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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achieve...
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Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laur...
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Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual histor...
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The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Eur...
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapul...
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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 Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural hi...
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man’s crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Bea...
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many ...
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Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.The Isl...
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Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revoluti...
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Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $49.00 - Original price $49.00Original price $49.00$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /These selections from Le système du monde, the classic ten-volume history of the physical sciences written by the great French physicist Pierre D...
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Delvings: Italy, Sex, Heresy, Astronomy, and Other Things...
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /I have been interested in France and Italy as well as in the Ancient Greek and Middle Eastern worlds since I was old enough to pour over my grandpa...
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Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Re...
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Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany—including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg—and how they accommodated themselv...
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Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France Since 1954
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores...
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Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fundamental distinction between natural and synthetic chemicals th...
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English coun...
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The Dream of the Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it,...
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development conf...
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achieve...
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Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she calle...
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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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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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