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Vendor:Paul R. Rosenbaum
Causal Inference
A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health, the economy, and public policy. Which of two antiviral drugs does the most to save people infected with Ebola virus? Does a daily glass of wine prolong or shorten...- $35.99
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Vendor:Mary-Frances O'Connor
The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing
The follow-up to celebrated grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor's The Grieving Brain focuses on the impact of grief--and life's other major stressors--on the human body.Coping with death and grief is one of the most painful human experiences. While we can speak...- $45.95
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Vendor:Peter Singer
Animal Liberation Now
Since its original publication in 1975, Animal Liberation has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and eliminate the cruelty we inflict on them. In Animal Liberation Now,...- $41.99
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Vendor:Laural Merlington
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what...- $39.99
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Vendor:Richard Rhodes
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth...- $94.99
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Vendor:Randall Munroe
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd--revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you...- $35.95
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Vendor:David Baker
The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation
From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex...- $45.99
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Vendor:Lulu Miller
Radiolab Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: Time
Radiolab is one of the most popular and longest-running shows on NPR, with 1.8 million listeners per week and over 500,000 podcast subscribers.Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might...- $29.95
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Vendor:Lulu Miller
Radiolab Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: Memory
Radiolab is one of the most popular and longest-running shows on NPR, with 1.8 million listeners per week and over 500,000 podcast subscribers.Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might...- $29.95
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Vendor:Emily Woo Zeller
Biohack Your Brain Lib/E: How to Boost Cognitive Health, Performance & Power
A neuroscientist's groundbreaking, science-driven plan for revitalizing, nourishing and rejuvenating your most essential asset--your brain.Your brain is the most essential organ in your body. The brain and spinal cord are intimately connected to every bodily system and organ, so when it is balanced everything...- $49.99
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Vendor:Richard P. Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 15 & 16
For decades, Richard P. Feynman s Lectures on Physics has been known worldwide as a classic resource for students and professionals. Responding to the interest in the source material from which the "Lectures on Physics" were transcribed, Basic Books is releasing Feynman s original...- $69.95
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Vendor:S. Fred Singer
Hot Talk, Cold Science, Third Edition: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate
The revised and expanded third edition of Hot Talk, Cold Science forms the capstone of the distinguished astrophysicist Dr. S. Fred Singer's lucid, yet hard scientific look at climate change. And the book is no less explosive than its predecessors--and certainly never more timely.Singer...- $39.95
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Vendor:Neil Degrasse Tyson
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling...- $24.95
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Vendor:Jonas Olofsson
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell - And the Extraordinary Power of the Nose
James Nestor's Breath meets Mary Roach's Gulp in a fascinating tour of our most essential sense for perceiving the world around us--and the story of how it became our most neglected.Smelling is one of the most natural things we do. We take over 20,000...- $39.99
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Vendor:Neil Degrasse Tyson
Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Ev
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults...- $19.95
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Vendor:Mark Miodownik
It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.Gases are all around us--they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm...- $39.99
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Vendor:Randall Munroe
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd--revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you...- $49.95
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Vendor:Sharyl Attkisson
Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
Respected Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled, The Smear, and Slanted exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry and news media for decades.Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma...- $49.99
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Vendor:Chris Ferrie
Quantum Bullsh*t: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics
Science is so f*cking rad. We don't deserve it. What actually is quantum physics? If you can answer that questions without bullsh*tting the person standing next to you in the bookstore, you can stop listening right now. But although most of us don't actually...- $19.99
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Vendor:Matt Ridley
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its...- $39.99
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Vendor:Lisa Baril
The Age of Melt: What Glaciers, Ice Mummies, and Ancient Artifacts Teach Us about Climate, Culture, and a Future Without Ice
An entertaining pop-sci narrative investigating ice patch archaeology and the role of glaciers in the development of human culture.Glaciers figure prominently in both ancient and contemporary narratives around the world. They inspire art and literature. They spark both fear and awe. And they give...- $45.99
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Vendor:Jeremy Rifkin
Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe
What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we'd been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all of...- $49.99
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Vendor:Simon Parkin
The Forbidden Garden: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in Besieged Leningrad
From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world's first seed bank who were faced with an impossible choice during the Second World War's Siege of Leningrad: eat the seeds to stave...- $39.99
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Vendor:Sam Kean
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Author: Sam KeanISBN-13: 9798200101719Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2010Format: CD- $20.99
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Vendor:Peter Tompkins
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial bestseller In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich...- $44.99
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Vendor:Neil Degrasse Tyson
Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Ev
