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Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse (Graywolf Forum)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Graywolf Press: August 1996

Seller ID: 6349

ISBN: 1555972489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When the great Russian writer Tolstoy was first offered the use of a brand new invention called the Dictaphone, he refused it, saying that it was sure to be "too dreadfully exciting" and would distract him from his literary endeavors.

For this provocative launch of the Graywolf Forum series, Sven Birkerts invited a number of literary writers to tell him how they were reacting to the technological innovatios of our day. Do the "dreadful excitements" promised by a digital future cause us to forfeit our time-honored cultural traditions for dubious gain? Or will the electronic millennium ...
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Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World

By: N/A

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: November 2012

Seller ID: 52710

ISBN: 0316208191

Condition: Used - Good

365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of "Wired" Magazine.
On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane "black box" made its maiden voyage (1953). And what about today? Every day of the year has a rich scientific and technological heritage just waiting to be uncovered, and "Wired"'s top-flight science-trivia book MAD SCIENCE collects them chronologically, from New Year's Day to year's end, showing just h...
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Outwitting Critters

By: Adler Jr., Bill

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Lyons Press: January 1997

Seller ID: 37988

ISBN: 1558215239

Condition: Used - Good

A humane manual for outwitting unwelcome household guests of all kinds, from skunks to skinks.
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The Timeless Way of Building

By: Alexander, Christopher

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1979

Seller ID: 52689

ISBN: 0195024028

Condition: Used - Good

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.

Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.

The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the Cent...
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

By: Alexander, Christopher,Ishikawa, Sara,Silverstein, Murray,Jacobson, Max,Fiksdahl-King, Ingrid,Angel, Shlomo

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1977

Seller ID: 52707

ISBN: 0195019199

Condition: Used - Good

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.

After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we ...
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Sniffy the Virtual Rat Lite, Version 3.0 (with CD-ROM)

By: Alloway, Tom, Wilson, Greg, Graham, Jeff

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing: March 2011

Seller ID: 21971

ISBN: 1111726175

Condition: Used - Good

Bring the theories of learning to life using SNIFFY, THE VIRTUAL RAT Instructors praise Sniffy, a realistic digital rat in an operant chamber (Skinner Box), for his ability to give students hands-on experience in setting up and conducting experiments that demonstrate the phenomena of classical and operant conditioning. Users begin by training Sniffy to press a bar to obtain food. Then they progress to studies of more complex learning phenomena. Throughout each, a series of "Mind Windows" enables students to visualize how Sniffy's experiences in the chamber produce the psychological changes th...
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The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the World

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $16.75

Publisher: Weybright and Talley: January 1975

Seller ID: 51191

ISBN: 0679401237

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Life on Earth A natural history

By: Attenborough, David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Collins: January 1979

Seller ID: 51238

ISBN: 0002190915

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Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics

By: Banks, Robert B.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: July 2002

Seller ID: 22038

ISBN: 0691102856

Condition: Used - Good

Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fun to ponder in themselves--such as the best way to score Olympic events.

Here Robert Banks presents a wide range of musings, both practical and entertaining, that have intrigued him and others: How tall can one grow? Why do we get stuck in traffic? Which football player would have a be...
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Basher Science: Chemistry: Getting a Big Reaction

By: Basher, Simon, Green, Dan

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Kingfisher: July 2010

Seller ID: 4178

ISBN: 0753464136

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Basher Science: Chemistry, Getting a Big Reaction created and illustrated by Simon Basher, Written by Dan Green:

Discover the secrets of chemistry, and learn about the properties of matter and the ways in which they interact, combine and change. Chemistry is a compelling guide to a community of characters who make up everything around us.

Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Animal Fact Finder

By: Benton, Dr. Michael

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Kingfisher: August 1993

Seller ID: 59411

ISBN: 1856978028

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The answer to the young dinosaur lover's prayers, this full-color reference covers the spectrum of dinosaurs from A to Z and shows each dinosaur's height relative to a prehistoric human. Children will spend hours poring over this authoritative guide to over 200 fantastic creatures that once roamed the Earth.
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New Handbook of the Heavens Revised Edition VIII

By: Bermjard, Hubert J.; Bennett, Dorothy A.; Rice, Hugh s.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1948

Seller ID: 2392

ISBN: 281BQL1000166

Condition: Used - Good

Missing Microbes: How The Overuse Of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our M

By: Blaser, Martin

Price: $15.50

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: April 2014

Seller ID: 52937

ISBN: 1443420239

Condition: Used - Good

Stargazer's Companion

By: Blum, James K.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Bdd Promotional Book Co: November 1990

Seller ID: 12586

ISBN: 0792452623

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Our Earth (Family Reference)

By: Books, Parragon

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Parragon Books: April 2013

Seller ID: 54512

ISBN: 1472311329

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Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food

By: Boyens, Ingeborg

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Doubleday Canada: February 2000

Seller ID: 24100

ISBN: 0385257899

Condition: Used - Good

Do you know what you're eating? Do you know what you're feeding your children? Chances are, the last time you visited the grocery store, you unwittingly purchased foodstuffs that have been genetically altered. That means you've become part of a grand, yet alarming experiment on food and humans, being carried out on a global scale by powerful biotech companies. And no one, including the scientists and the governments who are giving them the go-ahead, knows the long-term effects of genetically modified foods.

In Unnatural Harvest, Ingeborg Boyens presents the startling implica...
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Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA

By: Bragg, Melvyn

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: January 1998

Seller ID: 32248

ISBN: 0340712597

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Dead Mars, Dying Earth

By: Brandenburg, John E.; Paxon, Monica Rix

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Crossing Press: March 2000

Seller ID: 55239

ISBN: 1580910661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It could happen here, warn physicist and Mars expert Brandenburg and science writer Paxson they find the alarming rise of asthma in young children to be only the beginning effects of an irrevocable climatic collapse driven by global warming that will sentence life on Earth to the same extinction suffered by life on Mars.
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You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves

By: Bray, Hiawatha

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Basic Books: April 2014

Seller ID: 25569

ISBN: 0465032850

Condition: Used - Good

The story of the rise of modern navigation technology, from radio location to GPS-and the consequent decline of privacy

What does it mean to never get lost? You Are Here examines the rise of our technologically aided era of navigational omniscience-or how we came to know exactly where we are at all times. In a sweeping history of the development of location technology in the past century, Bray shows how radio signals created to carry telegraph messages were transformed into invisible beacons to guide ships and how a set of rapidly-spinning wheels steered submarines beneath th...
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Rocks and Minerals

By: Brian Simpson

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Pergamon Press: January 1966

Seller ID: 33110

ISBN: 0080117449

Condition: Used - Good

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