Category - Science
-
Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
HardcoverOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the scientist duo behind True or Poo?, their original New York Times bestselling sensation—a scientifically precise, fully illustrated, utte...
View full details -
Combining
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalcula...
View full details -
Middle School Science Education: Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Vol. III, Grades 6-8
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How to Teach Science for Kids' SuccessThe "Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding" (BFSU) series provides lesson plans that will enable...
View full details -
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly ...
View full details -
Viruses: The Invisible Enemy
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /bFor all our hubris, humans can be felled rapidly by an invisible enemy - viruses./bAll around us are minute entities that can damage and kill: t...
View full details -
The Benefit of the Doubt: It's all about understanding how the primeval matter began to operate and grew into the Milky Way Galaxy
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy First peaked my attention. It's an interesting object because its shape offers challenging actions to come tru...
View full details -
Texas Solar Eclipses: The upcoming celestial spectacle coming to Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Solar eclipses in a single location on earth are quite rare, but the state of Texas is about to have two within a year! Find out more about the u...
View full details -
Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /While we worry over the depletion of the earth's natural resources, the pollution of our planet, and the challenges presented by the earth's grow...
View full details -
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos fille...
View full details -
Reading the Landscape of America / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this natural history classic, the author takes the reader on field trips to landscapes across America, both domesticated and wild. She shows h...
View full details -
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks ...
View full details -
Physics of Electric Propulsion
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this text systematically develops the concepts of electrical acceleration of gases f...
View full details -
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster. Product ...
View full details -
The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"This is a wonderful book. Frances Ashcroft has a rare gift for making difficult subjects accessible and fascinating." —Bill Bryson, author of Th...
View full details -
The Handy Astronomy Answer Book
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95Original price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Unraveling the Mysteries of the Night Sky. Fact-filled and image-rich guide to the principles of astronomy, its history, a host of fun facts, and...
View full details -
Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Gordon Gould woke up one night in his Bronx, New York, apartment, opened a laboratory notebook and wrote: "Some rough calculations on the feasibi...
View full details -
Physical Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /With the development of a variety of exciting new areas of research involving computational chemistry, nano- and smart materials, and application...
View full details -
Gravity: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature. It also has the distinction of being the oldest, weakest, and most diff...
View full details -
The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of those--scientists and non-scientists alike-...
View full details -
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural hi...
View full details -
The Secret Lives of Glaciers
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Geographer, adventurer, environmental educator, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and write...
View full details -
Embracing Limits: A Radical and Necessary Approach to the Environmental Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /RADICAL MEASURES ARE NECESSARY If you've ever wondered where we're headed, and what a truly sustainable future might look like-this is the book ...
View full details -
Notes on Nursing
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. It was intended to give hints on nursi...
View full details -
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental Deception And The Battle Against Pollution
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong ba...
View full details