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The long thaw : how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate / David Archer November 17, 2009
The God effect : quantum entanglement, science's strangest phenomenon / Brian Clegg November 6, 2009
Solid state physics October 28, 2009
Advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics October 28, 2009
Annual review of earth and planetary sciences October 28, 2009
The atom and the apple : twelve tales from contemporary physics / Sâebastien Balibar ; translated by Nathanael Stein October 23, 2009
The invention of air : a story of science, faith, revolution, and the birth of America / Steven Johnson October 23, 2009
Solar sails : a novel approach to interplanetary travel / Giovanni Vulpetti, Les Johnson, Gregory L. Matloff October 15, 2009
Von Braun : dreamer of space, engineer of war / Michael J. Neufeld October 14, 2009
Television : the life story of a technology / Alexander B. Magoun October 14, 2009
The life of Benjamin Banneker : the first African-American man of science / Silvio A. Bedini October 14, 2009
The natural laws of the universe : understanding fundamental constants / Jean-Philippe Uzan, Bâenâedicte Leclercq October 9, 2009
Chymists and chymistry : studies in the history of alchemy and early modern chemistry / Lawrence M. Principe, editor September 29, 2009
Field guide to meteors and meteorites / O. Richard Norton, Lawrence A. Chitwood September 16, 2009
Critique of intelligent design : materialism versus creationism from antiquity to the present / John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York September 16, 2009
Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics September 10, 2009
Forces in physics : a historical perspective / Steven N. Shore September 4, 2009
Imperial nature : Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian science / Jim Endersby August 29, 2009
Topological foundations of electromagnetism / Terence W. Barrett August 29, 2009
A survey of computational physics : introductory computational science / Rubin H. Landau, Manuel Jose Paez, Cristian C. Bordeianu August 26, 2009
William Crookes (1832-1919) and the commercialization of science / William H. Brock August 26, 2009
Aetna and the moon : explaining nature in ancient Greece and Rome / Liba Taub August 18, 2009
The black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics / Leonard Susskind August 18, 2009
Notes on acoustics / Uno Ingard August 18, 2009
On space and time / Alain Connes ... [et al.] ; edited by Shahn Majid August 14, 2009
The quantum frontier : the large hadron collider / Don Lincoln ; foreword by Leon Lederman August 14, 2009
Quantum mechanics for scientists and engineers / David A.B. Miller August 14, 2009
Science in the new Russia : crisis, aid, reform / Loren Graham and Irina Dezhina August 14, 2009
The inner history of devices / edited and with an introductory essay by Sherry Turkle August 12, 2009
After the last man : excurses to the limits of the technological system / Toivo Koivukoski August 12, 2009
The American cane mill : a history of the machines, the manufacturers, sugar cane and sorghum / Don Howard Dean ; foreword by Bill Outlaw August 12, 2009
A revolution down on the farm : the transformation of American agriculture since 1929 / Paul K. Conkin August 7, 2009
The constant fire : beyond the science vs. religion debate / Adam Frank July 29, 2009
Sun in a bottle : the strange history of fusion and the science of wishful thinking / Charles Seife July 29, 2009
Artificial dreams : the quest for non-biological intelligence / H.R. Ekbia July 1, 2009
Titan unveiled : Saturn's mysterious moon explored / Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton July 1, 2009
A force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford / Richard Reeves July 1, 2009
The mystery of the missing antimatter / Helen R. Quinn and Yossi Nir ; illustrations by Ruru Modan July 1, 2009
Heat and thermodynamics : a historical perspective / Christopher J.T. Lewis July 1, 2009
2007 Physics Education Research Conference : Greensboro, North Carolina, 1-2 August 2007 / editors, Leon Hsu, Charles Henderson, Laura McCullough ; sponsoring organization, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) July 1, 2009
Transforming science and engineering : advancing academic women / Abigail J. Stewart, Janet E. Malley & Danielle LaVaque-Manty, editors July 1, 2009
Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy July 1, 2009
Reporting results : a practical guide for engineers and scientists / David C. Van Aken, William F. Hosford July 1, 2009
Rethinking science, technology, and social change / Ralph Schroeder July 1, 2009
Lonely minds in the universe / Giancarlo Genta July 1, 2009
Maria Mitchell and the sexing of science : an astronomer among the American romantics / Renâee Bergland July 1, 2009
Analytical instrumentation : a guide to laboratory, portable and miniaturized instruments / Gillian McMahon July 1, 2009
Darwin's illness / Ralph Colp, Jr. ; foreword by James Moore July 1, 2009
Fitness of the cosmos for life : biochemistry and fine-tuning / edited by John Barrow ... [et al.] July 1, 2009
The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany July 1, 2009
Very special relativity : an illustrated guide / Sander Bais July 1, 2009
Heat : how to stop the planet from burning / George Monbiot ; with research assistance from Matthew Prescott July 1, 2009
