Category - Science
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A revelatory look at our national power grid—how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approachi...
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Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A New York Times 2018 Holiday Gift Selection Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America’s native bees—endangered sp...
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How to Lie with Maps, Third Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make—consciously or unconsciously—mean t...
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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /National Bestseller CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hidin...
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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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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A call to action that underscores a common goal: to change the world from the g...
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The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The first in-depth, fully illustrated history of global space discovery and exploration from ancient times to the modern eraThe Smithsonian Histo...
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Instant New York Times Bestseller As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial Ne...
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Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /July 16, 1969. Nearly one million spectators flock to Cape Canaveral to witness the largest rocket ever built send three Americans to the Moon. F...
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The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become commonplace? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In fac...
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The instant New York Times bestseller!A Wall Street Journal Best Science Book of the Year!A Popular Science Best Science Book of the Year! From a...
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Scientists Who Changed History
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and boldly g...
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia spa...
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President J...
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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinar...
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Lunar Outfitters: Making the Apollo Space Suit
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The design processes behind a giant leap for mankindNeil Armstrong in a space suit on the moon remains an iconic representation of America’s tech...
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 • Nature's Top ...
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intellig...
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made poss...
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The Beekeeper's Handbook
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have created the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. The Beekeeper's Handb...
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An Architectural Record Notable BookA fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environmentModern humans are an indoor species. We sp...
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." —The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WS...
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CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean--for science and for all of us?In November 2018, the world was s...
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Physics I For Dummies
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An easy-to-follow guide to introductory physics, from the Big Bang to relativity All science, technology, engineering, and math majors in college...
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