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Ladies of Liberty: the Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Cokie Roberts
The influential NPR reporter, author, and political commentator shares the stories of remarkable women who shaped American history between 1796 and 1828, including Dolley Madison, Theodosia Burr, and Sacajawea. Insightful and inspiring.
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Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
A whimsical assessment of the science of sexual physiology considers the lighter side of such topics as the arousal of cadavers, mythologies about a woman's ability to experience orgasm, and the ineffectiveness of Viagra on female pandas.
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Bad Money: the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Kevin Phillips
A cautionary survey of the role of America's financial sector in compromising the nation's economy and global future examines the sources of such issues as rising debt, high mortgage rates, and increasing oil prices, making sobering predictions about the downfall of America as a world power.
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 Windows Vista in a Nutshell, a Desktop Quick Reference
Preston Gralla, O'Reilly guides. A thorough guide to the latest Windows operating system. Extensive info on installation, keyboard shortcuts, and more. more
 Mesh Enhancement
Glen A. Hansen. Focuses on mesh (grid) enhancement techniques, specifically the use of selected elliptic methods for both structured and unstructured meshes associated with computational physics applications. more
 MATLAB Primer, 7th edition
Timothy A. Davis and Kermit Sigmon
An introduction and a "pocketbook" reference for everyday users of this software, an intuitive language for expressing problems and solutions both numerically and graphically. more
 Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids: Physics of the Chemical Bond
Walter A. Harrison
Offers a basic understanding of the electronic structure of covalent and ionic solids, simple metals, transition metals and their compounds. It also explains how to calculate dielectric, conducting, and bonding properties for each. Includes a useful Solid State Table of the Elements.
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Collectible
Enjoy our selection of collectible books, which includes signed first editions.
 Man-Made Transuranium Elements
Glenn T. Seaborg
First edition, original wrappers. Very good. Foundations of Modern General Chemistry Series. Inscribed by Seaborg: "To Adrian___ / with best wishes / and to help you / learn more about / the transuranium elements--- / Glenn T. Seaborg / Sept. 17, 1963." viii, 120 pp; 41 figs. more
 In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
S. S. Schweber
First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Dust
jacket condition: Fine. 266 pp. Index, bibliography, notes. Embossing from the
library of Samuel B. Ballen. Schweber deals with the political involvements and
ethical responsibilities in and after World War II. The book is a narrative of
how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the
nuclear weapons they helped create. Samuel B. Ballen, from whose library the
book comes, was the owner of the historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, a soldier in
Europe, a Texas oil man, a friend to J. Robert Oppenheimer, and an acquaintance
of such diverse people as Lee Harvey Oswald, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, and
Charlie Parker. This is a beautiful association copy. more
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