Category - Science
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Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Short History of Nearly Everything meets Astrophysics for People in a Hurry in this humorous, accessible exploration of how meteorites have hel...
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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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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Unexpected LifeThe printing press, the ...
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They Believed That? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World
HardcoverOriginal price $107.00 - Original price $107.00Original price $107.00$125.99$125.99 - $125.99Current price $125.99| /This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world. This book ...
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Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
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 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An exploration of humanity's relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men remi...
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the wor...
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks...
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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A journalist delves into the history, science, and practice of fasting, an ancient cure enjoying a dynamic resurgence. When should we eat, and whe...
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities and countries engulfed by p...
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology One of The New Yorker and Economist’s Best Books of the Year “Quietly ...
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Ru...
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The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
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 illuminating exploration of the rich and varied history--and myriad health benefits--of fasting." --Wall Street Journal When should we eat, an...
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A Short History of Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Immerse yourself in the history of medicine – a colorful story of skill, serendipity, trial and error, moments of genius, and dogged determinatio...
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
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 blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.Playing on the phrase “a theory of everythin...
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