Category - Science
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Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /How science consultants make movie science plausible, in films ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Finding Nemo. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A S...
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Atlas of Poetic Botany
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances.This Atlas invites the reader to tour th...
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The Atom: A Visual Tour
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /An accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.Until now, popular science has relegated the a...
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What We Know about Climate Change, updated edition
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action.The vast majority of scientists agree that human activ...
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The Character of Physical Law, with new foreword
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An introduction to modern physics and to Richard Feynman at his witty and enthusiastic best, discussing gravitation, irreversibility, symmetry, a...
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A top behavioral geneticist argues DNA inherited from our parents at conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.This “mode...
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Principles of Neural Design
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, “reverse engineering” the brain to unde...
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Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of "sustainability...
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Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana--the Lynds' now iconic Middletown--as a touchstone, David Nye explores ...
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Energy and Civilization: A History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel...
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Thermodynamic Weirdness: From Fahrenheit to Clausius
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An account of the concepts and intellectual structure of classical thermodynamics that reveals the subject's simplicity and coherence. Students...
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made poss...
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The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.Ben Barres wa...
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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation ...
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The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new ev...
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A fascinating exploration of the human brain that combines “the leading edge of consciousness science with surprisingly personal and philosophica...
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The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation ...
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Cosmic Clouds 3-D: Where Stars Are Born
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Amazing 3-D images take readers inside the birth and death of stars.This visually amazing volume, with text and 3-D images, takes readers inside ...
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Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging—and diverging—views on the mind and self, consciousness and the unconscious,...
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Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interes...
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