Category - Science
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Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a School Teacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles Lapworth was a schoolteacher. It was their personal and...
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Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico helped establish the field of archaeoastronomy, and it remains the standard introduction to this subject. Combining...
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Sapiens/Homo Deus box set
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00Original price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Discover humanity’s past and its future in this in this special box set featuring the bestselling Sapiens—a reading pick of President Barack Obam...
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A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00Original price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00Current price $63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discov...
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Numbers: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$104.99$104.99 - $104.99Current price $104.99| /Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to wo...
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Tools and the Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operat...
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Galen on the Pulses
HardcoverOriginal price $144.99 - Original price $144.99Original price $144.99$175.99$175.99 - $175.99Current price $175.99| /The arterial pulse was a major aspect of all three major medical traditions - Western, Chinese and Indian. Galen's extant works are the only signif...
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New Rome: The Empire in the East
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A Times of London Book of the YearLonglisted for the Runciman Award“The most compelling fusion yet of narrative history with the recent findings ...
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Giza: The Tesla Connection: Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Reveals how the pyramids of Egypt were sophisticated generators of clean energy• Explains how the pyramids harmonized seismic energy, which enabl...
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A Gift of Geology: Ancient Egyptian Landscapes and Monuments
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An introduction to the geology of Egypt and its influence on ancient Egyptian culture While much is known about Egypt's towering pyramids, mighty o...
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Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher...
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the m...
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A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discov...
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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time. From the decipherment of hie...
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The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
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 fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of c...
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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /After the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk...
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“The first complete chronological narrative of the species from emergence to extinction. . . .[A] gem.” —Nature Winner of the Society for America...
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