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Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break—and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behavior more effectivelyWe all ...
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First Dawn: From the Big Bang to Our Future in Space
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the very first moments of the universe to the birth of the first star, our solar system, and our planet: a physicist traces the known and th...
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Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How did the dog become man’s best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the ...
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The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are ...
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The Brain Under Siege: Solving the Mystery of Brain Disease, and How Scientists are Following the Clues to a Cure
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /1 in 6 people suffer from brain diseases like MS, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s. Now, a Harvard neurologist takes you inside the brain under attac...
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Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explains why there is no such thing as a male or fem...
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The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live
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 perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling.”—Bill BrysonA revolutionary new vision of human biology and the scientific ...
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Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner“It’s stimulating fun when the assumptions and interpretations of scientific findings must ...
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Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /One of Physics Worlds Best of Physics in 2020From Aristotle's Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneo...
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This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /For readers of Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Katie Mack, and anyone who wants to know what theoretical physicists actually do.This Way to the Unive...
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Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit: What They Don't Tell You About the Climate Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Have you heard that you should go vegan to save the planet? Or carbon offset your flight to mitigate its effects? Or invest in an ethical pension...
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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Why our cats are a danger to species diversity and human healthIn 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New ...
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Created Cosmos: What the Bible Reveals About Astronomy
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A book such as this has not been written in more than a century! This text investigates what the Bible has to say about astronomical objects and...
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All You Need to Know About Spiders
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /All You Need to Know About Spiders Spiders are super predators and devour everything they can overpower. To do this, they have developed incre...
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They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they se...
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A Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox: Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science, 1475-1550
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 first full study in the English language to give context to the extraordinary life and seminal work of the Nuremburg mathematician, cartograp...
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The Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change: A Complete Visual Guide / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Encyclopedia of Weather features:• Spectacular color photographs, detailed diagrams, beautiful graphics, and maps• Easy-to-understand text that i...
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Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos
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 astonishing science of neutron stars and the stories of the scientists who study them.Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. T...
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NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format (12 × 12 inches) NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentativ...
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Atlas of Poetic Botany
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances.This Atlas invites the reader to tour th...
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The End of Certainty
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of...
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his p...
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Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
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 fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life.Of all the radioactive elements discovered...
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Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon MuskMany societies have imagined going to live in space. What they wan...
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