Category - Science
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A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted.” —Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago, humanity w...
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The Home of the Blizzard
HardcoverOriginal price $29.75 - Original price $29.75Original price $29.75$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work...
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Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined? Winner of the World Wildlife Fund's 2020 Jan Wolkers Prize...
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The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The moon landing of 1969 stands as an iconic moment for both the United States and humankind. The familiar story focuses on the journey of the br...
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The iconic Periodic Table of the Elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the 'gaps' corresponding to missing e...
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The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Award-winning former investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the life lessons humanity can learn from the twelve remaining Apollo astronauts...
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The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“As David Robson makes plain in this compelling book, the way we think about the world can profoundly shape how we navigate it. Based in science ...
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In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)
HardcoverOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, exe...
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Timelines of Science
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Discover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide bringing key milestones and events to life in visual timelines. O...
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Named one of The New Yorker's BEST BOOKS OF 2022 SO FARThe next frontier in technology is inside our own bodies. Synthetic biology will revolutio...
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How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"There's something intriguing to be learned on practically every page... [How to Astronaut] captures the details of an extraordinary job and turn...
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The Biology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Learn about the most important discoveries and theories of this science in The Biology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book t...
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The Night Sky Month by Month
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Learn how to observe and navigate the night sky with this guide to stargazing for beginners!The dazzling reference book shines bright with crysta...
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The World As I See It
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Einstein revealed in these writings is witty, keenly perceptive, and deeply concerned for humanity. Einstein believed in the possibility of a...
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Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
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 fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plantMonarch butterflies are one of nature's most...
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Ignorance: How It Drives Science
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance—not knowledge—that is the true engine of sc...
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Sentience: The Invention of 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| /The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists.We feel, ther...
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El libro de la biología (The Biology 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 sencillasEl libro de biología es una introducción cautivadora para comprender el mundo vivo, explica cómo funcionan ...
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Machinery of Life / Edition 2
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we’re dream...
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Crystals and Gems: From Mythical Properties to Magical Stories
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Discover the history of precious, semi-precious, and organic gemstones, their scientific properties, their mythical powers, and their traditional...
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Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a w...
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The Science of Plants: Inside Their Secret World
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Combining graceful design and beautiful imagery, this book provides an elegant introduction to the plant kingdom.Discover the extraordinary diver...
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705,...
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Botanicum Medicinale: A Modern Herbal of Medicinal Plants
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A beautifully illustrated, informative, and engaging guide to 100 plants used for medicinal purposes.Remedies derived from plants are the world's...
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