Category - Science
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The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate ...
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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Shermer is savage about the shortcomings of intelligent design and eloquent about the spirituality of science . . . An invaluable primer."—Los A...
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Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment...
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at leas...
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Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“Ebbesmeyer’s goal is noble and fresh: to show how the flow of ocean debris around the world reveals ‘the music’ of the world’s oceans.” —New Yo...
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Modern High-Power Rocketry 2 / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This Second Edition of Modern High-Power Rocketry contains more than 800 photographs and illustrations specifically created to introduce the mod...
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The Quantum Self
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modem physics can illuminate our understanding of everyday life — our relationships ...
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Quantum Field Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Quantum field theory remains among the most important tools in defining and explaining the microscopic world. Recent years have witnessed a bloss...
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Our Synthetic Environment
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /2018 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Bookchin wrote Our Synthe...
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A Simple Guide to Popular Physics: An Introduction to Particles, Quantum Physicsand Cosmology for Absolute Beginners
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Harris's inviting guide promises to give "absolute beginners" from "teens to centenarians" a basic grounding in particle physics, quantum physic...
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A First Look at Perturbation Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Undergraduates in engineering and the physical sciences receive a thorough introduction to perturbation theory in this useful and accessible text...
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101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for Beginners
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /See the best that the night sky has to offer.Is there anything more amazing than the night sky? You’ve seen the stars and the constellations—but ...
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Quantum Strangeness: Wrestling with Bell's Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is one of the glories of our age. The theory lies at ...
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Forests: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of ...
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Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of ...
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A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II: From Aristarchus to Diophantus
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival." — Times Literary Supplement"Sir Thomas Heath, foremost English h...
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Trilobites: Common Trilobites of North America (a Natureguide Book)
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A survey of representative trilobite species from North America. It includes meticulous line drawings of 42 species, with information for each co...
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Relativity and Quantum Physics For Beginners
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /As we humans have expanded our horizons to see things vastly smaller, faster, larger, and farther than ever before, we have been forced to confro...
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The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In recent years, neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrationa...
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Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This landmark study by a distinguished physicist develops three important themes: a coherent and inclusive account of Einstein’s theory of relati...
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Zooland: The Institution of Captivity / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all ha...
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Nature's Silent Music
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In this book, Callahan shows how "civilized" insanity is turning Ireland away from her naturally harmonious, aesthetically pleasing, sound practi...
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The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Why, despite all we know about the causes and harms of global heating, has so little effective action been taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions,...
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Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Life's Solution builds a persuasive case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples ...
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