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Hew, Screw, + Glue: How Stuff Is Made
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Product Description: Did you know:The sap from the Hevea brasiliensis species of tree is transformed into condoms Lipstick was originally made from crushed ants and carmine beetles Some perfumes come from the anal glands of beavers Mussel shells and corn cobs were commonly used as toilet paper Fish bones were once used as toothpaste Hew, Screw & Glue investigates 30 common household items and explores the step-by-step production process from development to packaging to sale...read more
By James Innes-Smith and Henrietta Webb (illustrator)
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9780810982598 | Harry N Abrams Inc, May 1, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Did you know:The sap from the Hevea brasiliensis species of tree is transformed into condoms Lipstick was originally made from crushed ants and carmine beetles Some perfumes come from the anal glands of beavers Mussel shells and corn cobs were commonly used as toilet paper Fish bones were once used as toothpaste Hew, Screw & Glue investigates 30 common household items and explores the step-by-step production process from development to packaging to sale.

Chemistry of New Materials
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Product Description: Nature has a remarkable variety of ways of assembling atoms and molecules to form natural products, and people still have a great deal to learn from these processes. But natural methods provide no more than a hint of the host of new products that can be made...read more
By David E. Newton
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9780816052783 | Facts on File, September 1, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Nature has a remarkable variety of ways of assembling atoms and molecules to form natural products, and people still have a great deal to learn from these processes.

The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
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By J. E. Gordon
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9780691125480 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $29.95
9780140135978, titled "New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor" | 2 edition (Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999), cover price $17.95
9780691023809 | Reissue edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $19.95

Stuff: The Materials the World Is Made of
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An insightful and phenomenal foray into the world of stuff--metals, composites, ceramics, plastics, and semiconductors found in all man-made things--unravels the mysteries, examines the exceptional histories, and presents the brilliant personalities behind the discoveries of the materials that make up our world. Reprint.
By Ivan Amato
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9780465083282 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Provides a history of how scientists have taken raw materials and turned them into new and usable 'stuff,' and includes interviews with experts in the field

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9780380731534 | Bard, September 1, 1998, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Provides a history of how scientists have taken raw materials and turned them into new and usable 'stuff,' and includes interviews with experts in the field

Qed: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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Explains the principles of quantum electrodynamics in terms understandable to layman
By Richard Phillips Feynman
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9780691127170 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $42.00
9780691083889 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1985, cover price $57.50

Paperback:

9780691164090 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 26, 2014, cover price $18.95
9780691125756 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 4, 2006, cover price $17.95
9780691024172 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explains the principles of quantum electrodynamics in terms understandable to layman
9780691150925 | Gardners Books, October 21, 1988, cover price $19.65

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