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Vendor: Daniel Z. Lieberman
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them?Why is addiction "perfectly logical" to an addict?Why does love change so quickly from passion to disinterest?Why are some people diehard liberals and others hardcore conservatives?Why are we always hopeful...- $36.99
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Vendor: Donald R. Prothero
Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of Indricotheres
Written for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls...- $41.99
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Vendor: Joe Roman
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
Joe Roman reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying--and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe. If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains--eating, pooping, and...- $45.00
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Vendor: Fez Inkwright
Botanical Curses and Poisons: The Shadow-Lives of Plants
Discover the folklore and history of our most toxic plants. If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison, ' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.--Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland In both history and fiction, some of the most...- $36.99
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Vendor: Max Solomon Bennett
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five "breakthroughs" in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals...- $41.99
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Vendor: Jessica Wapner
The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
Author: Jessica WapnerISBN-10: 166515912XISBN-13: 9781665159128Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2013Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.13lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: Mark Lorch
Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction
From the simplest bacteria to humans, all living things are composed of cells of one type or another, all of which have fundamentally the same chemistry. This chemistry must provide mechanisms that allow cells to interact with the external world, a means to power...- $41.99
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Vendor: Paul Engel
Enzymes: A Very Short Introduction
Enzymes are the astonishing, tiny molecular machines that make life possible. Each one of these small proteins speeds up a single chemical reaction inside a living organism many millionfold. Working together, teams of enzymes carry out all the processes that collectively we recognize as...- $41.99
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Vendor: Randall Munroe
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd comes this hilarious and informative book of answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology,...- $29.95
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Vendor: David K. Randall
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and...- $46.99
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Vendor: Noah Whiteman
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―from Spices to Vices
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature's toxins and why we are attracted--and addicted--to them, in this "magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force" (Neil Shubin).A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and private stashes.Scratch beneath the surface...- $29.99
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Vendor: Jaime Green
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take...- $46.99
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Vendor: Samuel Graydon
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles
Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as...- $39.99
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Vendor: Adam Frank
The Little Book of Aliens
"With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life." --Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsFrom astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our...- $41.99
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Vendor: Gerald Schroeder
God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong about God All Along
In his first book since 2002's acclaimed The Hidden Face of God, popular scientist Gerald Schroeder combines decades of scientific research and biblical study to present a groundbreaking new paradigm of how to understand God. Fans of Jack Miles's God: A Biography, Francis Collins's...- $41.99
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Vendor: Lynne McTaggart
The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us
Author: Lynne McTaggartISBN-10: 8200096041ISBN-13: 9798200096046Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2011Format: CDWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d- $46.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Rush
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as...- $39.99
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Vendor: Adam Frank
The Little Book of Aliens
"With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life." --Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsFrom astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our...- $41.99
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Vendor: Max Solomon Bennett
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five "breakthroughs" in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals...- $46.99
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Vendor: Marcelo Gleiser
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity--the foundations of science--to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.Since Copernicus,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Carl Sagan
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time. Each record contained...- $16.99
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Vendor: Amy Schneider
In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!--and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself.In eighth grade, Amy was voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!" by her classmates....- $39.99
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Vendor: Richard Panek
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate.When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in eighty-eight children diagnosed on the spectrum. And...- $41.99
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Vendor: Simon Schama
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has...- $57.99
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Vendor: Alan Cutler
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth
How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The seashell question plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme.Author: Alan CutlerISBN-10: 1665185260ISBN-13: 9781665185264Publisher: HighBridge...- $36.99
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Vendor: Jim Al-Khalili
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European RenaissanceThe Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots...- $34.95
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Vendor: Laura Trethewey
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth--the world's seafloor--and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now...- $46.99
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Vendor: Michael E. Mann
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperiled if we veer off course....- $45.00
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Vendor: Lucy Jane Santos
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday lifeOf all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal.Half Lives...- $29.95
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Vendor: Ian Stewart
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and...- $46.99
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Vendor: J. L. Heilbron
Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction
In this Very Short Introduction John Heilbron draws on sources never before presented in English to cover the life and work of one of the most creative physicists of the 20th century. In addition to his role as a scientist, Heilbron considers Bohr as...- $31.99
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Vendor: Nancy Forbes
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men--separated in age by forty years--discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field and devised a radically...- $41.99
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Vendor: Kip Thorne
The Science of Interstellar
Author: Kip ThorneISBN-10: 8200021823ISBN-13: 9798200021826Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs- $36.99
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Vendor: Pedro G. Ferreira
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity
How did one elegant theory incite a scientific revolution?Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. Their work has uncovered a number of the universe's more surprising secrets, and many believe...- $29.95
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Vendor: Ray Jayawardhana
Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them. For more than eighty years, brilliant and eccentric scientists around the world have been searching for the incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos. Trillions of these ghostly...- $29.95
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Vendor: Richard Panek
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Over the past few decades, a handful of scientists have been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only four percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, our books, and every star and planet. The rest is...- $90.00
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Vendor: Marcelo Gleiser
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity--the foundations of science--to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.Since Copernicus,...- $51.99
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Vendor: Simon Schama
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
A vibrant cultural history investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has...- $51.99
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Vendor: Laura Trethewey
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth--the world's seafloor--and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now...- $41.99
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Vendor: Avi Loeb
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
From the New York Times bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity's survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars.In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Sy Montgomery
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants--turtles--and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on...- $41.99
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Vendor: Eli Francovich
The Return of Wolves: An Iconic Predator's Struggle to Survive in the American West
The gray wolf has made an astonishing comeback in Washington. Nearly eradicated by the 1990s, conservationists and environmentalists have cheered its robust return to the state over the last two decades. But Washington ranchers are not so joyous. When wolves prey on livestock, ranchers...- $46.99
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Vendor: Vaclav Smil
Size: How It Explains the World
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about...- $41.99
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Vendor: Marcia Bartusiak
The Day We Found the Universe Lib/E
From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it...- $71.99
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Vendor: Eduardo Kohn
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Author: Eduardo KohnISBN-10: 1665250712ISBN-13: 9781665250719Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Natalie Angier
Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell
As dramatic as The Double Helix and as absorbing as The Soul of a New Machine, Natural Obsessions explores the advanced reaches of molecular biology, the nature of the human cell, and the genes that control cancer. It unforgettably portrays some of the best...- $46.95
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Vendor: Alex Rosenberg
How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of...- $29.99
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Vendor: David Whitehouse
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
Informed by extensive interviews with astronauts such as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, David Scott, John Young, Alan Shepard, Charlie Duke, Al Bean, Gordon Cooper, Al Worden, Walt Cunningham, Tom Stafford, Dick Gordon, John Glenn, Pete Conrad, Edgar Mitchel, James Irwin, Stu Roosa,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Sy Montgomery
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants--turtles--and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on...- $46.99
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Vendor: Saul Griffith
Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal
The country is at a crossroads. In The Wires That Bind, inventor, engineer and visionary Saul Griffith reveals the world that awaits us if we make the most of Australia's energy future.Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empowered local communities acting collectively...- $19.99
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