Category - Science
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How to Solve Physics Problems / Edition 2
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening to and engaging with musical, natural, and manmade sounds." —New York Times In t...
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101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Ken Ford's mission is to help us understand the "great ideas" of quantum physics--ideas such as wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle,...
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Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /With this reader-friendly book, it doesn't take an Einstein to understand the theory of relativity and its remarkable consequences. In clear, und...
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How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /“At times this informative book turns wonderfully gross and lovely, reminding us that there’s an entire universe of largely unnoticed creatures a...
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress. The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-U...
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Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Explaining the science behind science fiction and fantasy—from the probable to the impossibleFrom space elevators to interstellar travel, science...
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Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Nautilus Book Awards Silver Award Winner, Animals & Nature Category, 2020 These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into sp...
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The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Teren...
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How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook - Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The essential guide to successful ecological research—now updated and expandedMost books and courses in ecology cover facts and concepts but don'...
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Accidental Medical Discoveries: How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck...
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Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Ending the fossil fuel industry is the only credible path for climate policyAround the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon...
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The Cradle of Humanity: How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currentl...
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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /“Those seeking a grand overview of science’s greatest hits over the past century will find it here” (The Washington Post). Peter Watson’s bold hi...
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The Higgs Fake: How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Did the Nobel Prize In Physics in 2013 Make Einstein Turn In His Grave?The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee is a m...
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Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /With the world desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gases—a desire compounded by the sky-rocketing cost of fossil fuels—nucle...
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Darwin on Trial
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courag...
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone." —Peter Galison, Harvard Un...
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
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Physics: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Physics, the fundamental science of matter and energy, encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of t...
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Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /FINALIST for the 2021 Oregon Book Award. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in Ruby McConnell’s Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a L...
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and de...
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Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /“Superb. . . . A gently studious Bill Bryson crossed with an upbeat and relaxed WG Sebald.”—James McConnachie, Sunday Times (UK) Half of the worl...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Global warming":the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy For decades, environmentalism has been the...
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