Scientists, Academics & Inventors

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	AN ANCIENT AIR: A Biography of John Stringfellow of Chard, the Victorian Aeronautical Pioneer. By Harald Penrose. Remainder Item #2403633 Our Price $4.95

	A BRIEF GUIDE TO CHARLES DARWIN: His Life and Times. By Cyril Aydon. Remainder Item #3381129 Pub at $13.95 - Our Price $4.95

	A BRILLIANT DARKNESS: The Extraordinary Life and Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age. By Joao Magueijo. Remainder Item #2600781 Pub at $27.50 - Our Price $4.95

	DA VINCI FOR DUMMIES. By Jessica Teisch with T. Barr. Remainder Item #2400316 Pub at $19.99 - Our Price $6.95

	DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race. By Wayne Biddle. Remainder Item #2633892 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $6.95

	DARWIN: A Life in Poems. By Ruth Padel. Remainder Item #3338185 Pub at $26.00 - Our Price $4.95

	EINSTEIN & CULTURE. By Gerhard Sonnert. Remainder Item #3480259 Pub at $28.98 - Our Price $4.95

	THE END OF THE CERTAIN WORLD: The Life and Science of Max Born. By Nancy Thorndike Greenspan. Remainder Item #3479781 Our Price $7.95

	ETIENNE-JULES MAREY: A Passion for the Trace. By Francois Dagognet. Remainder Item #3447561 Pub at $42.95 - Our Price $14.95

	THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF JOSEF GANZ: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen. By Paul Schilperoord. Current Item #3489760 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $19.95

	THE FIRE OF HIS GENIUS: Robert Fulton and the American Dream. By Kirkpatrick Sale. Remainder Item #245419X Pub at $13.00 - Our Price $1.95

	A FORCE OF NATURE: Great Discoveries. By Richard Reeves. Remainder Item #7376928 Pub at $23.95 - Our Price $6.95

	GALILEO'S MISTAKE: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church. By Wade Rowland. Remainder Item #2496437 Pub at $26.95 - Our Price $3.95

	GENIUS ON THE EDGE: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted. By Gerald Imber. Remainder Item #3490769 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $8.95

	GLENN CURTISS: Pioneer of Aviation. By Alden Hatch. Current Item #7040229 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	GREGOR MENDEL: Planting the Seeds of Genetics. By Simon Mawer. Remainder Item #1765051 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $6.95

	JOSEPH HENRY: The Rise of an American Scientist. By Albert E. Moyer. Remainder Item #3440214 Pub at $49.95 - Our Price $7.95

	THE KNIFE MAN: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery. By Wendy Moore. Remainder Item #7377770 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $5.95

	A LIFE IN TWILIGHT: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer. By Mark Wolverton. Remainder Item #2404273 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $6.95

	A LIFE OF DISCOVERY: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution. By James Hamilton. Remainder Item #6250599 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $9.95

	THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. By Simon Winchester. Remainder Item #1756885 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. By Simon Winchester. This item is a CD. Remainder Item #3476006 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $7.95

	MARTIANS OF SCIENCE: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. By Istvan Hargittai. Remainder Item #1774301 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $6.95

	THE MERCHANT OF POWER: Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis. By John F. Wasik. Remainder Item #3333752 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $6.95

	MR. GATLING'S TERRIBLE MARVEL: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It. By Julia Keller. Remainder Item #1695851 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $6.95

	THE MURDER OF NIKOLAI VAVILOV: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century. By Peter Pringle. Remainder Item #2581388 Pub at $26.00 - Our Price $6.95

	NEWTON AND THE COUNTERFEITER: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist. By Thomas Levenson. Remainder Item #2659875 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $5.95

	NEWTON: Ackroyd's Brief Lives. By Peter Ackroyd. Remainder Item #2408724 Pub at $21.95 - Our Price $5.95

	OPPENHEIMER: Portrait of an Enigma. By Jeremy Bernstein. Remainder Item #338151X Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $5.95

	ORDINARY GENIUSES: Max Delbruck, George Gamow, and the Origins of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology. By Gino Segre. Current Item #3399222 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $18.95

	OTTMAR MERGENTHALER: The Man and His Machine. By Basil Kahan. Remainder Item #3427935 Pub at $55.00 - Our Price $5.95

	OVE ARUP: Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century. By Peter Jones. Remainder Item #240527X Pub at $50.00 - Our Price $9.95

	THE PEOPLE'S DOCTORS: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860. By John S. Haller, Jr. Remainder Item #2607689 Pub at $49.95 - Our Price $9.95

	PRODIGAL GENIUS: The Life of Nikola Tesla. By John J. O'Neill. Current Item #1664921 Pub at $18.95 - Our Price $13.95

	QUANTUM MAN: Richard Feynman's Life in Science--Great Discoveries. By Lawrence M. Krauss. Current Item #2593319 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $16.95

	RACHEL CARSON: Witness for Nature. By Linda Lear. Remainder Item #2510820 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $5.95

	RELUCTANT GENIUS: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention. By Charlotte Gray. Remainder Item #2496585 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $2.95

	THE RELUCTANT MR. DARWIN: Great Discoveries. By David Quammen. Remainder Item #1672606 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE SCIENCE OF LEONARDO: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance. By Fritjof Capra. Remainder Item #3394190 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $5.95

	THE SCIENTISTS: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors. By John Gribbin. Current Item #7219075 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $12.95

	SPIRIT AND CREATOR: The Mysterious Man Behind Lindbergh's Flight to Paris. By Nova Hall. Remainder Item #2573784 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $5.95

	SPLENDIDLY UNREASONABLE INVENTORS: The Lives, Loves and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World. By Jeremy Coller with C. Chamberlain. Remainder Item #344788X Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $5.95

	STEPHEN FORBES AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN ECOLOGY. By Robert A. Croker. Remainder Item #2446758 Pub at $39.95 - Our Price $7.95

	STEPHEN HAWKING. By Kristine Larsen. Remainder Item #3344614 Pub at $17.98 - Our Price $5.95

	THE STRANGEST MAN: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom. By Graham Farmelo. Remainder Item #3464482 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $7.95

	TESLA: Man Out of Time. By Margaret Cheney. Current Item #6168841 Pub at $16.00 - Our Price $10.95