The Hot Zone
A Terrifying True Story
Written by Richard Preston
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: July 20, 1995
Price: $7.99
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this...
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The Female Brain
Written by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $15.00
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.
Now...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 6, 2003
Price: $12.99
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In
In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $16.99
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In
In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of...
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The Hot Zone
A Terrifying True Story
Written by Richard Preston
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2012
Price: $7.99
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this...
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Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Written by Michio Kaku
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.95
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of
Star Trek, Star Wars, and
Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what...
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Cosmos
Written by Carl Sagan
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1985
Price: $7.99
The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today's knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.
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God and the Atom
Written by Victor J. Stenger
Format: Hardcover, 300 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $25.00
This history of atomism, from Democritus to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, chronicles one of the most successful scientific hypotheses ever devised, making the case that in the final analysis, atoms and the void are all that exists. Originating separately in both ancient Greece and India, the concept of...
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Hallucinations
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $26.95
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?
Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines...
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