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 SCURVY: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Helped Britain Win the Battle of Trafalgar. By Stephen R. Bown. Remainder Item #1702963 Our Price $5.95

	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

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

	ANCIENT INVENTIONS: Of War, Sex and City Life with Terry Jones. This item is a DVD. It is in full screen format. Remainder Item #172178X 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 #168714X Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $3.95

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

	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 INVENTIONS: How'd They Come Up with That? By Ian Harrison. Remainder Item #1708171 Pub at $30.00 - 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

	CHINA'S MEGA DAM. This item is a DVD. Remainder Item #1721801 Our Price $7.95

	CIRCUMFERENCE: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe. By Nicholas Nicastro. Remainder Item #1726633 Pub at $23.95 - Our Price $6.95

	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

	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

	THE DEPARTMENT OF MAD SCIENTISTS: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs. By Michael Belfiore. Current Item #1703498 Pub at $26.99 - Our Price $16.95

	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 #1666223 Our Price $3.95

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

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

	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

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

	FAUX REAL: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes. By Robert Kanigel. Remainder Item #1684612 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $4.95

	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: A History of the Explosive That Changed the World. By Jack Kelly. Remainder Item #1667823 Our Price $5.95

	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

	HARNESSING THE WHEELWORK OF NATURE: Tesla's Science of Energy. Edited By Thomas Valone. Current Item #1664778 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	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

	A HISTORY OF WRITING AND PRINTING: From Cave Paintings to Pixel. Edited By Giovanna Naldi. Remainder Item #1702297 Pub at $44.95 - Our Price $9.95

	HOW INVENTION BEGINS: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines. By John H. Lienhard. Remainder Item #1717324 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

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