Science & Invention

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	1800 MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS, DEVICES AND APPLIANCES, SIXTEENTH EDITION. By Gardner D. Hiscox. Current Item #1636081 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $12.95

	500 YEARS OF EARTHMOVING: The Classic Construction Series. By Heinz-Herbert Cohrs. Remainder Item #7495323 Our Price $19.95

	THE AGE OF WONDER: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. By Richard Holmes. Current Item #7480881 Pub at $40.00 - Our Price $24.95

	ALADDIN'S LAMP: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World. By John Freely. Current Item #7377606 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $18.95

	THE ALCHEMY OF AIR: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler. By Thomas Hager. Current Item #7232594 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $16.95

	ALCHEMY--THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC: In Search of History. This item is a DVD. Remainder Item #7346859 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $6.95

	THE ANATOMIST: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy. By Bill Hayes. Remainder Item #1658603 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE ANATOMIST: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy. By Bill Hayes. Current Item #7029047 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $16.95

	ANCIENT INVENTIONS. By P. James & N. Thorpe. Remainder Item #7038992 Our Price $7.95

	ARTIFICIAL SUNSHINE: A Social History of Domestic Lighting. By Maureen Dillon. Remainder Item #7371756 Pub at $29.50 - Our Price $7.95

	ASPIRIN: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. By Diarmuid Jeffreys. Remainder Item #7405723 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $5.95

	BANANA: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. By Dan Koeppel. Remainder Item #7298528 Pub at $23.95 - Our Price $4.95

	BEFORE THE FALLOUT: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. By Diana Preston. Remainder Item #7455224 Pub at $27.00 - Our Price $3.95

	BIRTH: The Surprising History of How We Are Born. By Tina Cassidy. Remainder Item #1640798 Pub at $24.00 - Our Price $3.95

	THE BLACK DEATH. By Sean Martin. Remainder Item #1621513 Our Price $3.95

	BLOOD OF THE EARTH: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources. By Dilip Hiro. Remainder Item #7282176 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $6.95

	A BOOK OF CURIOUS ADVICE: Most Unusual Manners, Morals, Medicine from Days of Yore. Edited By Ruth Pepper Summers. Remainder Item #7290292 Pub at $9.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE BOOK OF INVENTION. By Thomas J. Craughwell. Remainder Item #7402678 Our Price $7.95

	BRILLIANT IDEAS: From the Wheel to the iPod. By Xavier Waterkeyn. Remainder Item #7443897 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $2.95

	BRILLIANT! Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology. By Bob Johnstone. Remainder Item #1644769 Pub at $28.00 - Our Price $9.95

	CIRCUMFERENCE: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe. By Nicholas Nicastro. Current Item #7316534 Pub at $23.95 - Our Price $15.95

	CODE BREAKING: A History and Exploration. By Rudolf Kippenhahn. Remainder Item #7386540 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE CREATION OF THE COMPUTER: Modern Marvels. This item is a DVD. Remainder Item #7499353 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $5.95

	CURES & CURIOSITIES: Inside the Wellcome Library. Edited By Tony Gould. Remainder Item #7371853 Our Price $7.95

	DARWIN'S SACRED CAUSE: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution. By A. Desmond & J. Moore. Current Item #7356129 Pub at $30.00 - Our Price $19.95

	DE RE METALLICA. By Georgius Agricola. Current Item #7250843 Pub at $32.95 - Our Price $23.95

	DECODING THE HEAVENS: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets. By Jo Marchant. Current Item #7362587 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $16.95

	DEMOLITION: Modern Marvels. This item is a DVD. Remainder Item #7380143 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $2.95

	DID THOMAS CRAPPER REALLY INVENT THE TOILET? Inventions That Changed Our Homes and Our Lives. By Catherine O'Reilly. Remainder Item #7433034 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE DIMENSIONS OF PARADISE: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth. By John Michell. Current Item #7048688 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	DISCOVERIES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. By Rodney Castleden. Remainder Item #7360762 Our Price $6.95

	THE DISCOVERIES: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science. By Alan Lightman. Remainder Item #7206100 Pub at $32.50 - Our Price $9.95

	DISEASE: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers. By Mary Dobson. Remainder Item #7080247 Our Price $14.95

	DOCTORS: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers. By Sherwin B. Nuland. Remainder Item #1642200 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $9.95

	DOCTORS: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers. By Sherwin B. Nuland. Remainder Item #7303351 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $27.95

	ECCENTRIC CONTRAPTIONS: And Amazing Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamabobs. By Maurice Collins with I. Kearey. Remainder Item #7366833 Pub at $9.99 - Our Price $2.95

	EDISON'S CONCRETE PIANO: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors. By Judy Wearing. Current Item #165375X Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $9.95

	ELECTRIC UNIVERSE: The Shocking True Story of Electricity. By David Bodanis. Remainder Item #7131844 Pub at $24.00 - Our Price $4.95

	FATAL ATTRACTION: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment. By Patricia Fara. Remainder Item #7058667 Our Price $3.95

	FLUSHED: How the Plumber Saved Civilization. By W. Hodding Carter. Remainder Item #7260350 Pub at $24.00 - Our Price $4.95

	GADGET NATION: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention. By Steve Greenberg. Current Item #7104308 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $13.95

	THE GENERAL RULE: A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures. By Vivian Linacre. Remainder Item #7116462 Our Price $6.95

	GLASS THROUGHOUT TIME: History and Technique of Glassmaking from the Ancient World to the Present. Edited By Rosa Barovier Mentasti et al. Remainder Item #7345720 Pub at $60.00 - Our Price $19.95

	GUNPOWDER: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics--The History of the Explosive That Changed the World. By Jack Kelly. Current Item #7254458 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $9.95

	THE HISTORY OF CRANES: The Classic Construction Series. By Oliver Bachmann et al. Remainder Item #7495595 Our Price $19.95

	THE HISTORY OF ROAD BUILDING EQUIPMENT: The Classic Construction Series. By Francis Pierre. Remainder Item #7495609 Our Price $19.95

	THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: A Browser's Guide to the Great Discoveries, Inventions, and the People Who Made Them from the Dawn of Time to Today. By Bryan Bunch with A. Hellemans. Remainder Item #7399812 Pub at $40.00 - Our Price $11.95

	HOW INVENTION BEGINS: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines. By John H. Lienhard. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #7112645 Pub at $30.00 - Our Price $5.95

	HUMAN REMAINS: Dissection and Its Histories. By Helen MacDonald. Remainder Item #7315309 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $7.95

	THE ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE OF INVENTIONS: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures. By Craig Sandler. Current Item #6316492 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $9.95

	INFERNAL DEVICE: Machinery of Torture and Execution. By Erik C. Ruhling. Remainder Item #7444877 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95