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King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maveric
Author: G. Wayne Miller
G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, mad...more
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Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conques
Author: Jeffrey Kluger
The riveting story of one of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the twentieth century, from the co-author of the #1 New York Times best seller ...more
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: Charles Darwin and
Author: David Quammen
In September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural selection" among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptat...more
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Noble Obsession: The Race to Unlock the Great
Author: Charles Slack
Like crude oil, cotton, and plutonium, rubber is on the short list of raw materials that suddenly yielded transformative commercial benefits. The turning point ...more
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The Coalwood Way
Author: Homer Hickam
It's Fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching hand-built rockets that soar thousand...more
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy
Author: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sher
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a t...more
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In the Shadow of Fame: A Memoir by the Daught
Author: Sue Erikson Bloland
In the Shadow of Fame, by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst and theorist Erik Erikson, is the intimate story of her struggle to come to terms w...more
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My Life with the Chimpanzees
Author: Jane Goodall
From the time Jane Goodall was a girl, she dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Her earliest fascination with animals inspired her to hide in a henhous...more
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The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-
Author: Richard Feynman
In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses severa...more
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Fu
Author: Richard P. Feynman
One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the story...more
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The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Cap
Author: James Shreeve
The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern sci...more
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Jung: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Anthony Stevens
Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prev...more
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Unabridge
Author: Richard P. Feynman
With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" ...more
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Einstein: His Life and Universe (Unabridged)
Author: Walter Isaacson
How did Einstein's mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his persona...more
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn
Author: Michael Hiltzik
Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC - a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation ...more
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A Life Decoded: My Genome - My Life (Unabridg
Author: J. Craig Venter
Growing up in California, J. Craig Venter didn't appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being dra...more
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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Explo
Author: Jacques Cousteau, Susan Sch
Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth.Explorer, diving pione...more
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eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Ca
Author: Randall E. Stross
The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, W...more
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The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (Unabridged)
Author: Alan Deutschman
From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist - an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the bi...more
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop (Unabridged)
Author: Alan Cutler
This is the story of a seventeenth-century scientist-turned-priest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and created a new field of science. It ...more
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