Category - Science
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How the World Looks to a Bee: And Other Moments of Science
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions...
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Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these c...
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Tides: 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 tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitat...
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A Place like No Other: Discovering the Secrets of Serengeti
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /From famed zoologist Anthony Sinclair, an account of his decades-long quest to understand one of Earth's most spectacular ecosystemsWith its rich...
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Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Discover the similarities and striking beauty in the writings and sayings from science and the teachings of Buddhism.Provocative, stimulating, an...
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achieve...
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A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religio...
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La medusa inmortal: Todo lo que hay que saber para vivir m s a os
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /¿Podemos calcular nuestra esperanza de vida a partir del momento físico en el que estamos? ¿Se puede estimular el proceso de autorregeneración de...
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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears every...
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Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning...
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Evolution of Physics
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Originally published in 1938 by Cambridge University Press, The Evolution of Physics traces the development of ideas in physics, in a manner suit...
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Next Time You See a Pill Bug
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Chances are that just under a nearby rock, you’ll spot a roly-poly pill bug. Encourage a child to take a close look, and introduce a fascinating ...
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What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries - and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting–edge developments that are already changing the course of our future Every day, scientists cond...
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Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds—all from nothing! It turns out that almost nothing is ...
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Pull Don't Push: Why STEM Messaging to Girls Isn't Working and What to Do Instead
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /You need to hear the bad news first: the results of STEM outreach to girls haven't improved in twenty years. The good news? This book will tell y...
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Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to th...
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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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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof Scientific theory...
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Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laur...
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On Solid Ground: Why the Earth Isn't as Controversial as You May Think
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /On Solid Ground illustrates what geologists know about the earth by telling the stories of the people who made major geological discoveries. It a...
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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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The Surprising World of Bacteria with Max Axiom, Super Scientist
PaperbackOriginal price $8.10 - Original price $8.10Original price $8.10$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /You've never had a science teacher like this! Max Axiom is a super-cool super-scientist. Using powers he acquired in a freak accident, Max demon...
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Circadian Rhythms: 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 earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity...
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How it All Works: All scientific laws and phenomena illustrated & demonstrated
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In this beautiful and unique combination of art and science, this stunningly detailed book examines how the rules of science govern the the world...
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