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The Silent World
Amazon.com — Author Jacques Yves Cousteau EAN 9780060108908 Format Abridged ISBN 0060108908 Number Of Pages 266 Publication Date 1953-06 SKU VIB0060108908More…
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Unlocking The Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to ...
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review In the American imagination, Wilbur and Orville Wright are "earnest, young bicycle builders who attacked an age-old technological problem with fresh, ingenious thinking and dedication." There is plenty of truth to this, writes ...More…
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ISAAC NEWTON UBR CD: ISAAC NEWTON UBR CD
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review As a schoolbook figure, Isaac Newton is most often pictured sitting under an apple tree, about to discover the secrets of gravity. In this short biography, James Gleick reveals the life of a man whose contributions to science and math ...More…
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Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir
Amazon.com — Author Thomas D. Jones EAN 9780060851521 Edition First Smithsonian Books Edition ISBN 006085152X Number Of Pages 384 Publication Date 2006-02-01 Release Date 2006-01-31 SKU TR08195More…
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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
Amazon.com — Author Russ Rymer EAN 9780060924652 ISBN 0060924659 Eligible For Trade In? YES Number Of Pages 256 Publication Date 1994-01-12 Release Date 1994-01-12 SKU GRP30570780More…
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and ...
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2010: Lauren Redniss's brilliant biography-in-collage is an astounding portrait of Marie and Pierre Curie, the husband-and-wife team who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Broken into ...More…
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of ...
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Discarded motor parts, PVC pipe, and an old bicycle wheel may be junk to most people, but in the inspired hands of William Kamkwamba, they are instruments of opportunity. Growing up amid famine ...More…
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Asimov's Chronology of Science & Discovery: Updated and ...
Amazon.com — Author Isaac Asimov EAN 9780062701138 Edition Revised ISBN 0062701134 Eligible For Trade In? YES Number Of Pages 791 Publication Date 1994-11-16 Release Date 1994-10-07 SKU VI-0062701134More…
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental ...More…
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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Most 31-year olds can't boast of being the instigator of a revolution. But then again, the world's leading promoter of open source software and creator of the operating system Linux does humbly call himself an accidental ...More…
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Surely You're Joking, MR Feynman!: Adventures of a ...
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly ...More…
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A Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
Amazon.com — Amazon.com Review Robert Sapolsky, the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and other popular books on animal and human behavior, decided early in life to become a primatologist, volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History and badgering ...More…