Category - Science
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The Lightning Tamers: True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /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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A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781982184551 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 04-18-2023 Pages: 320 Product Dimensi...
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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Intriguing and well-written."--The Wall Street Journal The epic story of how, amid two world wars, history's greatest physicists redefined the uni...
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How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Blending personal anecdotes with hard science, an accomplished physician, researcher, and science communicator gives you the tools to avoid medical...
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
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 the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of deat...
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly ...
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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the cosmos--a dramatic rev...
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PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00Original price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Alexander (better known as “Sasha”) and Ann Shulgin’s PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story has become a foundational work in the genre and was the firs...
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Madame Curie: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. ...
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TIHKAL: The Continuation
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00Original price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /TiHKAL: The Continuation is the sequel to PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story but can stand alone to any reader. Where PiHKAL focuses on a class of com...
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /On Valentine’s Day 1985, biologist Stacey O’Brien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in the wild. O...
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).In...
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The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Equal parts biography, natural history, and travelogue, Jack Nisbet tells the story of David Douglas, the 19th century Scottish naturalist and bo...
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My Inventions and Other Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.Famous for his pioneering cont...
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Edward Dolnick’s smoothly written history of the scientific revolution tells the stories of the key players and events that transformed society....
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What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, bu...
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. “Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamical...
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The definitive account of Tesla's life and workNikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at t...
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of ...
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This gripping story of the doctors at the forefront of Alzheimer’s research and the courageous North Dakota family whose rare genetic code is hel...
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Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The book that sparked the modern environmental movement, with an unprecedented collection of letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal th...
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Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95Original price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be...
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Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel tells the fascinating Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic restor...
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts Barbara Lipska's deadly brain cancer and explains its u...
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