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Echoes from the Operating Room: Vignettes in Surgical History

By: Boyd MD, Carl R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Trafford Publishing: January 2013

Seller ID: 133929

ISBN: 1466977558

Condition: Used - Good

Every day in every operating room, the same names are spoken over and over again. These names are the names of the great surgical innovators and teachers of the past. Surgeons call out for Kocher clamps and Deaver retractors. They perform Billroth gastric resections and Bassini hernia repairs. Those names have echoed from the sterile environments of operating rooms for over a hundred years. In Echoes from the Operating Room, Dr. Boyd tells the stories of the principal events and great men of surgery and science and their accomplishments in a concise and compelling style. From the sad story of ...
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The Origin of Species (Collins Classics)

By: Darwin, Professor Charles

Price: $2.90

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: October 2011

Seller ID: 139248

ISBN: 0007902239

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This is a republication of one of the most important books ever published, and a continuing source of controversy a century and a half later - Darwin's 'On The Origin of Species'.
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Why Geography Matters: More Than Ever

By: de Blij, Harm

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 2012

Seller ID: 134394

ISBN: 0199913749

Condition: Used - Good

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system. Is there some way we can get our minds around these disparate global upheavals, to grasp these events and their interconnections, and place our turbulent world in a more understandable light?...
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The Hidden Messages in Water

By: Emoto, Masaru

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Atria Books: September 2005

Seller ID: 130225

ISBN: 0743289803

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this New York Times bestseller, internationally renowned Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto shows how the influence of our thoughts, words and feelings on molecules of water can positively impact the earth and our personal health.

This book has the potential to profoundly transform your world view. Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto discovered that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward them. He found that water from clear springs and water that has been exposed to loving words shows brilliant...
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Backyard Ballistics : Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices

By: GURSTELLE, WILLIAM

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Independent Pub Group: June 2001

Seller ID: 130223

ISBN: 1556523750

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple a match-powered rocket to the more complex a scale-model, table-top catapult to the offbeat a tennis ball cannon. With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting, explains the physics behind the projects, and profiles scientists and extraordinary experimenters such as Alfred Nobel, Robert Go...
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The Grand Energy Transition: The Rise of Energy Gases, Sustainable Life and Growth, and the Next Great Economic Expansion

By: Hefner III, Robert A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Wiley: September 2009

Seller ID: 130413

ISBN: 0470527560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A groundbreaking book on solving our growing energy problems

In this visionary book, leading energy industry executive Robert Hefner puts forth a convincing case about how the world can move beyond its current dependence on oil and toward a new era of clean, renewable energy.

Written with the knowledge and authority of a major player in this industry, Hefner relates how misguided government policies and vested industry interests have contributed to our current energy problems and proposes a variety of measures that could encourage the use of natural gas, solar, wind, and hydro...
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Mathematics and Optimal Form (Scientific American Library)

By: Hildebrandt, Stefan,Tromba, Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W H Freeman & Co: August 1986

Seller ID: 130224

ISBN: 0716750090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maddie on Things: A Super Serious Project About Dogs and Physics

By: Humphrey, Theron

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books: March 2013

Seller ID: 133979

ISBN: 1452115567

Condition: Used - Good

Maddie is a sweet-tempered coonhound who accompanied her owner, Theron, on a yearlong, cross-country trip while he worked on a photojournalism project. In his spare time, Theron took photos of Maddie doing what she does best: standing on things. From bicycles to giant watermelons to horses to people, there really isn't anything that Maddie won't stand on with grace and patience. The poignant Instagram photos of this beautiful dog and her offbeat poses have captured the imagination of all those who long for a road trip with a good dog for company. Maddie on Things celebrates the strang...
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

By: Kaku, Michio

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: February 2015

Seller ID: 129967

ISBN: 0307473341

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Michio Kaku, the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.

The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific tour de force unveils the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world--all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics--including recent experiments in telepathy, mind control, avatars...
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Color Atlas of Human Anatomy

By: McMinn, R. M. H.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Year Book Medical Pub: June 1977

Seller ID: 139171

ISBN: 0815158238

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Joseph Banks: A Life

By: O'Brian, Patrick

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 134210

ISBN: 0226616282

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its finest. Published to rave reviews, it reveals Banks to be a man of enduring importance, and establishes itself as a classic of exploration.

"It is in his description of that arduous three-year voyage on the ship Endeavor] that Mr. O'Brian is at his most brilliant. . . . He makes us understand what life within this wooden world was like, with...
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Browser's Book of Beginnings: Origins of Everything Under, and Including, the Sun

By: Panati, Charles

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: June 1984

Seller ID: 131485

ISBN: 0395360994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures

By: Piper, Ross

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: November 2013

Seller ID: 138403

ISBN: 0500516960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

What is perhaps more surprising is that this bewildering range of animal species are all offshoots from a relatively small number of lineages, sharing a common body plan and evolutionary history. Animal Earth not only provides an even-handed summary of each, but reflects the latest research on the evolutionary relationships between species. How they all fit on the "tree of life" is a topic that has been debated for decades, not least because new species are being discovered all the time; some lesser-known lineages, such as Chaetognatha (arrow worms) and Xenoturbelli...
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The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales

By: Sacks, Oliver W.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1987

Seller ID: 133931

ISBN: 0060970790

Condition: Used - Good

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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

By: Shubin, Neil

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: January 2009

Seller ID: 130392

ISBN: 0307277453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. The basis for the PBS series.
By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest--enlightening, acce...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Skloot, Rebecca

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Broadway: March 2011

Seller ID: 135146

ISBN: 1400052181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now an HBO(R) Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the c...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Skloot, Rebecca

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Broadway: March 2011

Seller ID: 135442

ISBN: 1400052181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now an HBO(R) Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without her knowledge in 1951--became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the c...
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Natural Gas in Nontechnical Language

By: Technology, Institute of Gas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: PennWell Corp.: January 1999

Seller ID: 130415

ISBN: 0878147381

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Based on educational material from the Institute of Gas Technology, this new nontechnical guide to the natural gas industry provides a balanced overview of the natural gas process from wellhead to burnertip, from exploration to end usage, while briefly addressing futures trends, resources, and supply and demand. Readers will gain a general understanding of natural gas history and uses, exploration techniques, production and treating, pipelines, storage, transportation and marketing, economic and contractual uses, and regulatory issues.
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The Oddities of Time

By: Ward, Erwin C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thomson-Shore: August 2001

Seller ID: 130486

ISBN: 0971242402

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: *Science