{"title":"Scientist Biographies","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"einsteindefiant-geniusversusgeniusinthequantumrevolution","title":"Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist.\" -Albert Einstein\u003cbr\u003e\nA scandal hovers over the history of 20th century physics. Albert Einstein—the century's greatest physicist—was never able to come to terms with quantum mechanics, the century's greatest theoretical achievement. For physicists who routinely use both quantum laws and Einstein's ideas, this contradiction can be almost too embarrassing to dwell on. Yet Einstein was one of the founders of quantum physics and he spent many years preaching the quantum's importance and its revolutionary nature.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Danish genius Neils Bohr was another founder of quantum physics. He had managed to solve one of the few physics problems that Einstein ever shied away from, linking quantum mathematics with a new model of the atom. This leap immediately yielded results that explained electron behavior and the periodic table of the elements.\u003cbr\u003e\nDespite their mutual appreciation of the quantum's importance, these two giants of modern physics never agreed on the fundamentals of their work. In fact, they clashed repeatedly throughout the 1920s, arguing first over Einstein's theory of \"light quanta\"(photons), then over Niels Bohr's short-lived theory that denied the conservation of energy at the quantum level, and climactically over the new quantum mechanics that Bohr enthusiastically embraced and Einstein stubbornly defied.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis contest of visions stripped the scientific imagination naked. Einstein was a staunch realist, demanding to know the physical reasons behind physical events. At odds with this approach was Bohr's more pragmatic perspective that favored theories that worked, even if he might not have a corresponding explanation of the underlying reality. Powerful and illuminating, Einstein Defiant is the first book to capture the soul and the science that inspired this dramatic duel, revealing the personalities and the passions—and, in the end, what was at stake for the world., ISBN13: 9780309089982 ISBN10: 0309089980 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46107796439203,"sku":"TN_STR_UBD_H00010VB","price":10.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/41t6FXHoOlL.jpg?v=1754536330"},{"product_id":"benjaminfranklinyalenotabenes","title":"Benjamin Franklin (Yale Nota Bene S)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Book Review Best Book Since 2000\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher’s Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever written.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“None rivals Morgan’s study for its grasp of Franklin’s character.”—Joseph J. Ellis, London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a bestselling author, the country’s first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies’ man, and a moralist—and the most prominent celebrity of the eighteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFranklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions, as Edmund Morgan demonstrates in this brilliant biography. A reluctant revolutionary, Franklin had desperately wished to preserve the British Empire, and he mourned the break even as he led the fight for American independence. Despite his passion for science, Franklin viewed his groundbreaking experiments as secondary to his civic duties. And although he helped to draft both the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution, he had personally hoped that the new American government would take a different shape. Unraveling the enigma of Franklin’s character, Morgan shows that he was the rare individual who consistently placed the public interest before his own desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by one of our greatest historians and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Benjamin Franklin offers a provocative portrait of America’s most extraordinary patriot., ISBN13: 9780300101621 ISBN10: 0300101627 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46107799388323,"sku":"TN_STR_UBD_H0000Z1S","price":14.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61ZefF_ClQL.jpg?v=1754536469"},{"product_id":"the-hockey-stick-illusion-climategate-and-the-corruption-of-science","title":"The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is the definitive exposé of the distorted science behind the iconic global warming graph centrally responsible for the global panic about climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Steve McIntyre's earliest attempts to reproduce the Michael Mann's Hockey Stick graph, to the explosive publication of his work and the launch of a congressional inquiry, The Hockey Stick Illusion is a remarkable tale of scientific misconduct and amateur sleuthing. It explains the complex science of this most controversial of temperature reconstructions in layperson's language and lays bare the remarkable extent to which climatologists have been willing to break their own rules in order to defend climate science's most famous finding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also covers the recent leak of the email archives of the Climatic Research Unit which has led to the resignation of