Category - Science
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100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Scienc...
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year"[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee’s grand t...
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Battle of the Brains: The Science Behind Animal Minds
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! CYBILS Finalist! This hilarious companion to Battle of the Butts examines the way animals use the...
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The Time Nature Keeps: A Visual Guide to the Cycles and Time Spans of the Natural World
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /With stunning infographics on every page, this riveting visual guide reveals the mind-bending marvels of nature’s timescales both large and minus...
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Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The story of recorded sound—the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to ...
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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
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 respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the un...
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Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers—and what their fate means for our shared futureThe ice sheets and...
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Simply The Brain
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The human brain is a most remarkable organ, but how well do we really understand the way it works?What is a brain and what is the mind? Do you on...
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Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Short History of Nearly Everything meets Astrophysics for People in a Hurry in this humorous, accessible exploration of how meteorites have hel...
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A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman's latest book offers an explanation-beyond wha...
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Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human speciesWhether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution....
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Art of Botanical Illustration
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /• A comprehensive and accessible historical and artistic survey of botanical illustration • Perhaps the most important book on botanical paintin...
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Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction...
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental rol...
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Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly ...
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The Secret Lives of Glaciers
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Geographer, adventurer, environmental educator, 2018 TED Fellow and National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer Dr. M Jackson studies and write...
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Notes on Nursing
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. It was intended to give hints on nursi...
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Worlds in Collision
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founde...
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Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The story of human evolution has fascinated us like no other: we seem to have an insatiable curiosity about who we are and where we have come fro...
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Simply Astronomy
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The simplest guide to astronomy and stargazing!Grasping astronomy has never been easier. Your awe of the night sky will soon turn into knowledge ...
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Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave?...
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
HardcoverOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughsA forty-year tightening of fu...
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Black Hole Survival Guide
HardcoverOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space—an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and cha...
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-y...
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