Category - Science
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Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
HardcoverOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the scientist duo behind True or Poo?, their original New York Times bestselling sensation—a scientifically precise, fully illustrated, utte...
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Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
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 lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild. "Delightful."—The Gu...
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist “A superb journalist, in the most honorable tradition of that craft.” —Howard Zinn ...
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Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A novelist and a neuroscientist uncover the secrets of human memory.What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?With...
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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Re...
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2012 New York Times Top 10 Book of the YearSlate.com 2012 Staff Pick In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddl...
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1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Join journalist Devi Lockwood as she bikes around the world collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and rising seas are chang...
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Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur's book tells the appeal...
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El libro de la física (The Physics Book)
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Grandes ideas, explicaciones sencillasCon una prosa sencilla, El libro de la física presenta explicaciones claras y concisas que desbrozan la jer...
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The Making of You: The Incredible Journey from Cell to Human
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A quirky and inspired guide to your very own origin story. This enlightening and irresistible book for adults explains how you were made—not with...
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The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research Scientists have long struggled to ma...
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Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in natureWhile we joke that men are from Mars and women are fro...
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National Geographic Readers: Amazon Animals (L3): 100 Fun Facts About Snakes, Sloths, Spiders, and More
HardcoverOriginal price $15.90 - Original price $15.90Original price $15.90$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Journey to the Amazon—the world’s largest rainforest and home to more animal species than any place on Earth—and discover the creatures that live...
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Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light ...
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Kingdom of Frost: How the Cryosphere Shapes Life on Earth
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An award-winning science journalist explains what Earth’s frozen waters tell us about the past, present, and future of humanity. “The Kingdom of ...
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Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Winner of the Silver Medal for Environment/Ecology in the 2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsFritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activi...
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The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /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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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Scien...
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Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race...
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Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these c...
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Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group of people in the city of...
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Why Trust Science?
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccine...
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Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laur...
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On Solid Ground: Why the Earth Isn't as Controversial as You May Think
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /On Solid Ground illustrates what geologists know about the earth by telling the stories of the people who made major geological discoveries. It a...
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