its Director, Professor Phil Jones, and exposed the degree to which climate scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have hidden and manipulated data to support their claims., ISBN13: 9781906768355 ISBN10: 1906768358 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46111594447011,"sku":"A.19.5 F_04-18-25_ART_H00005ER","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61b7wWj1URL.jpg?v=1754631308"},{"product_id":"tesla-the-wizard-of-electricity-illustrated-lives","title":"Tesla: The Wizard of Electricity (Illustrated Lives)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho was Nikola Tesla? A visionary inventor? Eccentric genius? Outsider rebel? Now David Kent reveals the life, drama, and mystery surrounding the romantic figure. An immigrant from what is now Croatia, Tesla would move to America and go on to create groundbreaking inventions including some that would change the world. He even electrified visitors at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with an amazing never-before-seen electrical light display. Despite his successes, Tesla would become largely forgotten over the remaining dozen years of his life as others got credit for his remarkable scientific contributions. But after his death, he found renewed fame as the subject of conspiracy theories and as a pop culture idol. Through this fascinating book, you'll come to know the dashing man that continues to capture imaginations today., ISBN13: 9781435142978 ISBN10: 1435142977 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112197509283,"sku":"TN_STR_H00008TU","price":18.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/612h0DQBkgL.jpg?v=1754646836"},{"product_id":"the-brain-in-search-of-itself-santiago-ramon-y-cajal-and-the-story-of-the-neuron","title":"The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first major biography of the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind―illustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the pioneer of modern neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal may be the most influential figure in the history of biology you’ve never heard of. Along with Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur, Cajal ranks among the most brilliant and original scientists of the nineteenth century, and his discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton did for our conception of the physical universe. Cajal was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his lifelong investigation of the structure of neurons―“the mysterious butterflies of the soul,” he called them, “whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.” And he produced a dazzling oeuvre of anatomical drawings, whose otherworldly beauty conjured a vivid image of our mental life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Ehrlich’s The Brain in Search of Itself is the first major biography in English of this rare genius, who embarked on a scientific odyssey that mirrored the rocky journey of his beloved homeland of Spain into the twentieth century. Born into poverty in a mountaintop hamlet, Cajal was a willful and unruly child who at first struggled to live up to the expectations of his imperious father, a country doctor. A portrait of a nation as well as a biography, The Brain in Search of Itself follows Cajal from the hinterlands to Barcelona and Madrid, where he became an internationally celebrated figure, single-handedly raising the scientific reputation of Spain in the process. To momentous effect, Cajal demonstrated a truth that was as controversial in his own time as it is universal in ours: that the nervous system is composed of individual cells with distinctive roles, just like any other organ in the body. The Brain in Search of Itself is at once the story of how we arrived at our modern understanding of the brain and a finely wrought portrait of an individual as remarkable and complex as the subject to which he devoted his life., ISBN13: 9781250862907 ISBN10: 1250862906 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112266354851,"sku":"B7.19.7 F_PHR_07-04-25_H0000NLE","price":16.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/811RLOS3FzL.jpg?v=1754649975"},{"product_id":"archaeology-from-space-how-the-future-shapes-our-past","title":"Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of Archaeological Institute of America's Felicia A. Holton Book Award • Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 • A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 • A Science News Best Book of 2019 • Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A crash course in the amazing new science of space archaeology that only Sarah Parcak can give. This book will awaken the explorer in all of us.\" ?Chris Anderson, Head of TED\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNational Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak gives readers a personal tour of the evolution, major discoveries, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field’s biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world’s ancient treasures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eParcak has worked in twelve countries and four continents, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify thousands of previously unknown settlements, roads, fortresses, palaces, tombs, and even potential pyramids. From there, her stories take us back in time and across borders, into the day-to-day lives of ancient humans whose traits and genes we share. And she shows us that if we heed the lessons of the past, we can shape a vibrant future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes Illustrations, ISBN13: 9781250198280 ISBN10: 1250198283 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112276086947,"sku":"B2.35.4 F_06-12-25_H0000JN6","price":16.