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The Higgs Fake: How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Did the Nobel Prize In Physics in 2013 Make Einstein Turn In His Grave?The Higgs Fake - How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee is a m...
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Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /With the world desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gases—a desire compounded by the sky-rocketing cost of fossil fuels—nucle...
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Darwin on Trial
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courag...
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The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone." —Peter Galison, Harvard Un...
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The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
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 renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo research Scientists have long struggled to ma...
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mot...
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Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in natureWhile we joke that men are from Mars and women are fro...
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National Geographic Readers: Amazon Animals (L3): 100 Fun Facts About Snakes, Sloths, Spiders, and More
HardcoverOriginal price $15.90 - Original price $15.90Original price $15.90$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Journey to the Amazon—the world’s largest rainforest and home to more animal species than any place on Earth—and discover the creatures that live...
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Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light ...
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Physics: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Physics, the fundamental science of matter and energy, encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of t...
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Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /FINALIST for the 2021 Oregon Book Award. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in Ruby McConnell’s Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a L...
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Kingdom of Frost: How the Cryosphere Shapes Life on Earth
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An award-winning science journalist explains what Earth’s frozen waters tell us about the past, present, and future of humanity. “The Kingdom of ...
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and de...
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Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Winner of the Silver Medal for Environment/Ecology in the 2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsFritjof Capra, scientist, educator, activi...
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Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /“Superb. . . . A gently studious Bill Bryson crossed with an upbeat and relaxed WG Sebald.”—James McConnachie, Sunday Times (UK) Half of the worl...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Global warming":the Left's last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy For decades, environmentalism has been the...
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The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A noted space expert explains the current revolution in spaceflight, where it leads, and why we need it. A new space race has begun. But the riva...
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The Edge Of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the bigg...
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Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021 One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Scien...
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Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race...
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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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The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Wherever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens when they are ...
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