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Circles : Fifty Round Trips Through History Technology Science Culture
James Burke
Paperback - $23.95
Burke takes readers on 50 surprising journeys through the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events that ends precisely where it began.
The Knowledge Web : From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge
James Burke
Paperback - $23.95
Applying his trademark approach to making connections among seemingly unrelated things and events, the bestselling author of "Connections" and "The Day the Universe Changed" explores the interlocking threads of knowledge and information that underlie ...
Twin Tracks : The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World
James Burke
Paperback - $33.95
"One of the most intriguing minds in the Western World" ("The Washington Post") delivers a landmark book of real-world stories that contends with the nature of change and divines as never before the unlikely origins of many aspects of contemporary li ...
Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2
Robert Belle Burke
Paperback - $57.95
Volume two of a two volume set. (This description is for both volumes.) Contains much of Bacon's principle writings in mathematics, optics, experimental science, and philosophy. Bacon is regarded as the first modern scientist. This is one of his majo ...
Patterns of Behavior : Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology
Jr. JR. Burkhardt
Paperback - $63.95
It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what was known in the field was based primarily on specimens that had long before taken their last breaths. ...
This New Ocean : The Story of the First Space Age
William E. Burrows
Paperback - $32.95
It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond.
The ...
Magic, Mystery, and Science : The Occult in Western Civilization
Dan Burton
Paperback - $47.95
The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed ...
