Category - Science
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The Edge Of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the bigg...
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How the World Looks to a Bee: And Other Moments of Science
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions...
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Tides: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitat...
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The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are ...
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Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Discover the similarities and striking beauty in the writings and sayings from science and the teachings of Buddhism.Provocative, stimulating, an...
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A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religio...
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La medusa inmortal: Todo lo que hay que saber para vivir m s a os
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /¿Podemos calcular nuestra esperanza de vida a partir del momento físico en el que estamos? ¿Se puede estimular el proceso de autorregeneración de...
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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears every...
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Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning...
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Evolution of Physics
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Originally published in 1938 by Cambridge University Press, The Evolution of Physics traces the development of ideas in physics, in a manner suit...
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Next Time You See a Pill Bug
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Chances are that just under a nearby rock, you’ll spot a roly-poly pill bug. Encourage a child to take a close look, and introduce a fascinating ...
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What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries - and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting–edge developments that are already changing the course of our future Every day, scientists cond...
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Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from nothing! It turns out that almost nothing is ...
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Pull Don't Push: Why STEM Messaging to Girls Isn't Working and What to Do Instead
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /You need to hear the bad news first: the results of STEM outreach to girls haven't improved in twenty years. The good news? This book will tell y...
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Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to th...
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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof Scientific theory...
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Time Travel: The Science 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| /Fact or fiction? Real or impossible? Movement through time explored, examined and explained! Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity postulates, ...
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The Surprising World of Bacteria with Max Axiom, Super Scientist
PaperbackOriginal price $8.10 - Original price $8.10Original price $8.10$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /You've never had a science teacher like this! Max Axiom is a super-cool super-scientist. Using powers he acquired in a freak accident, Max demon...
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Circadian Rhythms: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity...
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.comIt’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form...
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Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of th...
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What, If Anything, Is Out There?
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /"A newly released U.S. report on unidentified flying objects says 143 sightings since 2004 remain unexplained. It does not rule out alien activit...
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Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“This book comes at just the right moment. It is NOT too late if we get together and take action, NOW.” —Jane GoodallFears about climate change a...
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No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The extraordinary story of the scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led expeditions to Brazil...
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