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    The Elements of Marie Curie

    Dava Sobel

    Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of…

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    The Elements of Marie Curie

    Dava Sobel

    Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the…

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    Lunar

    A beautiful showcase of hand-drawn geological charts of the Moon, combined with a retelling of the symbolic and mythical associations of Earth's satellite.

    President Kennedy's rousing 'We will go to…

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    Longitude

    Dava Sobel

    The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an…

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    The Elements of Marie Curie

    Dava Sobel

    The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in…

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    Arthritis: What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief for the Rest of Your Life, Even After Drugs and Surgery Have Failed

    Dava Sobel,Arthur C Klein

    Breakthrough relief for the rest of your life, even after drugs & surgery have failed.

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    The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

    Dava Sobel

    Shares the story of the scientific contributions of a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-twentieth century, tracing their collection of…

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    A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos

    Dava Sobel

    The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world.

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    The Planets

    Dava Sobel

    Sobel brings science and history deftly to life as she explores the origins of the planets and reveals the exotic environments that exist in each of these fascinating alien worlds.

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    The Planets

    Dava Sobel

    After the huge national and international success of ‘Longitude’ and ‘Gallileo’s Daughter’, Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.

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    Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

    Dava Sobel

    Sobel presents the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison’s 40-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.

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    Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

    Dava Sobel

    Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo and the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, Sobel, a cloistered nun, dramatically reinterprets the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose…

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    Cosmos: A Field Guide

    Giles Sparrow

    The biggest and best ever reproduction of the Space Age’s most remarkable images

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    Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts

    William Shea

    Imagined by a renowned cosmologist who holds an academic post at Galileo’s old university, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of a man who transformed our view of the…

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    Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633

    Suor Maria Celeste

    From the bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter comes a book of the actual letters that inspired that story. The letters span a dramatic decade and reveal an exceptional woman who…

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