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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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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...- $56.95
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Vendor: Christopher M. Palmer
Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--And Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, Ocd, Pts
This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life.We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis, and mental...- $46.95
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Vendor: Chloe Cannon
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind
A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information. Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli spark neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. This has fostered a view of the brain as a...- $41.99
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Vendor: Steve Brusatte
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY. -- Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet's great...- $39.99
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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: F. Perry Wilson
How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
Blending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician, researcher, and science communicator pulls back the curtain on medicine and medical research, revealing how progress is made--and how to rebuild trust between doctors and patients "A brilliant step toward patients and physicians alike reclaiming...- $45.00
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Vendor: Nicklas Brendborg
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
This eye-opening book offers a revelatory scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality-and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom,...- $45.00
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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...- $29.99
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Vendor: Johan Ekl
The Darkness Manifesto: Our Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life...- $29.99
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Vendor: Jake Bittle
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
The untold story of climate migration--the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future.When the subject of migration that will be caused by global...- $44.99
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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...- $41.95
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Vendor: Sabrina Imbler
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
"A miraculous, transcendental book. Sabrina Imbler is a generational talent, and this book is a gift to us all." -- ED YONG, New York Times Bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science...- $45.00
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Vendor: Steven Weinberg
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic. Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars,...- $45.00
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Vendor: David Colacci
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Author: David Colacci, Nicholas P. MoneyISBN-10: 166521726XISBN-13: 9781665217262Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs- $36.99
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Vendor: Avi Loeb
Extraterrestrial Lib/E: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Harvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star.In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it...- $49.99
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Vendor: Erik Vance
Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
This riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations and beliefs...- $34.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Dean Moore
Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
At once joyous and somber, this thoughtful gathering of new and selected essays spans Kathleen Dean Moore's distinguished career as a tireless advocate for environmental activism in the face of climate change. In this meditation on the music of the natural world, Moore celebrates...- $46.99
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Vendor: R. Philip Bouchard
The Stickler's Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation: The Real Science Behind Hacky Headlines, Crappy Clickbait, and Suspect Sources
The perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda. We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on television, and in print, science is often communicated through shorthand analogies and phrases...- $46.99
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Vendor: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Neuroscience Fiction: From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "inception," How Neuroscience Is Transforming Sci-Fi Into Reality―while Challeng
What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been asking ourselves for centuries.Science fiction often takes its inspiration from the latest science . ....- $19.99
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Vendor: Alan Jasanoff
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brains To many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific...- $45.00
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Vendor: Lyndsie Bourgon
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us...- $45.00
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Vendor: Scientific American
Mind Over Mood: Understanding Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and depression are two of the most common conditions affecting mental health and overall quality of life, but there are tools for managing them. In this audiobook, we'll explore how depression shows up in the brain, different manifestations of depression and anxiety, various...- $29.95
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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The...- $45.00
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Vendor: Jennifer Sweeton
Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness
Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness shows how mental illness affects the brain and how therapeutic techniques can help heal.Bridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy. Recent advances in affective neuroscience reveal long-held secrets of mental health and illness in...- $29.99
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Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness
Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and Illness shows how mental illness affects the brain and how therapeutic techniques can help heal.Bridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy. Recent advances in affective neuroscience reveal long-held secrets of mental health and illness in...- $39.99
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Vendor: Daniel Siegel
Neurobiology of "We," the: How Relationships, the Mind, and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
From a Founder of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Breakthrough Teachings about Human Development and Healing If you think your mind and your brain are one and the same, think again. According to interpersonal neurobiology pioneer Daniel J. Siegel, the mind actually emerges out of the interaction...- $69.95
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Vendor: Liam Gerrard
Language Unlimited Lib/E: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of...- $71.99
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Vendor: Douglas Brinkley
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go...- $55.99
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Vendor: Elaine Fox
Switch Craft: The Hidden Power of Mental Agility
In clear and accessible language, Elaine Fox shows how psychological science can help you to be agile in meeting challenges and to be flexible when things change. Drawing on personal experience and years of applying her research in coaching elite performance, she shows how...- $41.99
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Vendor: R. Philip Bouchard
The Stickler's Guide to Science in the Age of Misinformation: The Real Science Behind Hacky Headlines, Crappy Clickbait, and Suspect Sources
The perfect remedy for our culture of fake news, bad science, and propaganda. We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too. Online, on television, and in print, science is often communicated through shorthand analogies and phrases...- $41.99
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Vendor: Deborah Birx
Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late
The definitive, inside account of the Trump Administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic from White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member, Dr. Deborah Birx.In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx--a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the...- $67.99
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