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/912YO9nlqBL.jpg?v=1754650182"},{"product_id":"zig-zag-and-swirl-alfred-w-lawsons-quest-for-greatness","title":"Zig-Zag-and-Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlfred W. Lawson (1869–1954) was a professional baseball player, inventor of the airliner, leader of a movement in the 1930s calling for the abolition of banks and interest, and founder of a utopian community, the so-called Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. This unusual institution, constantly embroiled in controversy in the 1940s and early 1950s, was dedicated not only to teaching Lawson’s novel religious and scientific ideas but also to initiating a reform of human nature., ISBN13: 9780877453123 ISBN10: 0877453128 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46114955526307,"sku":"A.31.4 F_05-02-25_ART_H00007RI","price":20.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/819nsToDBBL.jpg?v=1754735828"},{"product_id":"the-philosophical-breakfast-club-four-remarkable-friends-who-transformed-science-and-changed-the-world","title":"The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e“[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ —Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to talk about the state of science in Britain and the world at large. Inspired by the great 17th century scientific reformer and political figure Francis Bacon—another former student of Cambridge—the Philosophical Breakfast Club plotted to bring about a new scientific revolution. And to a remarkable extent, they succeeded, even in ways they never intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHistorian of science and philosopher Laura J. Snyderexposes the political passions, religious impulses, friendships, rivalries, and love of knowledge—and power—that drove these extraordinary men. Whewell (who not only invented the word “scientist,” but also founded the fields of crystallography, mathematical economics, and the science of tides), Babbage (a mathematical genius who invented the modern computer), Herschel (who mapped the skies of the Southern Hemisphere and contributed to the invention of photography), and Jones (a curate who shaped the science of economics) were at the vanguard of the modernization of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis absorbing narrative of people, science and ideaschronicles the intellectual revolution inaugurated by these men, one that continues to mold our understanding of the world around us and of our place within it. Drawing upon the voluminous correspondence between the four men over the fifty years of their work, Laura J. Snyder shows how friendship worked to spur the men on to greater accomplishments, and how it enabled them to transform science and help create the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The lives and works of these men come across as fit for Masterpiece Theatre.” —Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Snyder succeeds famously in evoking the excitement, variety and wide-open sense of possibility of the scientific life in 19th-century Britain...splendidly evoked in this engaging book.” —American Scientist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This fine book is as wide-ranging and anecdotal, as excited and exciting, as those long-ago Sunday morning conversations at Cambridge. The Philosophical Breakfast Club forms a natural successor to Jenny Uglow’s The Lunar Men...and Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder.” —Washington Post, ISBN13: 9780767930499 ISBN10: 0767930495 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124388352163,"sku":"NC-STR_UBD_H0000PVY","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91pXhzrvQ9L.jpg?v=1754807258"},{"product_id":"encounters-with-einstein","title":"Encounters with Einstein","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples., ISBN13: 9780691024332 ISBN10: 0691024332 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124543508643,"sku":"TN_STR_H0000AQK","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/71mLz74WvSL.jpg?v=1754811910"},{"product_id":"scott-of-the-antarctic","title":"Scott of the Antarctic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"What qualities does a man need in order to become a national hero? He must be a man of action; he must be brave; he must be bold; and it is a great advantage, if not a necessity, that he should die in the attempt to reach his goal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\nRobert Falcon Scott was such a man. He led the British Antarctic Expedition in 1911, failed by one month to be the first to plant his country's flag at the South Pole, and died on the return trip from the Pole, just 11 miles from food and shelter.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this biography, Huxley takes the view that far from being a glamorous explorer, Scott was a reluctant hero, a complex, obstinate and reticent man. \"His was the conquest of self,\" says Huxley, \"a feat perhaps more admirable than the conquest of the Pole.