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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
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Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They...
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The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by John Battelle
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How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture a The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek Bestseller a Finalist for the Goldman Sachs/FT Business Book of the Year Award What does the world want? According to John...
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Not on My Watch: Hollywood Vs the Future
by Peter Dekom
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Twenty-first century technology, computer wizardry, digital effects, and easy Internet accessibility bring exciting new options to the Hollywood entertainment establishment--and these same dazzling techno miracles threaten to ruin Hollywood and its...
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Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
Powells.com Staff Pick
As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling
under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain
ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade...
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The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning phenomenon! From the bestselling author of "House and "Among Schoolchildren comes the astonishing true story of the "Hardy Boys" and "Microkids" of Data General Corporation--dedicated technological wizards who...
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Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel
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Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of...
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by Mario Livio
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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1...
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Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
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The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species...
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Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick
In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner.
Recommended by Michal, Powells...
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E Ambrose
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Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge...
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Powells.com Staff Pick
Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science.
Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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A Brief History of Time: The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Stephen W Hawking
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"A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature...
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