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  • Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

    by Kary Mullis ...
    Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Idea Man

    A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

    by Paul Allen ...
    By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning.In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigor ... Read more

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  • A Crack In Creation

    Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of BooksNot since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Air

    A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America

    From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long forgotten”(Newsweek) and a brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers.In The Invention of Air, national bestselling author Steven.. ... Read more

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  • Strange Beauty

    Murray Gell-Mann & the Revolution in Physics

    Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his models of the quark and the Eightfold Way.Beautifully balanced in its portrayal of an extraordinary and difficult man, interpreting the concepts of advanced physics with ... Read more

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  • The Meinertzhagen Mystery

    Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen (1878û1967) was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international ornithology. His exploits inspired three biographies, movies have been based on his life, and a square in Jerusalem is dedicated to his memory. Meinertzhagen was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, T. E. ... Read more

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  • A New Look to Chemistry

    by North Star ...
    A NEW LOOK TO CHEMISTRY is an educational book that takes readers into the world of chemistry. Here, the author presents some relevant ideas like introducing a particle into a potential energy field at an angle. It provides discussions and graphical presentation from a total differential equation to the path of an electron in an energy orbital; electronegativity and polarity to activation energy ... Read more

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  • Making Marie Curie

    Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

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    In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements—the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences—are studied by schoolchildren across the world. When, in 2009, the New Scientist carried out a poll for the “Most Inspirational Female ... Read more

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  • The Experimental Self

    Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science

    by Jan Golinski ...
    What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest background, Davy was propelled by his scientific accomplishments to a knighthood and the presidency ... Read more

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  • Voyage Through Time

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    by Ahmed Zewail ...
    In this engaging exposé of his life and work until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, Ahmed Zewail explores in non-technical language the landscape of molecules glimpsed on the scale of one quadrillionth of a second: the femtosecondFrom a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through ... Read more

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  • Everything You Must Know about Radioactivity 6th Grade Chemistry | Children's Chemistry Books

    What is there to know about radioactivity? Lots! And this book will only provide some of the most basic facts to get you introduced into that wonderful world! It is also recommended that you use this book as a reviewer if you are already touching the subject in school. Either way, this will prove to be an excellent read. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

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