Category - Science
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E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time—a riveting memoir of his youth and his love af...
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On Human Nature / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the p...
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was t...
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The End of Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, re...
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /“Oh, what a delightful book! This is the clearest explanation of relativity available—and the most fun. It’s great to have it available again. Wh...
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, an intriguing and illuminating look at how ...
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller We live in complicated, dangerous times. Present and future presidents need to know if North Korea's nascent...
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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of d...
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Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“Bill Bryson is as amusing as ever. ... As a celebration of 350 years of modern science, Seeing Further is a worthy tribute.” —The Economist Join...
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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
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 leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the b...
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The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
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 playful, profound book that is not only a testament to one man's efforts to be deemed more human than a computer, but also a rollicking explora...
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone "who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here"...
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Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the...
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Wisconsin State Parks: Extraordinary Stories of Geology and 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| /Hit the trail for a dramatic look at Wisconsin’s geologic past. The impressive bluffs, valleys, waterfalls, and lakes of Wisconsin’s state parks ...
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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger ...
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Gray's Anatomy Puzzle Book
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Think you know your cranium from your clavicle? Tibia from your trachea? Think again… Test your brain, solve riddles and learn about how the body...
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The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2022 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNER FOR LYRIC PROSE—In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an...
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Bones: Inside and Out
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A lively, illustrated exploration of the 500-million-year history of bone, a touchstone for understanding vertebrate life and human culture. Huma...
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Projections: The New Science of Human Emotion
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at...
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's...
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring gu...
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Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /2005 has been designated "World Year of Physics" to celebrate the publication of Einstein's Theory of Relativity one hundred years ago. In commem...
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Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications
PaperbackOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /QUANTUM MECHANICS An innovative approach to quantum mechanics that seamlessly combines textbook and problem-solving book into one Quantum Mechani...
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