\", ISBN13: 9780689108617 ISBN10: 0689108613 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124547571875,"sku":"NC-STR_UBD_H0000R7V","price":10.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/41WF7s6pRdL.jpg?v=1754812237"},{"product_id":"discoveries-and-opinions-of-galileo","title":"Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo","description":"\u003cp\u003eDirecting his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of four of his most important writings. Drake's introductory essay place them in their biographical and historical context., ISBN13: 9780385092395 ISBN10: 0385092393 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124661899427,"sku":"NC-STR_UBD_H0000R70","price":10.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81smxUXOwnL.jpg?v=1754817835"},{"product_id":"nc-str_ubd_h0000nyk","title":"Margaret Mead: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraces the life and work of the controversial anthropologist whose ideas often enthralled the public while outraging her fellow scientists, ISBN13: 9780671252250 ISBN10: 0671252259 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124747423907,"sku":"NC-STR_UBD_H0000NYK","price":10.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61TFYA3dYzL.jpg?v=1754822419"},{"product_id":"a-8-7-f_04-03-25_art_h00003cr","title":"Chosen, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eA baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers, ISBN13: 9780671136741 ISBN10: 0671136747 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124749193379,"sku":"A.8.7 F_04-03-25_ART_H00003CR","price":36.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91mg02ORqxL.jpg?v=1754822547"},{"product_id":"ad-2-5-f_06-19-25_art_h0000bbf","title":"The Story Of Thomas Alva Edison","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelves into the life of the inventor Edison, recounting the joys, tragedies, and successes of his life, and explains the scientific principles behind his revolutionary work, ISBN13: 9780590424035 ISBN10: 0590424033 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124804472995,"sku":"AD.2.5 F_06-19-25_ART_H0000BBF","price":15.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61nioIjPg7L.jpg?v=1754825133"},{"product_id":"a-str_ubd_h0000q9u","title":"Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics","description":"Praise for William Dunham s Journey Through Genius The GreatTheorems of Mathematics \"Dunham deftly guides the reader throughthe verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questionsand proofs, conveying a splendid sense of how the greatestmathematicians from ancient to modern times presented theirarguments.\" Ivars Peterson Author, The Mathematical TouristMathematics and Physics Editor, Science News\n\n\"It is mathematics presented as a series of works of art; afascinating lingering over individual examples of ingenuity andinsight. It is mathematics by lightning flash.\" Isaac Asimov\n\n\"It is a captivating collection of essays of major mathematicalachievements brought to life by the personal and historicalanecdotes which the author has skillfully woven into the text. Thisis a book which should find its place on the bookshelf of anyoneinterested in science and the scientists who create it.\" R. L.Graham, AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories\n\n\"Come on a time-machine tour through 2,300 years in which Dunhamdrops in on some of the greatest mathematicians in history. Almostas if we chat over tea and crumpets, we get to know them and theirideas ideas that ring with eternity and that offer glimpses intothe often veiled beauty of mathematics and logic. And all the whilewe marvel, hoping that the tour will not stop.\" Jearl Walker,Physics Department, Cleveland State University Author of The FlyingCircus of Physics, ISBN13: 9780471500308 ISBN10: 0471500305 Material Type: hardcover","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124873482403,"sku":"A-STR_UBD_H0000Q9U","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/71YuqfLgOzL_44db3cca-ee78-4e5a-a0a1-24760f52ad1a.jpg?v=1754829300"},{"product_id":"tn_str_h00007wm","title":"Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians","description":"\u003cp\u003eA celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history's most important mathematicians, showing how they developed on each other's work and built the mathematics we use today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics from Archimedes to William Thurston, and learn about those too often left out of the cannon, such as Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the creator of algebra; Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer; and Emmy Noether, whose research on symmetry paved the way for modern physics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the evolution of mathematics over the course of two millennia, Significant Figures will educate and delight aspiring mathematicians and experts alike., ISBN13: 9780465096121 ISBN10: 0465096123 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124881805475,"sku":"TN_STR_H00007WM","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/51mARyjnuLL.jpg?v=1754829867"},{"product_id":"lindbergh-1","title":"Lindbergh","description":"\u003cp\u003eBestselling author and National Book Awardwinner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to