Category - Science
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A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women. Johns Hopkins Un...
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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection* The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed mod...
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Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the ...
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire, the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of wha...
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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Why understanding evolution--the most reviled branch of science--can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism Evolutionary science ha...
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Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"EMPOWERING...KINARI WEBB IS AN INSPIRATION." --BILL MCKIBBEN "A WONDERFUL BOOK." --JANE GOODALL A TIMELY, HOPEFUL MEMOIR ABOUT A WOMAN SPEARHEADIN...
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The Visible Unseen: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winnin...
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Visions of Linus Pauling
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /'...this book is a valuable contribution to the extensive literature by and about a great scientist and citizen. Highly recommended. All readers.'C...
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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This momentou...
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Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physica...
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John Von Neumann
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicatin...
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El Libro del Clima / The Climate Book
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Greta Thunberg une a cientÃficos, expertos, activistas y escritores como Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, David Wallace-Wells o Naomi Klein para o...
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Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Leaders in STEM
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"Lessons Learned brings us the stories of thirty-one brilliant women in STEM who overcame the odds to push science forward while paving the way for...
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLIST The story of the urgent fight to save coral ree...
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Love Your Mother: 50 States, 50 Stories, and 50 Women United for Climate Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /From elder voices opposing the Dakota Pipeline to young people running for office to advocate for change, every day we see real-life stories about ...
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Looking Up: The True Adventures of a Storm-Chasing Weather Nerd
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An energetic and electrifying narrative about all things weather--by one of today's rising meteorological stars. Get in--we're going storm-chasing!...
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The Order of Time
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times...
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Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Science, nature, and adventure come together in this riveting account of a solo bike trip along the migratory path of the monarch butterfly. Sara ...
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Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now in paperback, the life story of a world-famous astronaut who was a trailblazer for women and is a role model today Eileen Collins was an aviati...
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--...
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of he...
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Lab Girl: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and s...
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The Genius of Birds
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of 'bird brains, ' Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . ." --New York Times Bo...
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY - The heartrending stor...
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