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Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientifi...
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Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry That Created the Nuclear Age
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Called "one of our best science popularizers" by Publishers Weekly, Amir D. Aczel tackles the cause of one of last century's most destructive eve...
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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of co...
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705,...
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offe...
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astr...
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-...
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T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2020 Foreword Indie Award Honorable Mention in the "Science & Technology" Category Late in 2017, the global significance of the conversation ab...
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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Reading is perhaps the essential ...
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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - 2022 IPPY AWARDS GOLD MEDALIST -- SCIENCE - NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST -- POLITICAL - 2021 WORLD MA...
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Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political a...
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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Walter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this innovative biography of the famous physicist told in nin...
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Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition): What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye...
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientis...
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An NPR Best Book of the Year An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Ja...
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A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A fascinating, “rich, and generous” (Financial Times) look at the treatment of depression by an award-winning science writer that blends popular ...
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Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwrec...
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An NPR Best Book of the Year An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Ja...
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in." —Financial Times A companion ...
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No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“The most honest book about climate change yet.” —The Atlantic“The Infinite Jest of climate books.” —The BafflerA timely, eye-opening book about ...
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