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  • Verner Suomi

    The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

    by Jean M. Phillips, W. Paul Menzel, Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Hans Moosmüller, Frederick B. House, Matthew G. Fearon, John M. Lewis ...
    As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist Verner Suomi, who, in those early days of space science, brought his pragmatic engineering skills to bear on finding ways ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Plague

    One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases

    by Kent Heckenlively, Judy Mikovits ...
    **#10 on Amazon Charts, USA Today Bestseller“This book is my best attempt to tell the truth about my research, the culture in science today which is hostile to new ideas, and what science can really do if allowed to pursue promising areas of inquiries.”—Dr. Judy Mikovits, PhD**This is a story for anybody interested in the peril and promise of science at the very highest levels in our country. On ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Emperor of Scent

    A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

    by Chandler Burr ...
    For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. It concerns how he made use of his powerful gifts to solve one of the last great mysteries of the human body: how our noses work.Luca Turin can distinguish the components ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Perfect Rigour

    A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime

    by Masha Gessen ...
    In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pinecone

    The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine—Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary

    by Jenny Uglow ...
    In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and unusual in every way.Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius—an antiquarian, an architect, and a visionary. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Losh combined a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • This Machine Kills Secrets

    Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

    by Andy Greenberg ...
    At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world’s institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond.WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • No Dream Is Too High

    Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon

    by Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham ...
    Beloved American hero and astronaut Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered—both in outer space and on earth—through his event-filled life, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation.Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Avoid Boring People

    Lessons from a Life in Science

    by James D. Watson ...
    From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers.In Avoid Boring People, Watson lays down a life’s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Truck Full of Money

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    “A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles DuhiggFortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains presents an “expertly reported [and] deftly written” (San Francisco Chronicle) account of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola.In A Truck Full of Money ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Confessions of an Alien Hunter

    A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

    by Seth Shostak ...
    Aliens are big in America. Whether they've arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they've been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they've fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe that aliens really exist, and millions are convinced they've visited Earth. For twenty-five years, SETI has been ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ivor Browne, the Psychiatrist: Music and Madness

    by Ivor Browne ...
    Ivor Browne is Professor Emeritus, University College, Dublin and retired as Chief Psychiatrist of the then Eastern Health Board in 1994. This book charts the growth of one man's journey in relation to psychiatry and human development. Ivor Browne has been a central and controversial figure in Irish life up until the mid-nineties when he retired ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leonhard Euler

    Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment

    by Ronald S. Calinger ...
    An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707–83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, ... Read more

    Was $56.89 USD Now $32.39 USD