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  • Tesla For Beginners

    by Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen ...
    Series series For Beginners
    The father of modern-day electricity and considered by some to be the ultimate “mad scientist,” Nikola Tesla filed nearly 300 patents in his lifetime. Many of these patents resulted in functioning inventions; others were little more than wide-eyed dreams—or still await possible development. Tesla For Beginners examines the man behind the alternating current and wireless technologies who traveled ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

    A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

    by Marc Lewis, PhD ...
    Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

    Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

    by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer ...
    Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a SlaveWilliam Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Wizard:

    The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla

    by Marc Seifer ...
    “The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century…fascinating.”—Scientific AmericanNikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Tesla

    Inventor of the Electrical Age

    by W. Bernard Carlson ...
    Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery

    The Race to Find the Body's Own Morphine

    by Jeff Goldberg ...
    The story of endorphins—the body’s own morphine.“Fascinating.” -- The New YorkerThe exciting story of the race to discover endorphins—opiate-like chemicals in the brain—and their links to:drug addictionrunner’s highappetite controlsexual responsemental illnesses such as depression and schizophreniaIn late 1973, scientists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz spent the majority of their tim... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Reluctant Mr. Darwin

    An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

    by David Quammen ...
    Series series Great Discoveries
    "Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius: Second Edition

    by Simon Monk ...
    Series series Evil Genius
    So Many Fiendishly Fun Ways to Use the Latest Arduino Boards!Fully updated throughout, this do-it-yourself guide shows you how to program and build fascinating projects with the Arduino Uno and Leonardo boards and the Arduino 1.0 development environment. 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius, Second Edition, gets you started right away with the simplified C programming you need to know and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Logician and the Engineer

    How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

    by Paul J. Nahin ...
    Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, best-selling popular math writer Paul ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Invented the Computer

    by Jane Smiley ...
    From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion

    by Jeff Ayers ...
    Series series Star Trek
    Through four decades, five television series comprising over seven hundred episodes, ten feature films, and an animated series, fandom's thirst for more Star Trek stories has been unquenchable.From the earliest short-story adaptations by James Blish in the 1960s, followed by the first original Star Trek novels during the seventies, and on throughout the eighties, nineties, and into the twenty ... Read more

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  • Autobiography of Gnani Purush A.M.Patel

    by Dada Bhagwan ...
    In the arena of spirituality, there are unique and remarkable spiritual people who have achieved the highest levels of spiritual development. Some remain in seclusion, while others become spiritual teachers who support the spiritual transformation of humanity.But to meet a Gnani Purush (embodiment of Self knowledge), and to access their spiritual power to achieve spiritual enlightenment, is ... Read more

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