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults...- $24.95
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Vendor:Max Lugavere
The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary
The author of the New York Times bestselling Genius Foods is back with a lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to its factory settings, to help fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression and to optimize cognitive health for a longer and healthier life.The...- $29.99
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Vendor:Jay Harman
The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation
Why does the bumblebee have better aerodynamics than a 747? What structural design is shared by a tornado and a blood vessel?Since the Industrial Revolution, manufacturers have built things by a process known as "heat, beat, and treat." They use enormous amounts of energy...- $29.95
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Vendor:Nathalie A. Cabrol
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
One of the world's leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity's most profound questions: Are we alone in the universe? And, how did life on Earth begin?We are living in a golden age in astronomy...- $39.99
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Vendor:Paul Davies
The Eerie Silence Lib/E: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
Author: Paul DaviesISBN-13: 9798200112777Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2010Format: CD- $19.99
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Vendor:Whurley
Quantum Computing for Dummies
Quantum computing has the promise to be the next huge thing in technology. How do we know that? Look at how much the big players in tech are investing in the technology. Quantum Computing For Dummies preps you for the amazing changes that are...- $45.95
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Vendor:Edward Dolnick
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.In the early 1800s the world was a safe and...- $39.99
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Vendor:Mark Miodownik
It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.Gases are all around us--they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm...- $45.95
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Vendor:James Bradley
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
""Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader."" --ROBERT MACFARLANE, bestselling author...- $45.95
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Vendor:Sy Montgomery
What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, "one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world" (The New York Times). For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery--whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National...- $21.99
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Vendor:James Bradley
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
""Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader."" --ROBERT MACFARLANE, bestselling author...- $55.99
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Vendor:Sharyl Attkisson
Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails
Respected Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled, The Smear, and Slanted exposes the corruption that has ruled the pharmaceutical industry and news media for decades.Through blatant lies, deep cover-ups, and high-level collusion with government and media, Big Pharma...- $41.99
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Vendor:Frank Wilczek
The Lightness Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless...- $27.98
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Vendor:Samuel Arbesman
The Half-Life of Facts Lib/E: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
Author: Samuel ArbesmanISBN-13: 9798200560370Publisher: Gildan Media CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2012Format: CD- $66.99
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Vendor:Ross Mitchell
The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea
You've heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart some 175 million years ago to give us our current continents, but what about its predecessors, Rodinia or Columbia? These "supercontinents" from Earth's past provide evidence that land repeatedly joins and separates. While scientists...- $39.99
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Vendor:Ross Mitchell
The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea
You've heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart some 175 million years ago to give us our current continents, but what about its predecessors, Rodinia or Columbia? These "supercontinents" from Earth's past provide evidence that land repeatedly joins and separates. While scientists...- $45.95
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Vendor:Bruce H. Lipton
The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology
In the tradition of Carl Sagan, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Hawking, a new voice has emerged with the unique gift of translating cutting-edge science into clear, accessible language: Dr. Bruce Lipton. With The Wisdom of Your Cells, this internationally recognized authority on cellular biology...- $79.95
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Vendor:Zoë Schlanger
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us.It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To...- $46.99
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Vendor:Bernd Heinrich
The Trees in My Forest Lib/E
In a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd Heinrich takes listeners on an eye-opening journey through the hidden life of a forest. A lifetime observer of the natural world shares his vast knowledge and reflections on the trees...- $66.99
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Vendor:Andrew Newberg
Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
Author: Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili MD, Vince RauseISBN-10: 1665236477ISBN-13: 9781665236478Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $41.99
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Vendor:Sy Montgomery
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
Author: Sy MontgomeryISBN-10: 1665153490ISBN-13: 9781665153492Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.90w x 1.10d- $46.99
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Vendor:Greg Graffin
Population Wars: A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
Author: Greg GraffinISBN-10: 8200001466ISBN-13: 9798200001460Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2015Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.30lbs- $41.99
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Vendor:Richard Rhodes
The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.Few great...- $75.00
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Vendor:Judy Mikovits
Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science
Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant researcher shaking up the old boys' club of science with her groundbreaking discoveries. And like many women who have trespassed into the world of men, she uncovered decades-old secrets that many would prefer to...- $19.99
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Vendor:Evan Thompson
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes--rather than ignores or tries not to see--humanity's lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. They...- $45.95
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