by Erik Larson  
Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Natalie Angier
Powells.com Staff Pick Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com... (read more) Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Owen W. Linzmayer Publisher Comments "Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, and including Apple... (read more) Your Price $22.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of... (read more) Your Price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Mary Roach
Publisher Comments Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They... (read more) Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ray Kurzweil
Powells.com Staff Pick The future of humanity in Kurzweil's eyes is a startling vision of humans moving beyond our biological bodies to join with computers — the human machine. Controversial and insightful, Singularity illuminates the technologies that are pushing the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Thomas S Kuhn Publisher Comments Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Leonard Susskind Publisher Comments What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe... (read more) Your Price $27.99 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge... (read more) Your Price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial... (read more) Your Price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Peter Dear Publisher Comments "It is a pleasure to have someone with Peter Dear's knowledge and ability take on the problem of the textbook. Dear includes both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in his survey and gives the reader a clear and informative account of some of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Edward R. Tufte Synopsis Edward Tufte is the foremost author on the topic of the graphical display of information.... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your Price $26.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments "The Origin of Species" sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. "The Origin of... (read more) Your Price $7.99 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
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