be given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives--more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams of\u003cbr\u003e\nunpublished letters and diaries--and to be allowed freely to interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including his children and his widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The result is a brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth. From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found himself thrust on an odyssey for which he was ill-prepared--becoming the first modern media superstar, deified and demonized many times over in a single lifetime. Berg casts dramatic new light on the lonely, sometimes twisted childhood that formed the aviator's character; the astonishing transatlantic flight and thrilling, then overwhelming aftermath; the controversies surrounding the trial of his son's kidnapper, Lindbergh's fascination with Hitler's Germany and his leadership of America First; his remarkable unsung work in the fields of medical research, rocketry, anthropology, and conservation; and, at the heart of it all, his fascinating, complex marriage to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a relationship filled with sudden joy and bitter darkness. In all, it is a most compelling story of a most significant life--the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the man., ISBN13: 9780399144493 ISBN10: 0399144498 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46124949930147,"sku":"TN_STR_H000083H","price":11.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61cLqMkUJ6L_e2e21812-38bf-469f-bf50-8a3a7e45c235.jpg?v=1754833521"},{"product_id":"deke-u-s-manned-space-from-mercury-to-the-shuttle","title":"Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts--and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief of American Astronaut Corps. It was Deke Slayton who selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions. It was Deke Slayton who made Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeke! is Deke Slayton's' story--told in his own words and in the voices of the men and women who worked with him and knew him best. Deke Slayton's knowledge of how the .S. manned space program worked is the missing piece of every space buff's puzzle. Now, after decades of silence, he tells his priceless stories of those years when American was engaged in the greatest voyage of exploration in human history., ISBN13: 9780312859183 ISBN10: 031285918X Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126469644451,"sku":"CH_01-06-25_PHA_H00000KD","price":11.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91SMYDXwQVL.jpg?v=1754890338"},{"product_id":"the-private-lives-of-albert-einstein","title":"The Private Lives of Albert Einstein","description":"\u003cp\u003eA less-than-flattering biography of the great genius draws on archives and interviews to expose a man of powerful emotions and a deeply troubled family life., ISBN13: 9780312110475 ISBN10: 0312110472 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126494777507,"sku":"TN_04-04-25_STR_H0000608","price":15.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91PcWJqR9oL.jpg?v=1754891154"},{"product_id":"the-best-of-james-herriot-1","title":"The Best of James Herriot","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully illustrated collection of favorite stories from all four of James Herriot's volumes of memoirs. Full-color photography and fascinating marginal notes in a one-of-a-kind gift book., ISBN13: 9780312077167 ISBN10: 0312077165 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126498087075,"sku":"FK-7-STR_UBD_H0000QO7","price":14.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/918R61W9D5L_31f6ac08-899f-40bc-a267-88edc7633509.jpg?v=1754891229"},{"product_id":"the-best-of-james-herriot","title":"The Best of James Herriot","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully illustrated collection of favorite stories from all four of James Herriot's volumes of memoirs. Full-color photography and fascinating marginal notes in a one-of-a-kind gift book., ISBN13: 9780312077167 ISBN10: 0312077165 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126498119843,"sku":"CH_03-19-25_PHA_200004O6","price":19.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/918R61W9D5L.jpg?v=1754891232"},{"product_id":"richard-dawkins-how-a-scientist-changed-the-way-we-think-reflections-by-scientists-writers-and-philosophers","title":"Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of understanding evolution--a gene's eye view. Dawkins went on to publish five more bestselling books, including The Blind Watchmaker and Unweaving the Rainbow. He is one of the most high profile public intellectuals today and any attempt to understand the scientific view of the world must grapple with his ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\nNow, in this exciting collection of original essays, some of the world's leading thinkers offer their take on how Dawkins has changed the way we think. Readers will find stimulating pieces by Daniel Dennett, the renowned philosopher of mind and author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea; Steven Pinker, the brilliant Harvard linguist who wrote The Language Instinct and The Blank Slate; Matt Ridley, author of the bestselling Genome; and James Watson, who with Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, arguably the greatest scientific discovery of the last century. Dawkins' widely admired literary style forms the subject of several pieces, including one from novelist Philip Pullman (author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy). As one of the world's best known rationalists, Dawkins' stance on religion is another theme in this collection, explored by Simon Blackburn, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, and the Bishop of Oxford. Numbering twenty in all, these articles are not simply rosy tributes, but explore how Dawkins' ideas have shaped thinking and public debate, and include elements of criticism as well as thoughtful praise.