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Eminent historian Johnson provides a rich, succinct portrait of Charles Darwin. Marked by the insightful observation, spectacular wit, and highly readable prose, Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus.
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In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet... [ More...]
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1. As you read this memoir, did you begin to feel as if you knew the people involved? Did you like them? Do you think you’d have been happy to live in Coalwood in the late 1950’s? If you had, what position in it would you have wanted? ... [ More...]
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This immensely engaging tale relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity—and a future—to his family.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears,... [ More...]
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Now back in paperback comes the fascinating portrait of Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant scientists and inventors of the 20th century, from the impact of his seminal accomplishments to the eccentricities and obsessions of the man behind the science.... [ More...]
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Nikola Tesla, credited by many as the inspiration for radios, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. "Wizard" is the definitive biography of this founding father of modern technology. of photos.
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From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available—a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.
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