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50 Things to Do by the Sea
Author: Easkey Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton,...
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
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Author: Robert Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 235 Does science have all the answers? The view that it does is known as scientific naturalism or scientism, and is now...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps
Author: Peter L. Falkingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 428 The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...
Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
Author: Mi Gyung Kim (Associate Professor, North Carolina State University ) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 613 In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public...
The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation
Author: Ben A. Minteer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger-the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking...
The Science of the Oven
Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Author: Benjamin von Brackel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 As humans accelerate global warming - while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness...
Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
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Author: William T. Vollmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, reportedly holding his just-published masterpiece, The Revolutions...
Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
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Author: Beau Lotto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world,...
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
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Author: Laurence C Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization...
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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Author: Martin J Blaser, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
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Author: Charles Seife Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Almost Chimpanzee: Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them
Author: Jon Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the autumn of 2005, researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window...
From Alchemy To Ipo: The Business Of Biotechnology
Author: Cynthia Robbins-roth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "A tour-de-force for anyone who is interested in the biotech industry. I applaud the enormous achievement of Cynthia Robbins-Roth."-Frederick...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 0 Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities....
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
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Author: Graham Farmelo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteriesOne of the great insights of science is that the universe has an...
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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Author: Jonathan Eig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four...
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet
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Author: John Naughton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
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Author: Heino Falcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The International Bestseller On April 10, 2019, award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke presented the first image ever captured of a black hole...
Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know
Author: Richard A. Muller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 536 Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science...
The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?
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Author: Lawrence M. Krauss (Arizona State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate...
Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...
Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World
Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial...
The Science of Hope: Eye to Eye with our World's Wildlife
Author: Dr. Wiebke Finkler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 A breathtaking visual journey exploring why certain animal species capture our attention, and showcasing hopeful conservation efforts around the world....
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Author: Tom Vanderbilt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an...
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
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Author: Arthur Holland Michel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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Author: Joshua D Mezrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of...
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
Author: Richard C. Francis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 The wolf evolved into the Pekingese, the wildcat into the tabby cat and the auroch into the milk-producing cow. This...
The General Rule: A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures
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Author: Vivian T. Linacre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 An essential collection of articles, tables and notes, to define and explain the modern uses and relationships -...
Figaro's Fleet
Author: Raymond Reagan Butler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 In 1776 the American rebel colonists were desperately in need of arms and financial backing, and the Frenchman Pierre Augustin...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
Author: Ziya Tong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that...
Einstein And Culture
Author: Gerhard Sonnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 427 Popular images of Albert Einstein often depict him as either an almost superhuman solitary genius or as a counter-cultural rebel. In...
Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
Author: George Michelsen Foy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, "an exquisitely written and dramatic book...a literary page-turner"...
Lost Science: Astonishing Tales of Forgotten Genius
Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Acclaimed popular science writer Kitty Ferguson investigates little-explored byroads in the history of science, from Johannes Kepler's nearly disastrous venture into...
Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Author: Neil Gershenfeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The 20th century witnessed two digital revolutions. Computing power has revolutionized every industry, from finance to agriculture to pharmaceuticals. We've got...
Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
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Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the...