\u003cbr\u003e\nRichard Dawkins' work has had the rare distinction of generating as much excitement outside the scientific community as within it. This stimulating volume is a superb summation of the depth and range of his influence., ISBN13: 9780199291168 ISBN10: 0199291160 Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126591377571,"sku":"05-31-25_H0000GJB","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/41eXnH7DjeL.jpg?v=1754895144"},{"product_id":"richard-dawkins-how-a-scientist-changed-the-way-we-think","title":"Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of understanding evolution--a gene's eye view. Dawkins went on to publish five more bestselling books, including The Blind Watchmaker and Unweaving the Rainbow. He is one of the most high profile public intellectuals today and any attempt to understand the scientific view of the world must grapple with his ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\nNow, in this exciting collection of original essays, some of the world's leading thinkers offer their take on how Dawkins has changed the way we think. Readers will find stimulating pieces by Daniel Dennett, the renowned philosopher of mind and author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea; Steven Pinker, the brilliant Harvard linguist who wrote The Language Instinct and The Blank Slate; Matt Ridley, author of the bestselling Genome; and James Watson, who with Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, arguably the greatest scientific discovery of the last century. Dawkins' widely admired literary style forms the subject of several pieces, including one from novelist Philip Pullman (author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy). As one of the world's best known rationalists, Dawkins' stance on religion is another theme in this collection, explored by Simon Blackburn, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, and the Bishop of Oxford. Numbering twenty in all, these articles are not simply rosy tributes, but explore how Dawkins' ideas have shaped thinking and public debate, and include elements of criticism as well as thoughtful praise.\u003cbr\u003e\nRichard Dawkins' work has had the rare distinction of generating as much excitement outside the scientific community as within it. This stimulating volume is a superb summation of the depth and range of his influence., ISBN13: 9780199214662 ISBN10: 0199214662 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126591508643,"sku":"TN-STR_UBD_H0000N7H","price":12.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/710AWHtB0SL.jpg?v=1754895154"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-hundredth-meridian-john-wesley-powell-and-the-second-opening-of-the-west","title":"Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was., ISBN13: 9780140159943 ISBN10: 0140159940 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126632632483,"sku":"06-04-25_H0000HAQ","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/8174cnKnprL.jpg?v=1754896699"},{"product_id":"hidden-figures-the-american-dream-and-the-untold-story-of-the-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-the-space-race-1","title":"Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe #1 New York Times bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\nThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerfu, ISBN13: 9780062363602 ISBN10: 0062363603 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126688338083,"sku":"10.16_kutu 22 - agustos_5","price":11.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/91HyCGVD9aL.jpg?v=1754898761"},{"product_id":"nothing-by-chance-a-gypsy-pilots-adventures-in-modern-america","title":"Nothing by Chance: A Gypsy Pilot's Adventures in Modern America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author describes his adventures when he emulated the gypsy pilots of the 20s and spent the summer of 1966 barnstorming, ISBN13: 9780025046900 ISBN10: 002504690X Material Type: hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46126833926307,"sku":"U1.7.6-K_STR_H000085H","price":26.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/61fu_m608UL.jpg?v=1754902141"},{"product_id":"the-map-that-changed-the-world-william-smith-and-the-birth-of-modern-geology-used-like-new","title":"The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology","description":null,"brand":"UsedBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46488891392163,"sku":"A-STR_11-03-25_UBD_H0001LPQ","price":14.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/71f7SQw1UFL.jpg?v=1762423015"}],"url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/collections\/scientist-biographies.oembed?page=2","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}