Category - Science
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C. S. Lewis' War Against Scientism and Naturalism: A Detailed Examination of His Views
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /It is commonly assumed that C S Lewis was a theistic evolutionist. In fact, he was one of the most effective anti-evolutionist of the last century....
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Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the return of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery wo...
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Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition--From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world—and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most ...
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What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping as the finest thriller' - Peter JamesDiscover t...
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Strange Beauty
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the...
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The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse c...
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The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables During a year on sabbatical from his university p...
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How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Philosopher Helena de Bres uses the curious experience of being a twin as a lens for reconsidering our place in the world, with illustrations by ...
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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in nin...
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Space Bites: Reflections of a NASA Food Scientist
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"During her decades-long career at NASA, my friend and colleague Vickie Kloeris made sure my fellow astronauts and I were well-fed and healthy whil...
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Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside - Finding Home in an English Country Garden
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize, moving between Trinidad and an idyllic English country garden, this lyrical and reflective book is about the se...
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
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 bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs s...
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Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An exploration of science, motherhood, and academia, and a stirring account of a woman at a personal and professional crossroads . . .Growing up...
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The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles o...
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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos—a dramatic re...
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The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Lab Girl meets Why Fish Don’t Exist in this “compelling blend of memoir, environmental writing, and scientific exploration” (Kirkus Reviews) from...
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerDetermined protester, author, now dominant world voice for environmental redress, Greta Thunberg provides us with a res...
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Water and Peace: A Journey Through the World's Most Explosive Conflict Zones in Search of Deep Water
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace. With the growing impact of climate cha...
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André Michaux in Florida: An Eighteenth-Century Botanical Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Botanists, historians, and amateur naturalists alike will delight in this meticulous telling of Andre Michaux's journey in Florida. Michaux's pass...
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A Heart Afire: Helen Brooke Taussig's Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A deeply compelling biography of the pioneering children's heart doctor Helen Taussig, who helped start heart surgery and became a global force aga...
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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Jou...
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "brilliant [and] entrancing" (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the livin...
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christ...
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The Lightning Tamers: True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric tim...
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