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Victor K. McElheny
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The inventions of Edwin Land made Polaroid a great company--and later accelerated its decline. Insisting on the Impossible, written by former New York Times reporter Victor K. McElheny, tells the story of one of the early giants in photogra
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Temple Grandin, Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Sacks calls Temple Grandin's first book--and the first picture of autism from the inside--"quite extraordinary, unprecedented and, in a way, unthinkable." Sacks told part of her story in his
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Albert Einstein
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The Quotable Einstein is a complete compendium of quotes from the great physicist, organized thematically, usefully indexed, and thorough in its inclusion and documentation of attributed material, sources, and dates. As a resource for the Einstein
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Stephen Jay Gould
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One of this century's most thoughtful and prolific naturalists, Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould looks at the human twists on science in his eighth series of essays taken from Natural History magazine. As only he can, Gould finds questions wher
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William Dunham
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In Journey through Genius, author William Dunham strikes an extraordinary balance between the historical and technical. He devotes each chapter to a principal result of mathematics, such as the solution of the cubic series and the divergence of th
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Carl Gustav Jung, Michael York (Narrator)
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An autobiography put together from conversations, writings and lectures with Jung's cooperation, at the end of his life.
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Joseph Schwartz, Michael McGuinness
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One of the first in the series of For Beginners documentary comic books, Einstein for Beginners still holds up as a perfect introduction to the life and work of Albert Einstein. It has been said that only a small percentage of people really
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Paul Hoffman
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Paul Erdös was an amazing and prolific mathematician whose life as a world-wandering numerical nomad was legendary. He published almost 1500 scholarly papers before his death in 1996, and he probably thought more about math problems than anyone in h
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Bruce Schechter
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Physicist and science writer Bruce Schechter's biography of legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös is an engaging portrait, warm and intimate, bringing this strange, happy man to life. Schechter's focus is quite a bit tighter, and more traditi
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Edward Hutchings
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A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller
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Dava Sobel
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Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know h
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Albert Einstein
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A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as
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George Johnson
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Murray Gell-Mann is a leading light in 20th-century physics, yet his name rings bells only for those interested in particle physics. Science writer George Johnson was fortunate enough to develop a friendly relationship with the great scientist, and his b
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The Textual Life of the Savants Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Textual Life of the Savants Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Derelict Genius of Martin M Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Doctor Genius and the Mad Scientists: The Flask of Doom Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Bix Beiderbecke: Jazz Age Genius Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs: A Tale of Childhood and Genius Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Book of Miracles: A Young Person's Guide to Jewish Spiritual Awareness: For Parents to Read to Their Children, for Children to Read to Their Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Book of Country Music Wisdom: Common Sense and Uncommon Genius from 101 Country Music Greats Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Albert Einstein: Physicist and Genius Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Awaken the Genius: Mind Technology for the 21st Century Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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The Arena Chapel and the Genius of Giotto: Padua Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Genius & Savants
(1513) Extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity. Savants - (1927) Person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else