Category - Science
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Why Trust Science?
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccine...
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Time Travel: The Science and Science Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Fact or fiction? Real or impossible? Movement through time explored, examined and explained! Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity postulates, ...
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Emergence: From Chaos To Order
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In this important book, John H. Holland dramatically shows us that the "emergence" of order from disorder has much to teach us about life, mind a...
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The Science of Monsters: The Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Featured on NPR’s Science Friday, an “ingenious” (The Wall Street Journal) and insightful guide to history’s legendary and frightening monsters a...
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Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The story of recorded sound—the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to ...
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The Science of Avatar
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Audiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron's visionary Avatar, with its glimpse of the Na'vi on the marvelous world of Pando...
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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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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged ants, horned humans, a la...
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Marijuana Botany: An Advanced Study: The Propagation and Breeding of Distinctive Cannabis
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Marijuana Botany presents the scientific knowledge and propagation techniques used to preserve and multiply vanishing Cannabis strains. Also incl...
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The Physics of Star Trek
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /How does the Star Trek universe stack up against the real universe? What warps when you're traveling at warp speed? What is the difference betwee...
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The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition
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 complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more hero's, more villains, and more science Since 2001, ...
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Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity, and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /This is the story of John Draper, Andrew White, and the conflict thesis: a centuries-old misconception that religion and science are at odds with...
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Space Craze: America's Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A space historian's tour through astounding spaceflight history and the Smithsonian's collection of space and science fiction memorabilia Spanning ...
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The Einstein Effect: How the World's Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A fascinating and funny guide to history's favorite genius--and why he still matters." --A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling authorA fascinati...
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How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What I...
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Religion of Sports: Navigating the Trials of Life Through the Games We Love
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the acclaimed director who has gone behind the scenes with many of the greatest athletes in the world, a memoir-meets-manifesto featuring neve...
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
Library BindingOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9798885794657 Media Type: Library Binding Publisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Comp Publication Date: 12-06-...
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick**A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read**A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April**A BookRiot Science Book to Add ...
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Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live t...
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PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00Original price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Alexander (better known as “Sasha”) and Ann Shulgin’s PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story has become a foundational work in the genre and was the firs...
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TIHKAL: The Continuation
PaperbackOriginal price $33.00Original price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /TiHKAL: The Continuation is the sequel to PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story but can stand alone to any reader. Where PiHKAL focuses on a class of com...
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What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A richly illustrated guide to the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar system, with stories and information about c...
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The Science of Rick and Morty: The Unofficial Guide to Earth's Stupidest Show
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Explore the real science behind the Cartoon Network phenomenon Rick and Morty—one of television’s most irreverent, whip-smart, and darkly hilario...
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Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transf...
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