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Vendor:Neil Degrasse Tyson
Origins, Revised and Updated: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and crosspollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features...- $31.95
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Vendor:Gene Kranz
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Author: Gene KranzISBN-10: 820008969XISBN-13: 9798200089697Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2011Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $57.99
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Vendor:Sabine Hossenfelder
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad scienceWhether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones....- $29.99
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Vendor:Jean-Claude Ellena
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the master himself takes you through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing...- $14.99
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Vendor:Kai Bird
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the...- $44.95
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Vendor:Neil Degrasse Tyson
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all. In a time...- $29.99
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Vendor:Madlen Ziege
Nature Is Never Silent: How Animals and Plants Communicate with Each Other
For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other.In forests, fields, and even gardens, there is a constant exchange of information going on. Animals...- $39.99
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Vendor:Marianne E. Krasny
In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis
In This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis.Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of "network climate action"―the idea that our own ordinary acts can...- $31.95
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Vendor:Various Authors
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific,...- $31.95
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Vendor:Natalie Angier
The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life
Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know--and sometimes more--about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go...- $31.95
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Vendor:Natalie Angier
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. The Canon is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic.Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and...- $31.95
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Vendor:Natalie Angier
Woman: An Intimate Geography
A revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier's bestselling guide to―and celebration of―the female bodyWoman is a fascinating, fact-filled guide that covers everything from organs to orgasms, hormones to hysterectomies. With her characteristic clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language, bestselling author Natalie...- $46.95
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Vendor:Adam Rutherford
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England...- $31.95
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Vendor:Rina Bliss
Rethinking Intelligence: A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential
A genetics expert and professor challenges our understanding of intelligence, explaining what it truly means to be "smart," why conventional assessments are misleading, and what everyone can do to optimize their potential.Growing up in middle-class suburban Los Angeles in the 1980s, Rina Bliss was...- $41.99
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Vendor:Rina Bliss
Rethinking Intelligence: A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential
A genetics expert and professor challenges our understanding of intelligence, explaining what it truly means to be "smart," why conventional assessments are misleading, and what everyone can do to optimize their potential.Growing up in middle-class suburban Los Angeles in the 1980s, Rina Bliss was...- $36.99
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Vendor:Michael Milken
Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health
Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to...- $41.99
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Vendor:Rebecca Heisman
Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology they developed to uncover the secrets of avian migration.For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate...- $41.99
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Vendor:Leah Hazard
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
"Page for page, I may not have ever learned more from a book.... Womb is a history book as well as a biology book but it's also an adventure and a celebration." --Rob Delaney, actor and author of A Heart That WorksA groundbreaking, triumphant...- $41.99
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Vendor:Andreas Killen
Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ.The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the...- $41.99
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Vendor:Paul Bloom
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all timeHow does the brain--a three-pound wrinkly mass--give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by...- $41.99
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Vendor:Cutter Wood
Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions--from mucus to sweat to poop--revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving...- $41.99
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Vendor:Dan Levitt
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled...- $41.99
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Vendor:John Hands
The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic
This is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK's Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans...- $31.95
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Vendor:Galileo Galilei
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science...- $31.95
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Vendor:Meredith Bagby
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
The never-before-told story of NASA's 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the...- $57.99
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Vendor:George Johnson
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
A forgotten heroine of science and how she solved one of the crucial mysteries of the universe.How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy. Their champion...- $21.95
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Vendor:Leah Elson
There Are (No) Stupid Questions ... in Science
Leah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, for an irreverent debut that answers all sorts of scientific questions--from the age-old to the ridiculous to the sublime--posed by her fans around the world.There Are (No) Stupid Questions ... in...- $31.95
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Vendor:Leah Elson
There Are (No) Stupid Questions ... in Science
Leah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, for an irreverent debut that answers all sorts of scientific questions--from the age-old to the ridiculous to the sublime--posed by her fans around the world.There Are (No) Stupid Questions ... in...- $36.95
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Vendor:Alistair Moffat
Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms: Deserves a prominent place in the history canon (Scots Magazine). Covering the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, the acclaimed historian and author explores the history of...- $29.99
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Vendor:Brendan Borrell
The First Shots Lib/E: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
The full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemic Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive through compulsively readable, first-time reporting on the players leading...- $28.00
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Vendor:Scott Barry Kaufman
Ungifted Lib/E: Intelligence Redefined
Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest...- $29.98
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Vendor:Frank Wilczek
The Lightness Being Lib/E: 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:Jed Brody
Quantum Entanglement Lib/E
Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schringer's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not...- $19.99
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Vendor:Vaclav Smil
Energy and Civilization Lib/E: A History
Author: Vaclav SmilISBN-10: 8200556174ISBN-13: 9798200556175Publisher: Gildan Media CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2018Format: CD- $29.99
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Vendor:Patrick Girard Lawlor
Biogeography: A Very Short Introduction
Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life--ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our planet's sufrace. From the ancient hunters and gatherers to the...- $31.99
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Vendor:Frans de Waal
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Author: Frans de WaalISBN-10: 8200117863ISBN-13: 9798200117864Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2009Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $41.99
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Vendor:David Quammen
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
This is the account of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the...- $39.99
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Vendor:Michael Guillen
Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith
In Believing Is Seeing, Dr. Guillen recounts the fascinating story of his journey from atheism to Christianity, citing the latest discoveries in neuroscience, physics, astronomy, and mathematics to pull back the curtain on the mystery of faith as no one ever has. Is it...- $19.99
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Vendor:Annalee Newitz
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Author: Annalee NewitzISBN-10: 1665115629ISBN-13: 9781665115629Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2021Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs- $41.99
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Vendor:Moiya McTier
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
Astrophysicist and folklorist Dr. Moiya McTier channels The Milky Way in this approachable and utterly fascinating autobiography of the titular galaxy, detailing what humans have discovered about everything from its formation to its eventual death, and what more there is to learn about this...- $45.00
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Vendor:Jonathan Cowley
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane
A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father,...- $41.99
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Vendor:Tracy Daugherty
Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed.In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in...- $24.95
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Vendor:Shane O'Mara
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration
Author: Shane O'MaraISBN-10: 1665116498ISBN-13: 9781665116497Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2020Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs- $41.99
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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...- $34.95
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Vendor:Tom Phillips
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
This is a book about TRUTH--and all the ways we try to avoid it--from the bestselling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up.We live in a "post-truth" world, we're told. But was there ever really a golden age...- $29.99
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Vendor:Amitav Ghosh
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines...- $29.95
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Vendor:Charlie McDonnell
Fun Science: A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science Is So Awesome
Welcome, fellow humans (and others), to the world of Fun Science I'm Charlie, also known across the Internet as charlieissocoollike. In my book I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the big bang through to the solar system...- $9.99
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Vendor:Thomas S. Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and...- $14.99
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Vendor:Natalie Angier
The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life
Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know--and sometimes more--about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go...- $41.95
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Vendor:Natalie Angier
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. The Canon is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic.Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and...- $46.95
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