Category - Science
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Lookout: Love, Solitude, and Searching for Wildfire in the Boreal Forest
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the ...
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Love Your Mother: 50 States, 50 Stories, and 50 Women United for Climate Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /From elder voices opposing the Dakota Pipeline to young people running for office to advocate for change, every day we see real-life stories about ...
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A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
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 breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause--A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the my...
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A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause--A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the my...
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narro...
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Lab Girl: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and s...
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns wit...
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Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition--From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world—and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most ...
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The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse c...
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The never-before-told story of NASA’s 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian...
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly ...
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The never-before-told story of NASA's 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian A...
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Madame Curie: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. ...
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. “Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamical...
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory neede...
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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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Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to r...
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The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the “Great Man” myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane ...
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Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"A short, excellent account of [Leavitt’s] extraordinary life and achievements." —Simon Singh, New York Times Book Review George Johnson brings t...
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The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse c...
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