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The Very Best of the Feynman Lectures
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($23.96)
With genius, passion, and unmatched flair, this one-volume "greatest hits" of the Feynman lectures places you in the classroom of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant teachers.
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Triumph of Science
by Sherwin T. Wine
Price: Digital Download ($4.95)
The 19th Century featured an explosion of scientific thinking and scientific exploration.
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The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester
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In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head....
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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 20th century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure...
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
by Richard P. Feynman
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife...
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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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Relativity
by Albert Einstein
Price: Audio CD ($18.36)
Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective which had overturned theoretical physics.
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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In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several mega questions of science, including: Is this really a scientific age?
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God's Equation
by Amir D. Aczel
Price: Digital Download ($19.95)
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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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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Six Great Scientists
by J.G. Crowther
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All of the geniuses in Six Great Scientists had one thing in common: the determination to do scientific research whatever the obstacles....
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Hitler's Scientists
by John Cornwell
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When Hitler came to power in the 1930s, Germany had led the world in science, mathematics, and technology for nearly four decades....
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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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American Prometheus
by Kai Bird
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
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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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Price: Audio Cassette ($16.16)
Throughout the age of exploration thousands of lives, and the fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution to the problem of meassuring longitude while at sea.
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
by Alan Cutler
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This is the story of a seventeenth-century scientist-turned-priest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and created a new field of science...
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 5 and 6
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($47.96)
For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike....
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Beyond the Body Farm
by Bill Bass
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A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition.
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The Jesuit & the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
by Amir D. 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 Life Decoded
by J. Craig Venter
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Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life-and-death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine.
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The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
by David M. Friedman
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The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize winner regarded by many as the most brilliant surgeon who ever lived.
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The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
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One of the most famous and influential books of its (or any) time, The Origin of Species is, surprisingly, little read. True enough, most people know what it says---or think they do, at any rate.
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 3 and 4
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($62.96)
For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike....
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 7 and 8
by Richard P. Feynman
Price: Audio CD ($47.96)
For more than 30 years, Richard P. Feynman's three-volume Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as the classic resource for students and professionals alike....
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