Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millennium
Amazon.com Review: Great minds most certainly do not all think alike. Case in point: R. Buckminster Fuller, who revolutionized Western thinking and design, even though only a tiny fraction of his ideas were ever developed. Outrageously, most of his works [... more]
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Won for All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced
Try not not to confuse a passion for doing things right with 'arrogance': Having read paise and criticism (both deserved and not) for my own books on Amazon, I'm pretty tthick-skinned about the content of the reviews posted on these pages. They are after [... more]
$19.95
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The End of Pseudo-Science: Essays Refuting False ...
Author: Mohammed AbuBakr Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780595420247 Edition: 0 ISBN: 0595420249 Number Of Pages: 86 Publication Date: 2007-08-17 Release Date: 2007-08-17 [... more]
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What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading ...
A mixed bag of short essays: The Edge Foundation is an organization of science and technology intellectuals created "to seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have themselves ask each other the questions [... more]
$14.99
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Harmonies Of The World (On the Shoulders of Giants)
historically important: For students of history, here is a reprint of one of Kepler's works. Centuries old. But noteworthy because before Newton came on the scene, Kepler's work was one of the high water marks of astronomy. Plus, the material in the book [... more]
$9.95
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Phage And the Origins of Molecular Biology, The ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 579.26 EAN: 9780879698003 Format: Special Edition ISBN: 0879698004 Number Of Pages: 394 Publication Date: 2007-10-01 [... more]
$29.00
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Shelfari Review: I "read" the Audio-book version. the reading was brilliant. This book goes down as a favorite because in spite of it's silly title it is a wonderful, succinct review of astrophysics. That sounds boring, I suppose. But it isn't: [... more]
$90.00
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The Best American Science Writing 2006
science book: This is a great series. Don't miss any of it. Back order old issues... it's worth it. really good: This is the first edition of this series that I have read. It's pretty good, although, this is more science reporting than science writing. [... more]
$14.95
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Darwin: The Indelible Stamp
Room for evolution: This is a review of "Darwin: The Indelible Stamp," which includes four of Darwin's books, edited and with commentary by James D. Watson of DNA fame. Unlike most works of natural history from the mid-19th-century, Darwin's [... more]
$29.95
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What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the ...
Book Description: This new book, a collection of revised, collected, and some new essays written in time for his 100th birthday by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the past century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on [... more]
$16.99
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Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!): A Guide to ...
Book Description: From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even more mysterious terrain. Michael Hanlon identifies ten scientific questions that we simply can't seem to [... more]
$24.95
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The Best of Technology Writing 2007
Great collections of tech essays.: Superb collection of tech essays with some emphasis on the information technology/internet side of things. Nicely touches on the human element (social networking) and the changes that connected computers have brought to [... more]
$17.95
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