: $15.74 This was the first book by Cliff Pickover that I've read and it's made me want to read more. I'm... |
 The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and InventionBest Price: $16.99 This book is very good to have, especially for Chinese parents with children. Children with... |  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)Best Price: $11.53 Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is arguably one of the most influential... |  The Story Of Science: Aristotle Leads the WayBest Price: $14.48 My daughter is using this book in her 6th grade science class. She complained that it was very... |  Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his TimeBest Price: $12.92 Dava Sobel's Longitude manages to be both entertaining and enlightening. It's hard to imagine a... |  Four Laws That Drive the UniverseBest Price: $11.47 Compact and concise review of 4 laws of thermodynamics. Book explains the laws easily, using... |
 The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries)Best Price: $8.35 Darwin started writing his Beagle Journal in 1837 in "notebook A." He simultaneously... |  On Human NatureBest Price: $17.43 E. O. Wilson is an excellent scientist and writer. His book is very informative, yet still very... |  The Man Who Loved China LP: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomBest Price: $17.15 Another book well done by Simon Winchester. The large-print version was a joy to read. |  The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret (Wooden Books)Best Price: $6.50 I loved the ideas, concepts, and relationships explained in the text, however, I was... |  Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed HistoryBest Price: $8.89 A book about chemistry and its role in the history of the world. Awesome book. Great for all... |
 Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and BeyondBest Price: $2.87 Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond This book came... |  The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern AmericaBest Price: $14.50 A historian of business and society, Professor Klein's has written well on these two topics, an... |  The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $10.01 I really enjoyed this book. It makes you understand that science is not perfect, that not... |  A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert EinsteinBest Price: $11.00 A Brief History of TimeGeorge's Secret Key to the UniverseArchimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science... |  The Physics of SuperheroesBest Price: $2.97 i'm an engineering major and have taken physics courses, this auther really explains physics... |
 Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)Best Price: $48.50 This book is extreamly helpful for academic research. It can be somewhat more technical than... |  The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New DimensionBest Price: $16.58 Book was great. Probably an improvement over the previious two, which I did not think was... |  The Story of Science: Newton at the CenterBest Price: $14.95 Our high school children found this to be a great adjunct for their science education. It's... |  ObjectivityBest Price: $24.29 Received it quickly and in great condition. Cheapest price for a brand new product I could find... |  The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest ScientistBest Price: $8.26 The format chosen by the two authors of this book is that they each wrote alternating chapters.... |
 Suppressed InventionsBest Price: $10.68 I thought this was a very informative book about numerous cover-ups. For those people who take... | ||||
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