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  • Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience

    Martin Gardner

    Paperback

    "[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit."—Entertainment Weekly

  • Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature

    Hampton Sides, Jason Schneider

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    Join longtime Outside editor and contributor Hampton Sides as he rollicks through the fascinating, quirky questions readers ask about the world around them.

  • Rosalind Franklin and DNA

    Anne Sayre

    Paperback

    Rosalind Franklin's research was central to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. She never received the credit she was due during her lifetime.

  • Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey

    Ralph Leighton

    Paperback

    As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there.

  • Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

    John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth Ford

    Paperback

    Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award

    "This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review