Category - Science
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After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEOn May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven ...
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Bold Forecast: The Hurricane Agnes Deluge
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Numbers: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$104.99$104.99 - $104.99Current price $104.99| /Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to wo...
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Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience is the compelling story of the history and science behind vitamin C.Vitamin...
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The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "An essential read."-The Washington Post "Essential... This book belongs on the shelf next to Merchants of ...
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They Believed That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World
HardcoverOriginal price $107.00 - Original price $107.00Original price $107.00$125.99$125.99 - $125.99Current price $125.99| /This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world. This book ...
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Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An exploration of humanity's relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men remi...
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-...
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The Chemical History of a Candle
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Chemical History of a Candle is an enlightening and engaging exploration of the science behind the humble candle. Written by the renowned scien...
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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /If we were to judge humanity's greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collect...
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The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key even...
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A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
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 breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause--A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the my...
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A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause--A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the my...
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narro...
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance,...
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture--"one...
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as ...
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The Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where th...
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T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2020 Foreword Indie Award Honorable Mention in the "Science & Technology" Category Late in 2017, the global significance of the conversation ab...
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
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 first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born i...
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Rediscovery of North America
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of m...
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the wor...
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The Galapagos: A Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern P...
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The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into ...
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