Category - Science
-
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
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 most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists h...
View full details -
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
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 devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. From ants ...
View full details -
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
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 comprehensive, eye-opening exploration of what dreams are, where they come from, what they mean, and why we have them. Questions on the origins...
View full details -
National Geographic Science of Everything: How Things Work in Our World
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 Geographic answers all the questions about technology, biology, chemistry, physics, math, engineering, computers, and mechanics—in an in...
View full details -
What Are the Chances?: Why We Believe in Luck
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, 2023 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association Division 1 in General PsychologyMost of us, no matter how rational we t...
View full details -
Cosmic Clouds 3-D: Where Stars Are Born
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Amazing 3-D images take readers inside the birth and death of stars.This visually amazing volume, with text and 3-D images, takes readers inside ...
View full details -
Envisioning Exoplanets: Searching for Life in the Galaxy
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Come along for the captivating hunt for planets like our ownEnvisioning Exoplanets traces the journey of astronomers and researchers on their que...
View full details -
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined-and Redefined-Nature
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to th...
View full details -
Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others.Behavioral ecol...
View full details -
The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and th...
View full details -
Astronomical Mindfulness: Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with engaging exercises that deepen your knowledge...
View full details -
A Little Book about the Big Bang
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 concise introduction to the greatest questions of modern cosmology.What came before the big bang? How will the universe evolve into the future?...
View full details -
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella a...
View full details -
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair...
View full details -
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives. A century ago, discoveries in ph...
View full details -
The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Best Book of 2020 NPRA Best Book of 2020 The EconomistA Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Smithsonian A Best Science & Technology Book of 2...
View full details -
The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
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 riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought. In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan W...
View full details -
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." — Si...
View full details -
Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and ...
View full details -
Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interes...
View full details -
E. O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist (LOA #340)
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 landmark collected edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist, illuminating the marvels of biodiversity in a tim...
View full details -
Star Trek The Official Guide to Our Universe: The True Science Behind the Starship Voyages
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This book reveals the science behind Star Trek’s beloved fictions about the universe, inviting readers to gaze up at the night sky and observe wh...
View full details -
A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for our Destiny in Data
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An illuminating look at the surprising history and science of astrology, civilization’s first system of algorithms, from Babylon to the present d...
View full details -
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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 irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “A...
View full details