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Offers a science book for the holidays that explores such puzzles as the physics behind Rudolph's red nose and the logistics of Santa's Christmas Eve mission

Hardcover:

9780316366052 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 1998, cover price N/A
| About this edition: Offers a science book for the holidays that explores such puzzles as the physics behind Rudolph's red nose and the logistics of Santa's Christmas Eve mission
9780316366113 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Offers a science book for the holidays that explores such puzzles as the physics behind Rudolph's red nose and the logistics of Santa's Christmas Eve mission

Paperback:

9780316366953 | Back Bay Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Offers a science book for the holidays that explores such puzzles as the physics behind Rudolph's red nose and the logistics of Santa's Christmas Eve mission
9789990142990 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

Miscellaneous:

9780316054515 | Back Bay Books, December 14, 2008, cover price $9.99

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Product Description: Magic and science may seem like strange bedfellows, but in this captivating and far-ranging book, respected science journalist Roger Highfield nimbly illustrates how the two disciplines are actually deeply intertwined in the Harry Potter books...read more

Hardcover:

9780670031535, titled "The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works" | Viking Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A look at the scientific principles underpinning the magic of Harry Potter reveals some of the true magic behind science.

Paperback:

9780142003558, titled "The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 2003), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A look at the scientific principles underpinning the magic of Harry Potter reveals some of the true magic behind science.

Prebinding:

9781435298125, titled "The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Magic and science may seem like strange bedfellows, but in this captivating and far-ranging book, respected science journalist Roger Highfield nimbly illustrates how the two disciplines are actually deeply intertwined in the Harry Potter books.
9780613663755 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A look at the scientific principles underpinning the magic of Harry Potter reveals some of the true magic behind science.

The definitive book on cloning and the stem-cell controversy by Ian Wilmut, the leader of the team that produced Dolly the sheep

Hardcover:

9780316733205 | Gardners Books, July 6, 2006, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Provides a discussion of the potential value of cloning and of the ethical choices that this technology has raised, including the issues surrounding stem-cell research.
9780393060669 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2006), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An argument for the benefits of cloning, co-written by a scientist whose team was responsible for a famous cloned sheep, presents the reasons for his opposition to the cloning of humans and explains that cloning technology can be ethically applied to free families from serious hereditary diseases.

Paperback:

9780316724692 | Gardners Books, July 6, 2006, cover price $15.15 | About this edition: The definitive book on cloning and the stem-cell controversy by Ian Wilmut, the leader of the team that produced Dolly the sheep

Paperback:

9780753813669 | Revised edition (Orion Pub Co, May 1, 2004), cover price $10.01

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A fascinating addition to the works of Stephen Hawking, James Gleick, and Richard Feynman explains the scientific principle of complexity, illustrating the ways individual units--from ants to neurons--organize themselves into intricate structures.

Hardcover:

9780449908327 | 1 edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1995), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Explains the scientific principle of complexity, illustrating the ways individual units--from ants to neurons--organize themselves into intricate structures

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A groundbreaking book explores the dynamic, emerging concept of complexity and its relationship to mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry, and provides an arresting account of how far science has come and what to expect in the rapidly approaching future. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780449910818 | Ballantine Books, August 27, 1996, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A groundbreaking book explores the dynamic, emerging concept of complexity and its relationship to mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry, and provides an arresting account of how far science has come and what to expect in the rapidly approaching future.

Product Description: This controversial account of Albert Einstein's scandalous personal life challenges the image of this genius, painting a shocking portrait that exposes him as "an adulterous, egomaniacal misogynist who may have even beaten his first wife"(The New York Times Sunday Magazine)...read more

Hardcover:

9780312110475 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A 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

Paperback:

9780312131470 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This controversial account of Albert Einstein's scandalous personal life challenges the image of this genius, painting a shocking portrait that exposes him as "an adulterous, egomaniacal misogynist who may have even beaten his first wife"(The New York Times Sunday Magazine).
9780312302276, titled "Private Lives of Albert Einstein" | Griffin, March 15, 1994, cover price $25.99

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Surveys scientific discoveries from Newton to the present to solve the mystery of time and offer a radical new theory about time running backward

Hardcover:

9780449906309 | Fawcett Books, May 1, 1991, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Surveys every scientific discovery from Newton to the present to solve the mystery of time and offer a radical new theory about time running backward

Paperback:

9780449907238, titled "The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery" | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Surveys scientific discoveries from Newton to the present to solve the mystery of time and offer a radical new theory about time running backward

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Traces the history of the two British universities, describes their architecture, and looks at changes in the two towns

Hardcover:

9780521301398 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the two British universities, describes their architecture, and looks at changes in the two towns

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