Scientists, Academics & Inventors

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	109 EAST PALACE: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos. By Jennet Conant. Remainder Item #7027044 Pub at $26.95 - Our Price $4.95

	A BRILLIANT DARKNESS: The Extraordinary Life and Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age. By Joao Magueijo. Current Item #166591X Pub at $27.50 - Our Price $17.95

	CHARLES DARWIN: Very Interesting People. By Adrian Desmond et al. Remainder Item #7303718 Pub at $9.95 - Our Price $3.95

	CHARLES FORT: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural. By Jim Steinmeyer. Remainder Item #7298560 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $3.95

	CHRISTOPHER WREN: Very Interesting People. By Kerry Downes. Remainder Item #7303734 Pub at $9.99 - Our Price $3.95

	THE COMET SWEEPER: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition. By Claire Brock. Remainder Item #7371845 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

	DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race. By Wayne Biddle. Current Item #1621270 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $17.95

	EINSTEIN A TO Z. By K.C. Fox & A. Keck. Remainder Item #7166788 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $3.95

	THE EINSTEIN ALMANAC. By Alice Calaprice. Remainder Item #7436440 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $5.95

	EINSTEIN: His Life and Universe. By Walter Isaacson. Remainder Item #1693425 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $5.95

	EINSTEIN: The Life and Times. By Ronald W. Clark. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #7016271 Pub at $18.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE ELECTRIC LIFE OF MICHAEL FARADAY. By Alan Hirshfeld. Remainder Item #1697889 Our Price $4.95

	EUREKA MAN: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes. By Alan Hirshfeld. Current Item #751672X Pub at $26.00 - Our Price $16.95

	A FORCE OF NATURE: Great Discoveries. By Richard Reeves. Remainder Item #7376928 Pub at $23.95 - Our Price $6.95

	FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER: Strange Roads Going Down. By Allan G. Bogue. Remainder Item #7390262 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $4.95

	GENIUS: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. By James Gleick. Remainder Item #1802631 Pub at $16.00 - Our Price $5.95

	GLENN CURTISS: Pioneer of Aviation. By Alden Hatch. Current Item #7040229 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	GREGOR MENDEL: Planting the Seeds of Genetics. By Simon Mawer. Remainder Item #1765051 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $6.95

	IN ALBERT'S SHADOW: The Life and Letters of Mileva Maric, Einstein's First Wife. Edited By Milan Popovic. Remainder Item #7168926 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $4.95

	ISAAC NEWTON: Very Interesting People. By Richard S. Westfall. Remainder Item #7303939 Pub at $9.99 - Our Price $3.95

	JERRY WIESNER--SCIENTIST, STATESMAN, HUMANIST: Memories and Memoirs. Edited By Walter A. Rosenblith. Remainder Item #7317980 Pub at $38.00 - Our Price $4.95

	THE KNIFE MAN: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery. By Wendy Moore. Remainder Item #7377770 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $5.95

	A LIFE IN TWILIGHT: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer. By Mark Wolverton. Remainder Item #1727222 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $5.95

	A LIFE OF DISCOVERY: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution. By James Hamilton. Remainder Item #6250599 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $9.95

	THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. By David Leavitt. Remainder Item #7115202 Pub at $22.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. By Simon Winchester. This item is a CD. Remainder Item #1619535 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $7.95

	THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. By Simon Winchester. Remainder Item #1756885 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $5.95

	MARTIANS OF SCIENCE: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. By Istvan Hargittai. Remainder Item #1774301 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $6.95

	MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS. By Tracy Kidder. Remainder Item #1771329 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $4.95

	MR. GATLING'S TERRIBLE MARVEL: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It. By Julia Keller. Remainder Item #1695851 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $6.95

	THE MURDER OF NIKOLAI VAVILOV: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century. By Peter Pringle. Remainder Item #7300417 Pub at $26.00 - Our Price $6.95

	MY FATHER, THE CAPTAIN: My Life with Jacques Cousteau. By Jean-Michel Cousteau with D. Paisner. Current Item #1791648 Pub at $26.00 - Our Price $16.95

	NEWTON: Ackroyd's Brief Lives. By Peter Ackroyd. Remainder Item #1639803 Pub at $21.95 - Our Price $5.95

	NIEUPORT: A Biography of Edouard Nieuport, 1875-1911. By Gerard & Bertrand Pommier. Current Item #2398222 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $24.95

	PRODIGAL GENIUS: The Life of Nikola Tesla. By John J. O'Neill. Current Item #1664921 Pub at $18.95 - Our Price $13.95

	R.D. Laing: A Life. By Adrian Laing. Remainder Item #7353936 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	RACHEL CARSON: Witness for Nature. By Linda Lear. Current Item #7384440 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $12.95

	THE RELUCTANT MR. DARWIN: Great Discoveries. By David Quammen. Remainder Item #1672606 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	RUDOLF KOCH: Letterer, Type Designer, Teacher. By Gerald Cinamon. Remainder Item #1685643 Pub at $49.95 - Our Price $19.95

	THE SCIENTISTS: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors. By John Gribbin. Current Item #7219075 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $12.95

	SIMON WILLARD AND HIS CLOCKS. By John Ware Willard. Remainder Item #7461909 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $3.95

	SPIRIT AND CREATOR: The Mysterious Man Behind Lindbergh's Flight to Paris. By Nova Hall. Remainder Item #7346557 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $4.95

	SPLENDIDLY UNREASONABLE INVENTORS: The Lives, Loves and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World. By Jeremy Coller with C. Chamberlain. Current Item #1658409 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	TESLA: Man Out of Time. By Margaret Cheney. Current Item #6168841 Pub at $16.00 - Our Price $10.95

	THEY MADE AMERICA. By Harold Evans et al. Remainder Item #1790234 Pub at $18.95 - Our Price $4.95

	VON BRAUN: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. By Michael J. Neufeld. Remainder Item #1799010 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $9.95

	VON BRAUN: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. By Michael J. Neufeld. Current Item #7304765 Pub at $18.95 - Our Price $12.95

	WESTINGHOUSE. This item is a DVD. It is in wide screen format. Remainder Item #7514247 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $7.95

	THE WIZARD OF MENLO PARK: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World. By Randall Stross. Remainder Item #7203217 Our Price $3.95