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  No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman

  by Christopher Sykes, Richard P. Feynman

  A life of the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist features more than a hundred photographs and interviews with family, friends, and Feynman himself, offering insight into the mind of a great creative scientist at work and play. Reprint.
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  Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character

  by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

  An omnibus edition celebrating a great scientific mind and a legendary American original—including a live recording. Richard Feynman (1918-1988) thrived on outrageous adventures. In the phenomenal national bestsellers "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" the Nobel Prize-winning physicist recounted in an inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic... (more)
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  The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-in Edition) : Notes on a Latin American Journey

  by Ann Wright, Ernesto Che Guevara

  These travel diaries capture the essence and exuberance of the young legend, Che Guevara. In January 1952, Che set out from Buenos Aires to explore South America on an ancient Norton motorcycle. He encounters an extraordinary range of people -- from native Indians to copper miners, lepers and tourists -- experiencing hardships and adventures that informed much of his later life. This expanded, new edition from... (more)
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  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

  by Richard P. Feynman, Edward Hutchings, Ralph Leighton

  The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo... (more)
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  What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  Further Adventures of a Curious Character

  by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton

  The best-selling sequel to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" --funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its... (more)
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  Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman

  by Richard P. Feynman

  "I'm an explorer, OK? I like to find out!" One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured his reputation amongst students and seekers around the world. It was his outsized love for life, however, that earned him the status of an... (more)