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Chemistry and the Enlightenment
by Ian Jackson
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalogue nature's many basic elements.
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The Meaning of It All
by Richard P. Feynman
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In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science, including: Is this really a scientific age?
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
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From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
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One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life.
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God's Equation
by Amir Aczel
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In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.
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Darwin's Origin of Species
by Janet Browne
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Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human.
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Longitude
by Dava Sobel
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An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, "Longitude" is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
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The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
by Amir Aczel
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In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors.
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
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In this dramatic and moving biography, Sylvia Nasar recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by schizophrenia…
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure...
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