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CD/Spoken Word:

9781522637691 | Unabridged edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, October 11, 2016), cover price $49.97

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CD/Spoken Word:

9781522635208 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, October 11, 2016), cover price $9.99
9781522637684 | Unabridged edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, October 11, 2016), cover price $14.99

Paperback:

9781408830611 | Gardners Books, October 8, 2015, cover price $16.60

Hardcover:

9781620405376 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, June 6, 2017, cover price $28.00
9780802716538 | Walker & Co, March 5, 2014, cover price $28.00

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Recounts the tumultuous, decade-long love affair between Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, one of the most gifted and radical scientists of the eighteenth century, whose contributions to the world of science have been ignored by history, set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Paperback:

9780307237217 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, October 23, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Recounts the tumultuous, decade-long love affair between Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, one of the most gifted and radical scientists of the eighteenth century, whose contributions to the world of science have been ignored by history, set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment.

Miscellaneous:

9780307497246 | Crown Pub, January 21, 2009, cover price $13.95

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Product Description: In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe. In these pages the virtuoso scientists who plumbed the secrets of electricity come vividly to life, including familiar giants like Thomas Edison; the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system; and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York on a platform of persecuting Catholics...read more

Paperback:

9780307335982 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, February 28, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents the history of the science of electricity, discussing the influence of the scientists and pioneers who investigated the unique properties of charged particles, including Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, and Samuel Morse.

Prebinding:

9781435294431 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In Electric Universe, David Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through a lucid account of the invisible force that permeates our universe.

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Dangerous Liaisons meets A Beautiful Mind in this thrilling history of the turbulent love affair that fired the Enlightenment's intellectual revolution.

Paperback:

9780349119076 | Gardners Books, November 1, 2007, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Dangerous Liaisons meets A Beautiful Mind in this thrilling history of the turbulent love affair that fired the Enlightenment's intellectual revolution.

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Recounts the tumultuous, decade-long love affair between Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, one of the most gifted and radical scientists of the eighteenth century, whose contributions to the world of science have been ignored by history, set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment. 50,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780307237200 | Crown Pub, October 3, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recounts the tumultuous, decade-long love affair between Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, one of the most gifted and radical scientists of the eighteenth century, whose contributions to the world of science have been ignored by history, set against the backdrop of the Enlightenment.

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Paperback:

9788408058045 | Planeta Pub Corp, March 15, 2005, cover price $9.95

A popular history of the science of electricity follows the work of the scientists and pioneers who investigated its unique properties and secrets and discusses the influence of their scientific breakthroughs on our ability to harness its power.

Hardcover:

9781400045501, titled "The Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story Of Electricity" | Crown Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A popular history of the science of electricity follows the work of the scientists and pioneers who investigated its unique properties and secrets and discusses the influence of their scientific breakthroughs on our ability to harness its power.

Miscellaneous:

9781400050604 | Crown Pub, February 15, 2005, cover price $15.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739313251 | Abridged edition (Random House, February 15, 2005), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A popular history of the science of electricity follows the work of the scientists and pioneers who investigated its unique properties and secrets and discusses the influence of their scientific breakthroughs on our ability to harness its power.

A popular history of the science of electricity follows the work of the scientists and pioneers who investigated its unique properties and secrets and discusses the influence of their scientific breakthroughs on our ability to harness its power.

Hardcover:

9780316861823 | Gardners Books, January 20, 2005, cover price $25.15 | About this edition: From the author of 'E=MC2', this title provides a descriptive analysis of one of the most powerful forces that controls the universe - electricity.

Paperback:

9780316729727, titled "Electric Universe" | Gardners Books, January 20, 2005, cover price $21.40

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780739313244 | Abridged edition (Random House, February 1, 2005), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A popular history of the science of electricity follows the work of the scientists and pioneers who investigated its unique properties and secrets and discusses the influence of their scientific breakthroughs on our ability to harness its power.

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Product Description: It is a well-known equation, yet who but the physicists really understand E=mc2? Bodanis rescues the masses from ignorance in an entertaining story about Einstein's formulation of the equation in 1905 and its association ever after with relativity and nuclear energy...read more

Paperback:

9780753156070 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, January 10, 2004), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: It is a well-known equation, yet who but the physicists really understand E=mc2?

