Category - Science
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The Visible Unseen: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winnin...
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Dino Poems and Fossil Bones
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /April Rhodes James has created an entertaining book of original dinosaur poems to offer her insights about various dinosaurs and prehistoric animal...
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Of Men and Numbers: The Story of the Great Mathematicians
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Of Men and Numbers, first published in 1963, is a fascinating look at the lives and works of history's greatest mathematicians. Beginning with the ...
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The Mushroom Fan Club
HardcoverOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Appeared on Best of 2018 lists from Quill & Quire and the Globe and Mail "Although the fungi are anthropomorphized with cartoon eyes and goofy...
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bes...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form ...
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Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Photo: to do with light. Phyto: plants and flowers. Proto: the first, the original. Nitro: it blows up.From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nu...
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Beyond the Brink is the Beginning
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /In these pages you will find hope. Beyond the Brink is the Beginning is a deeply connecting and soothing balm for eco-anxiety. The poems in this bo...
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Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emph...
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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to challenge socially construct...
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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common?...
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.Imagine the astonishment felt b...
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The Orphic Astrologer Critodemus: Fragments with Annotated Translation and Commentary
HardcoverOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astrology is marred by the sca...
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Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...
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Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...
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Meditations: The Philosophy Classic
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journal...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnso...
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bes...
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick**A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read**A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April**A BookRiot Science Book to Add ...
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, au...
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Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A “romance in many dimensions” that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theoryA Penguin...
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The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /If you have ever suspected that "heavy water" is the title of a bootleg Pink Floyd album, believed that surface tension is an anxiety disorder, o...
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative...
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The Cartoon Guide to Biology
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner comes this comprehensive and humorous ca...
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