A Short History of Nearly Everything
Written by Bill Bryson
Read by Bill Bryson
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 6, 2003
Price: $14.98
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 Hidden Reality
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Written by Brian Greene
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Price: $12.99
From the best-selling author of
The Elegant Universe and
The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date—a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe?
There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in...
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UFOs
Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
Written by Leslie Kean
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $25.99
An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of a...
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The Code Book
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Written by Simon Singh
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2000
Price: $16.95
In his first book since the bestselling
Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who...
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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: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $11.99
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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The Demon in the Freezer
A True Story
Written by Richard Preston
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $7.99
“The bard of biological weapons captures
the drama of the front lines.”-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy
The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In...
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Written by Annalee Newitz
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $26.95
In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it?...
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The Beak of the Finch
A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Written by Jonathan Weiner
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 30, 1995
Price: $16.00
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeOn a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches...
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