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 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal JourneyBest Price: $13.24 I am a speech pathologist and found this book to be the best book I have read in years. The... |  Einstein: His Life and UniverseBest Price: $10.54 What a superb job Issacson has done with this truely great man. Somehow the author has been able... |  The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle KingdomBest Price: $16.50 Having long been an admirer of Joseph Needham, and having read some of his magnificent work... |  The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud**And those who are too fearful to do soBest Price: $18.43 I should preface my review by saying that at one time in my life, I wholeheartedly believed in... |  The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of KnowledgeBest Price: $15.32 Jamie James has written a fascinating account of the life (and unfortunately, premature death)... |
 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)Best Price: $7.67 Part physicist, part prankster, part musician, part teacher, part genius, part story teller,... |  Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)Best Price: $7.74 Was purchased due to a requirement by my childs school. He has informed me it is a good book. |  Tesla: Man Out of TimeBest Price: $8.15 Cheney provides a lot of in depth information about Tesla's personal life, which at times is... |  The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBest Price: $4.20 I have to say this is the most inspirational book I have ever read in my 51 years. Franklin's... |  My Family and Other AnimalsBest Price: $6.88 All of Gerald Durell's writings are terrific, but the ones about his family are truly... |
 iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing ItBest Price: $4.99 As an early adopter of the TRS-80 (1978) and later Apple II I have been an avid reader of much... |  Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His TimeBest Price: $7.73 A short but well written book that sheds light on an almost forgotten man who changed the world.... |  Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind ThemBest Price: $16.50 This was the first book by Cliff Pickover that I've read and it's made me want to read more. I'm... |  My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaBest Price: $5.21 I'm really a fan of Tesla and this book was a good view into him as a person. Although the exact... |  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.01 I have read this book myself at least twice. This book was purchased as a graduation present for... |
 A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert EinsteinBest Price: $11.55 A Brief History of TimeGeorge's Secret Key to the UniverseArchimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science... |  Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveBest Price: $3.98 I had expected a fictionalized narrative following the daughter of the famous astronomer. What I... |  American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerBest Price: $8.49 I cannot find this book. It came with one other book that I am now reading. I can't remember if... |  What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious CharacterBest Price: $8.10 Not quite as funny as "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman", but just as touching. A... |  Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the CongoBest Price: $17.43 "To understand the world, we must understand mean and lowly things." - Aristotle ... |
 Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented ItBest Price: $15.94 Americans have affection for the inventor, the fellow that builds a better mousetrap or even... |  Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his TimeBest Price: $5.00 Dava Sobel's Longitude manages to be both entertaining and enlightening. It's hard to imagine a... |  Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical BoyhoodBest Price: $5.74 We follow in young Oliver's footsteps as he discovers the evolution of science from its humble... |  21: Bringing Down the House - Movie Tie-In: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for MillionsBest Price: $3.93 Winning gambling strategies, including counting cards, are mostly a tedious grind, so making it... |  The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Best Price: $0.89 So the movie of Adaptation was amazing and the overall story within this book is good, the... |
 Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (Whitney Museum of American Art Book)Best Price: $31.50 From his geodesic dome to books popularizing the terms “spaceship earth” and... |  The Story of Science: Newton at the CenterBest Price: $12.95 Our high school children found this to be a great adjunct for their science education. It's... |  The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinBest Price: $6.78 This is perhaps the best biography I have ever read for the following reasons: The author has... |  The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern GeologyBest Price: $1.74 I am not an expert on geology and although I had just learned about rocks and minerals in... |  Pihkal: A Chemical Love StoryBest Price: $15.24 I thought this book very infomative and educational. It gives great insight to DR.Shulgin &... |
 The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries)Best Price: $8.44 Darwin started writing his Beagle Journal in 1837 in "notebook A." He simultaneously... |  A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the BaboonsBest Price: $8.46 This book is hard to classify: Is it autobiography? Primatolgy? Travel adventures? Humanist... |  A Life Decoded: My Genome: My LifeBest Price: $3.49 This is a memoir by the scientist whose team was the first to map the human genome - and handily... |  Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious CharacterBest Price: $18.35 This autobiography of the great physicist Richard Feynman should appeal to all those readers who... |  Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles DarwinBest Price: $13.00 Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, although both famous, would not be said by many to have a... |
 Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North AmericaBest Price: $14.50 In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most... |  The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius RamanujanBest Price: $8.94 I bought this book for my brother as a Christmas gift. I cannot tell you from my personal... |  Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of GeniusBest Price: $15.95 Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century,... |  A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John NashBest Price: $0.80 I read this book about two weeks ago, and I couldn't put it down. Maybe my opinion is biased... |  Charles Darwin: VoyagingBest Price: $15.34 interesting biography of the life of Charles Darwin...great insights on his childhood and early... |
 Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's JourneysBest Price: $11.91 Of all the astronaut bios & autobios this one is the best. Michael Collins' style is... |  iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing ItBest Price: $6.36 Growing up a Mac nerd I have to say this book is a must read! I found it fascinating and I have... |  Charles Darwin: The Power of PlaceBest Price: $13.99 This is the second volume of Janet Browne's superb biography of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). ... |  The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern WorldBest Price: $8.44 I did not realize how little I knew about Thomas Alva Edison - until reading this book. This is... |  The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBest Price: $3.71 In, "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," the life story of one of the most... |
 The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the RenaissanceBest Price: $14.63 Amazon shipped this book in a timely manner. Customer service was great but I did have to call... |  Reason for Hope: A Spiritual JourneyBest Price: $3.59 This is a very good book. It is a good description on the life of Jane Goodall. Very easy read. |  Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of WarBest Price: $20.00 Neufeld inadvertently provides evidence that the Apollo moon landings were a hoax. Chapter 15... |  My Life and Work - An Autobiography of Henry FordBest Price: $5.62 A great insight into Henry Fords' way of doing business. Of course hindsight is 20-20 and Ford... |  Along Came GalileoBest Price: $8.00 This excellent biography of Galileo effectively relates the cultural view toward science at the... |
 The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in SpaceBest Price: $8.00 When I started to read The Last Man on the Moon I wondered: What did it feel like to walk in... |  The Music of Pythagoras: How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path from Antiquity to OuteBest Price: $15.50 The enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient... |  Men of Science Men of God: Great Scientists of the Past Who Believed the BibleBest Price: $3.70 The late Henry Morris, a creationist with no background in biology or history (his degree is in... | ||
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