Category - Science
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Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of ...
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /A pioneering treatise on embracing cooperation and reciprocity to usher in a greener and more inclusive world, from the major anarchist thinkerA ...
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The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /2020 upended every aspect of our lives. But where is our world heading next? Will pandemic, economic instability, and social distance lead to dee...
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Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Nuked recounts the long-term effects of radiological exposure in St. Louis, Missouri—the city that refined uranium for the first self- sustaining...
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True Tales of Medical Physics: Insights into a Life-Saving Specialty
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Since the discovery of the x-ray over 125 years ago, scientists and medical professionals alike have harnessed the power of the atom to heal and ...
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice)...
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fine’s funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that we’ve heard Testosterone rex’s...
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly"Excellent and illuminating"—Wall Street JournalIn the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Ra...
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Field Theory: A Modern Primer
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Presents recent advances of perturbative relativistic field theory in a pedagogical and straightforward way. For graduate students who intend to ...
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Happiness
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780262544207 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: MIT Press Publication Date: 01-03-2023 Pages: 304 Product Dimensions: 5.00(w...
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At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books yet written about the multiple intersecting crises that are now upending our once-familiar ...
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Explaining Life Through Evolution
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A broad overview of the science of evolution, and why understanding it matters in our everyday lives. Explaining Life through Evolution tells the o...
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How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the world's leading expert on trust repair, a guide to understanding the most essential foundation of our relationships and communities. When ...
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A Public Sociology of Waste
PaperbackOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Is it possible for individuals to tackle waste by recycling, reusing and reducing alone? This provocative book critically analyses the widespread a...
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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice...
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our ...
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank ...
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasiesEarthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Dro...
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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
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 investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psych...
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The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner's Guide to Settling the Red Planet
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reali...
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Exciting and provocative . . . A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read.”—The Washington Post ...
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