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1.		Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time from Isis Price: $24.95 Customer Review: Another great read by Dava Sobel, with complex technical, political, and historical issues boiled down to their essence. Longitude is the story of the common man, self-educated and modest, who succeeded where the giants had failed. Unfortunately Harrison could have used a modern PR man to make his... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.	[no image]	Galileo's Daughter from Walker, and Co., NY Price: $2.76 Customer Review: Rather unremarkable, but fairly informative and enjoyable. It is sad that our approaches to religion and science don't seem to have progressed much over the last 4 centuries as there still are people debating creationism and evolution etc.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Arthritis, What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief For The Rest Of Your Life, Even After Drugs & Surgery Have Failed from St. Martin's Griffin Price: $6.15 Customer Review: I purchased this book when I learned I have arthritis in my spine, but I found that the book doesn't recommend anything I'm not already doing in yoga class. I'm going to hand it on to my mother, however, especially for the hand exercises.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time from Walker & Company Price: $13.50 Customer Review: The book is great, and so clearly so, that I am not going to argue about it. Its illustrations: tasty, superb. Text: lucid, informative. Its structure: dramatic, great man theory of history. One thing that struck me was the book's scattered but arresting meditations on time. Aristotle had... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Planets from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $2.74 Customer Review: I recently set upon myself the task of updating my knowledge of the solar system. For readers interested in such things, Dava Sobel's _The Planets_ (2005) is an excellent introduction. You may tell yourself you only want some basic information. But her prose will hook you. Here she is on the Moon... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Backache: What Exercises Work from St. Martin's Griffin Price: $6.42 Customer Review: It's a good book and if I were to apply it's information my back strains on the rare occurrences...would probably be a never again ache in my life	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe from Walker & Company Price: $4.79 Customer Review: Physicist Chet Raymo walks the same path to and from his office at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. He has ruminated upon the history of the rocks, the flowers, the water, and the people existing along this one mile path. There are human stories, and stories that involve the forces... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America from Three Rivers Press Price: $9.95 Customer Review: Ruth Gruber describes her journey accompanying 1,000 Jewish and Christian refugees who are brought from Italy to American and saved from the Nazis during the Holocaust. She recounts many of their amazing and moving stories of survival as well as the difficulties during their journey. I thought... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $5.50 Customer Review: This collection of all surviving letters from Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo Galilei, translated by the author and published for the first time in English, constitutes a portrait of a young nun devoted to her internationally famous father. LETTERS TO FATHER is a fast read; the even numbered... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Best American Science Writing 2004 from Harper Perennial Price: $0.01 Customer Review: This is a great series. Don't miss any of it. Back order old issues... it's worth it.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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