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The author of E=mc2 presents in accessible language a tour of an everyday home and the science surrounding it, from radio static and pillow mites to the electric fields of a light bulb and the colors in a garden rose. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780425188422 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, February 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Describes the invisible physical and biological events in a house that are a part of everyday life, such as the eggs quietly breathing in the refrigerator and the electrical force fields curling out of the wall sockets.

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Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's influential 1905 discovery and offers an explanation of the equation from mathematical, historical, and scientific perspectives.

Hardcover:

9780802714633 | Walker & Co, October 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's seminal 1905 discovery, and offers a definitive explanation of the equation from a mathematical, historical, and scientific perspective.
9780753156063 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, December 1, 2000), cover price $35.50
9780756757083 | Diane Pub Co, May 1, 2000, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780425181645 | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 2001), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's influential 1905 discovery and offers an explanation of the equation from mathematical, historical, and scientific perspectives.

Reinforced:

9780606224482 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.57 | About this edition: Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's influential 1905 discovery and offers an explanation of the equation from mathematical, historical, and scientific perspectives.

Prebinding:

9781417738151 | Reissue edition (Turtleback Books, January 1, 2006), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's influential 1905 discovery and offers an explanation of the equation from mathematical, historical, and scientific perspectives.

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Product Description: It is a well-known equation, yet who but the physicists really understand E=mc2? Bodanis rescues the masses from ignorance in an entertaining story about Einstein's formulation of the equation in 1905 and its association ever after with relativity and nuclear energy...read more

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736670791 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, November 1, 2001), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: It is a well-known equation, yet who but the physicists really understand E=mc2?

State-of-the-art photography complements the descriptions of physiological changes that occur during everyday events such as a diet, an argument, and a kiss, in an exploration of the effects of the outside world on our insides (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780684810195, titled "The Secret Family: Twenty-Four Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodies" | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: State-of-the-art photography complements the descriptions of physiological changes that occur during everyday events such as a diet, an argument, and a kiss, in an exploration of the effects of the outside world on our insides

Paperback:

9780684845937 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1999, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: State-of-the-art photography complements the descriptions of physiological changes that occur during everyday events such as a diet, an argument, and a kiss, in an exploration of the effects of the outside world on our insides

Prebinding:

9780613194518 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $28.05 | About this edition: State-of-the-art photography complements the descriptions of physiological changes that occur during everyday events such as a diet, an argument, and a kiss, in an exploration of the effects of the outside world on our insides

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A behind-the-scenes study of the one of the world's greatest scientific discoveries examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's seminal 1905 discovery and offers a definitive explanation of the equation from a mathematical, historical, and scientific perspective. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780802713520 | Walker & Co, November 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examines the science and scientists who provided the backdrop to Einstein's seminal 1905 discovery and offers a definitive explanation of the equation from a mathematical, historical, and scientific perspective.

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Describes the unseen aspects of life in a garden, discussing the interaction of plants and insects in the daily battle for survival, and includes state-of-the-art microphotographs

Paperback:

9780671868611 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, November 1, 1993), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Describes the unseen aspects of life in a garden, discussing the interaction of plants and insects in the daily battle for survival, and includes state-of-the-art microphotographs

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Expert science writing and state-of-the-art microphotography describe how most of the mysteries and natural laws of the universe can be witnessed in the microcosm of the garden. 40,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780671663537 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Describes the unseen aspects of life in a garden, discussing the interaction of plants and insects in the daily battle for survival, and includes state-of-the-art microphotographs

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Product Description: A collection of essays, which attempt to probe the hidden assumptions by which we live. The author delves into history, psychology and the more esoteric fringes of theology to try to explain why we go through the contortions that we do in our public and private lives.

Paperback:

9780333389768 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 1988, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: A collection of essays, which attempt to probe the hidden assumptions by which we live.

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Vividly describes the invisible physical and biological events in a house that are a part of everyday life, such as the eggs quietly breathing in the refrigerator and the electrical force fields curling out of the wall sockets

Paperback:

9780671657185 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, January 1, 1988), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Vividly describes the invisible physical and biological events in a house that are a part of everyday life, such as the eggs quietly breathing in the refrigerator and the electrical force fields curling out of the wall sockets

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Vividly describes the invisible physical and biological events in a house that are a part of everyday life, such as the eggs quietly breathing in the refrigerator and the electrical force fields curling out of the wall sockets

Hardcover:

9780671600327 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Vividly describes the invisible physical and biological events in a house that are a part of everyday life, such as the eggs quietly breathing in the refrigerator and the electrical force fields curling out of the wall sockets

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