Science & Invention

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	THE 100 GREATEST INVENTIONS OF ALL TIME: A Ranking Past and Present. By Tom Philbin. Remainder Item #2435446 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $4.95

	1800 MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS, DEVICES AND APPLIANCES, SIXTEENTH EDITION. By Gardner D. Hiscox. Current Item #1636081 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $12.95

	AN ACRE OF GLASS: A History and Forecast of the Telescope. By J.B. Zirker. Remainder Item #2457946 Pub at $30.00 - Our Price $7.95

	THE AGE OF AUTISM: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic. By D. Olmsted & M. Blaxill. Remainder Item #3415589 Pub at $27.99 - Our Price $6.95

	AIMING FOR THE STARS: The Dreamers and Doers of the Space Age. By Tom D. Crouch. Remainder Item #3476235 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

	ALADDIN'S LAMP: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World. By John Freely. Remainder Item #2529599 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $5.95

	ASLEEP: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries. By Molly Caldwell Crosby. Remainder Item #2435578 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $4.95

	BANANA: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. By Dan Koeppel. Remainder Item #2602091 Pub at $23.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE BATTERY: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution. By Henry Schlesinger. Remainder Item #2606585 Pub at $25.99 - Our Price $5.95

	BEFORE THE FALLOUT: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. By Diana Preston. Remainder Item #3390659 Pub at $27.00 - Our Price $2.95

	THE BICYCLE: The Myth and the Passion. By Francesco Baroni. Remainder Item #2453568 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $17.95

	THE BIG BANG: A History of Explosives. By G.I. Brown. Remainder Item #3483436 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $6.95

	THE BIG IDEA: How Breakthroughs of the Past Shape the Future. Edited By Bridget A. English et al. Current Item #3408361 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $24.95

	THE BLACK DEATH. By Sean Martin. Remainder Item #1621513 Our Price $3.95

	BOILERPLATE: History's Mechanical Marvel. By P. Guinan & A. Bennett. Current Item #337811X Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $16.95

	BOTTLED LIGHTNING: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy. By Seth Fletcher. Current Item #264987X Pub at $26.00 - Our Price $16.95

	BREAKTHROUGH: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle. By T. Cooper & A. Ainsberg. Remainder Item #336500X Pub at $24.99 - Our Price $6.95

	BRILLIANT! Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology. By Bob Johnstone. Remainder Item #1644769 Pub at $28.00 - Our Price $3.95

	BRILLIANT: The Evolution of Artificial Light. By Jane Brox. Remainder Item #3373045 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $6.95

	CALEDONIA DREAMING. By John K.V. Eunson. Current Item #3346919 Pub at $22.95 - Our Price $16.95

	CAT FLAPS AND MOUSETRAPS. By Harry Oliver. Remainder Item #265959X Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

	DA VINCI & THE HANDGUN: History Made Every Day. This item is a DVD. Remainder Item #1774611 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE DARWIN EXPERIENCE: The Story of the Man and His Theory of Evolution. By John van Wyhe. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #1794116 Pub at $50.00 - Our Price $14.95

	DARWIN'S NOTEBOOK: The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin. By Jonathan Clements. Remainder Item #2644347 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $4.95

	DARWIN'S SACRED CAUSE: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution. By A. Desmond & J. Moore. Remainder Item #2599910 Pub at $30.00 - Our Price $6.95

	DECODING THE HEAVENS: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets. By Jo Marchant. Remainder Item #2462680 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $5.95

	THE DEPARTMENT OF MAD SCIENTISTS: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs. By Michael Belfiore. Remainder Item #2551357 Pub at $26.99 - Our Price $5.95

	DID THOMAS CRAPPER REALLY INVENT THE TOILET? Inventions That Changed Our Homes and Our Lives. By Catherine O'Reilly. Remainder Item #7433034 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	DIFFERENT ENGINES: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science. By M.L. Brake & N. Hook. Remainder Item #3333442 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE DISAPPEARING SPOON: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. By Sam Kean. Current Item #2397447 Pub at $24.99 - Our Price $16.95

	THE DISAPPEARING SPOON: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. By Sam Kean. Current Item #3336379 Pub at $14.99 - Our Price $9.95

	THE DISCOVERERS. By Daniel J. Boorstin. Remainder Item #2466619 Pub at $18.95 - Our Price $5.95

	DISCOVERIES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. By Rodney Castleden. Remainder Item #1666223 Our Price $3.95

	DOCTORS: The Biography of Medicine. By Sherwin B. Nuland. Remainder Item #2553791 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

	DOCTORS: The Illustrated History of Medical Pioneers. By Sherwin B. Nuland. Remainder Item #1642200 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $9.95

	THE ESSENCE OF PERFUME. By Roja Dove. Remainder Item #2633027 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $9.95

	THE EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS. By Henry Petroski. Remainder Item #2534711 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE EXTRAORDINARY CATALOG OF PECULIAR INVENTIONS. By Julia Suits. Current Item #3450988 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $11.95

	THE FIRST WAR OF PHYSICS: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949. By Jim Baggott. Current Item #336805X Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $12.95

	FUTURE PROOF: The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined. By Nick Sagan et al. Remainder Item #2372673 Our Price $4.95

	GADGET NATION: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention. By Steve Greenberg. Remainder Item #2449587 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $2.95

	GUILLOTINE: Its Legend and Lore. By Daniel Gerould. Current Item #2440504 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $7.95

	GUNPOWDER: A History of the Explosive That Changed the World. By Jack Kelly. Remainder Item #1667823 Our Price $5.95

	HIROSHIMA: The World's Bomb. By Andrew J. Rotter. Remainder Item #1770330 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE HISTORY OF ROAD BUILDING EQUIPMENT: The Classic Construction Series. By Francis Pierre. Remainder Item #3449386 Our Price $14.95

	A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS: From the Handaxe to the Credit Card. By Neil MacGregor. Current Item #3448967 Pub at $45.00 - Our Price $29.95

	HOPE IN HELL: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders. By Dan Bortolotti. Remainder Item #2385449 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $5.95

	HOW WILLIAM SHATNER CHANGED THE WORLD. This item is a DVD. Remainder Item #3452794 Our Price $3.95

	HOW TO MELLIFY A CORPSE: And Other Human Stories of Ancient Science & Superstition. By Vicki Leon. Remainder Item #3347761 Pub at $17.00 - Our Price $5.95

	THE ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE OF INVENTIONS: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures. By Craig Sandler. Remainder Item #2444038 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $3.95

	INDIGO: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World. By Catherine E. McKinley. Current Item #2649918 Pub at $27.00 - Our Price $16.95