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Coding
Creative Coding in Python: 30+ Programming Projects in Art, Games, and More
Creative Coding in Python: 30+ Programming Projects in Art, Games, and More
Sheena Vaidyanathan

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Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress
Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress
Kim Gee

from $7.29

Coding Games in Python
Coding Games in Python
D.K. Publishing

from $7.39

Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done
Andrea Gonzales

from $4.19

Coding for Minecrafters: Unofficial Adventures for Kids Learning Computer Code
Coding for Minecrafters: Unofficial Adventures for Kids Learning Computer Code
Lynn Beighley

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Teach Your Kids to Code - A Parent- Friendly Guide to Python Programming
Teach Your Kids to Code - A Parent- Friendly Guide to Python Programming
Bryson Payne

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SQL QuickStart Guide : The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data with SQL
SQL QuickStart Guide : The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data with SQL

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Coding for Beginners in easy steps: Basic Programming for All Ages
Coding for Beginners in easy steps: Basic Programming for All Ages
Mike McGrath

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Crack the Code: Learn the Basics to Computer Coding and Programming!
Crack the Code: Learn the Basics to Computer Coding and Programming!
Lynn Beighley

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Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
Carter Sande

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CoderDojo Nano: Building a Website: Create with Code
CoderDojo Nano: Building a Website: Create with Code
Clyde Hatter

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Get Coding!: Learn Html, CSS & JavaScript & Build a Website, App & Game
Get Coding!: Learn Html, CSS & JavaScript & Build a Website, App & Game
Young Rewired State

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Astronomy
Cosmos
Cosmos
Carl Sagan

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Night Sky: A Field Guide to the Constellations [With Card Flashlight]
Night Sky: A Field Guide to the Constellations [With Card Flashlight]
Jonathan Poppele

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Astronomy for All Ages, 2nd: Discovering the Universe through Activities for Children and Adults
Astronomy for All Ages, 2nd: Discovering the Universe through Activities for Children and Adults
Edward Pascuzzi

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The Night Sky Month by Month
The Night Sky Month by Month
Will Gater

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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Stephen Hawking

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Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea—the Milky Way's Home
Finding Our Place in the Universe: How We Discovered Laniakea—the Milky Way's Home
Hélène Courtois

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Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The Moon
The Moon
Michael Carlowicz

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Older Than the Stars
Older Than the Stars
Karen C. Fox

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Little Kids First Big Book of Space
Little Kids First Big Book of Space
Catherine D. Hughes

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50 Things To See With A Small Telescope
50 Things To See With A Small Telescope
John A. Read

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Science Comics: Solar System: Our Place in Space
Science Comics: Solar System: Our Place in Space
Rosemary Mosco

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Who Was Sally Ride?
Who Was Sally Ride?
Megan Stine

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Chemistry
Awesome Science Experiments for Kids: 100+ Fun STEM / STEAM Projects and Why They Work
Awesome Science Experiments for Kids: 100+ Fun STEM / STEAM Projects and Why They Work

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The Elements Book: A Visual Encyclopedia of the Periodic Table
The Elements Book: A Visual Encyclopedia of the Periodic Table
D.K. Publishing

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Real Chemistry Experiments: 40 Exciting Steam Activities for Kids
Real Chemistry Experiments: 40 Exciting Steam Activities for Kids
Edward P Zovinka PhD

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The Element in the Room: Investigating the Atomic Ingredients that Make Up Your Home
The Element in the Room: Investigating the Atomic Ingredients that Make Up Your Home

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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam Kean

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Chemistry for Dummies
Chemistry for Dummies
John T. Moore

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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Jay Burreson

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AP Chemistry Flash Cards
AP Chemistry Flash Cards
Neil D. Jespersen

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AP Chemistry Crash Course
AP Chemistry Crash Course
Adrian Dingle

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H2O - Biographie des Wassers.
H2O - Biographie des Wassers.
Philip Ball

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SUPER Science Experiments: At Home: Try these in the kitchen, bathroom, and all over your home!
SUPER Science Experiments: At Home: Try these in the kitchen, bathroom, and all over your home!
Elizabeth Snoke Harris

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Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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Awesome Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids: 50 Steam Projects You Can Eat!
Awesome Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids: 50 Steam Projects You Can Eat!
Megan Olivia Hall

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Psychology
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks

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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan

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How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie

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You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
David McRaney

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The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment
The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment
Todd Kashdan

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer

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Psychology for Dummies
Psychology for Dummies
Adam Cash

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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon

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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
James Doty

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The Sociopath Next Door
The Sociopath Next Door
Martha Stout

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Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness: A Bipolar Life
Marya Hornbacher

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I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
Jerold J. Kreisman

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Engineering
100 Easy STEAM Activities: Awesome Hands-On Projects for Aspiring Artists and Engineers
100 Easy STEAM Activities: Awesome Hands-On Projects for Aspiring Artists and Engineers
Andrea Scalzo Yi

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Rosie Revere, Engineer
Rosie Revere, Engineer
Andrea Beaty

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Think Like an Engineer: Use Systematic Thinking to Solve Everyday Challenges & Unlock the Inherent Values in Them
Think Like an Engineer: Use Systematic Thinking to Solve Everyday Challenges & Unlock the Inherent Values in Them
Mushtak Al-Atabi

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
William Kamkwamba

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How a House Is Built
How a House Is Built
Gail Gibbons

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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Henry Petroski

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What Do You Do with an Idea?
What Do You Do with an Idea?
Kobi Yamada

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Amazing Feats of Civil Engineering
Amazing Feats of Civil Engineering
L.E. Carmichael

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Rubber Band Engineer: Build Slingshot Powered Rockets, Rubber Band Rifles, Unconventional Catapults, and More Guerrilla Gadgets from Household Hardware
Rubber Band Engineer: Build Slingshot Powered Rockets, Rubber Band Rifles, Unconventional Catapults, and More Guerrilla Gadgets from Household Hardware
Lance Akiyama

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Duct Tape Engineer: The Book of Big, Bigger, and Epic Duct Tape Projects
Duct Tape Engineer: The Book of Big, Bigger, and Epic Duct Tape Projects
Lance Akiyama

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Basic Machines and How They Work
Basic Machines and How They Work
Naval Education and Training Program Development Center

from $6.79

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The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson

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Cosmos
Cosmos
Carl Sagan

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Silent Spring
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

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The Gift of Fear
The Gift of Fear
Gavin de Becker

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

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The God Delusion
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins

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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach

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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Stephen Hawking

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel

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On the Origin of the Species
On the Origin of the Species
Charles Darwin

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The Anarchist Cookbook
The Anarchist Cookbook
William Powell

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The plant paradox : the hidden dangers in "healthy" foods that cause disease and weight gain
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Steven R. Gundry

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Alton Biggs

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Edward J. Tarbuck

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Physics for Scientists and Engineers. Chapters 1-39
Physics for Scientists and Engineers. Chapters 1-39
Jewett, John

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Statistics for Business and Economics (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Statistics for Business & Economics)
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David R. Anderson

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Jamie Lee Curtis

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Barbara Kingsolver

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Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
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Louis Sachar

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Jan Berenstain

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Ellie Whitney

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Animals on Board (MathStart 2)
Stuart J. Murphy

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Joanna Cole

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How to Hide a Butterfly and Other Insects (All Aboard Book)
Ruth Heller

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Mary Roach
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Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers book cover Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex book cover

Journalist and former Salon.com columnist Mary Roach didn't leave readers and critics cold with her first book, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. In fact, the comical-yet-scientific look at the ""life"" of the dead body throughout history earned her a spot in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program.

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