Mortal coil : a short history of living longer / David Boyd Haycock July 1, 2009
The wraparound universe / Jean-Pierre Luminet ; translated by Eric Novak July 1, 2009
The science of Leonardo : inside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance / Fritjof Capra July 1, 2009
The story of tea : a cultural history and drinking guide / Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss July 1, 2009
Solar system astrophysics / Eugene F. Milone and William J.F. Wilson July 1, 2009
The haunted observatory : curiosities from the astronomer's cabinet / Richard Baum July 1, 2009
Women in science : a social and cultural history / Ruth Watts July 1, 2009
Apollo's fire : igniting America's clean-energy economy / Jay Inslee, Bracken Hendricks; foreword by Bill Clinton July 1, 2009
Nanoethics : the ethical and social implications of nanotechnology/ edited by Fritz Allhoff ... [et al.] July 1, 2009
The transit of Venus enterprise in Victorian Britain / by Jessica Ratcliff July 1, 2009
People and the sky : our ancestors and the cosmos / by Anthony Aveni July 1, 2009
Quantum mechanics : its early development and the road to entanglement / Edward G. Steward ; with a contribution by Sara M. McMurry July 1, 2009
Introduction to classical mechanics : with problems and solutions / David Morin July 1, 2009
Maxwell's equations and the principles of electromagnetism / Richard Fitzpatrick July 1, 2009
Innovation in astronomy education / [edited by] Jay M. Pasachoff, Rosa M. Ros, Naomi Pasachoff July 1, 2009
The politics of excellence : behind the Nobel Prize in science / Robert Marc Friedman July 1, 2009
Innovate like Edison : the success system of America's greatest inventor / Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott July 1, 2009
Reinventing gravity : a physicist goes beyond Einstein / John W. Moffat July 1, 2009
Galileo's glassworks : the telescope and the mirror / Eileen Reeves July 1, 2009
Nanoconvergence : the unity of nanoscience, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science / William Sims Bainbridge July 1, 2009
Keep watching the skies! : the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the space age / W. Patrick McCray July 1, 2009
Color ordered : a survey of color order systems from antiquity to the present / Rolf G. Kuehni and Andreas Schwarz July 1, 2009
Beyond UFOs : the search for extraterrestrial life and its astonishing implications for our future / Jeffrey Bennett July 1, 2009
Cosmology / Steven Weinberg July 1, 2009
Cosmological enigmas : pulsars, quasars, & other deep-space questions / Mark Kidger July 1, 2009
Cosmic anger : Abdus Salam - the first Muslim Nobel scientist / by Gordon Fraser July 1, 2009
Secrets of the hoary deep : a personal history of modern astronomy / Riccardo Giacconi July 1, 2009
Kelvin : life, labours and legacy / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker July 1, 2009
Gendered innovations in science and engineering / edited by Londa Schiebinger July 1, 2009
Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy, and culture / Alan Sokal July 1, 2009
Creating effective undergraduate research programs in science : the transformation from student to scientist / edited by Roman Taraban and Richard L. Blanton July 1, 2009
Totality : eclipses of the sun / Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, Ken Willcox July 1, 2009
The solar system beyond Neptune / edited by M. Antonietta Barucci ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of Renâee Dotson ; with 101 collaborating authors July 1, 2009
An introduction to nuclear astrophysics / Richard N. Boyd July 1, 2009
James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner July 1, 2009
Science in the marketplace : nineteenth-century sites and experiences / edited by Aileen Fyfe & Bernard Lightman July 1, 2009
Innovation nation : science and technology in 21st century Japan / Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates July 1, 2009
Practical mystic : religion, science, and A.S. Eddington / Matthew Stanley July 1, 2009
The Manhattan project : the birth of the atomic bomb in the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians / edited by Cynthia C. Kelly ; introduced by Richard Rhodes July 1, 2009
Technology in postwar America : a history / Carroll Pursell July 1, 2009
The materials physics companion / A.C. Fischer-Cripps July 1, 2009
Creating scientific concepts / Nancy Nersessian July 1, 2009
Ending the science wars / John D. Baldwin July 1, 2009
Cogent science in context : the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas / William Rehg July 1, 2009
Women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics : upping the numbers / edited by Ronald J. Burke, Mary C. Mattis July 1, 2009
Global catastrophes and trends : the next 50 years / Vaclav Smil July 1, 2009
Women in science, engineering and technology : three decades of UK initiatives / Alison Phipps July 1, 2009
Energy in nature and society : general energetics of complex systems / Vaclav Smil July 1, 2009
Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time / edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset July 1, 2009
The writings of Charles de Koninck / edited and translated by Ralph McInerny ; with a biography by Thomas de Koninck ; and an introduction by Leslie Armour July 1, 2009
Annual review of energy and the environment / AR January 21, 2009
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