Category - Science
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How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Another masterpiece" (BoingBoing), by Theodore Gray, How Things Work explores the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extra...
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Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“Former NASA official Lori Garver offers a front-row seat to the decades-long struggles within and among space bureaucrats and space billionaires...
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Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But v...
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Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this insightful and revelatory new book, the author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life and Times...
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times b...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human bei...
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The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it. A new space race has begun. But the riva...
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Handbook on Sourdough Biotechnology
HardcoverOriginal price $219.99 - Original price $219.99Original price $219.99$236.99$236.99 - $236.99Current price $236.99| /Bread and leavened bakery products have been essential to human nourishment for millennia. Traditionally, bread production has relied on the use ...
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The Wonder of Genetics: The Creepy, the Curious, and the Commonplace
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This refreshingly clear layperson's overview of genetics shows how heredity actually works and how it is studied in plants and animals, clearly e...
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Food: The Chemistry of Its Components
PaperbackOriginal price $59.99 - Original price $59.99Original price $59.99$67.99$67.99 - $67.99Current price $67.99| /As a source of detailed information on the chemistry of food this book is without equal. The book investigates food components which are present ...
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting cr...
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A compelling appeal, at just the right time, for continuing to look up.”—Air & Space America’s space program is at a turning point. After de...
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Resilient Agriculture: Expanded & Updated Second Edition: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food Practical insights and plenty of examples of how we ca...
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Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind
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 scientist's inspiring vision of our return to the Moon as humanity's next thrilling step in space exploration Just over half a century since Neil...
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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"An ingenious argument" (Kirkus) for a "novel thesis" (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life's past and presen...
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Addressing Earth's Challenges: GIS for Earth Sciences
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Discover The Geographic Approach to enabling science for a more exceptional planet.Place matters to governments and citizens, and location intellig...
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
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 • The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to...
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