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The Human Swarm
$22.50
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...
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...
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...
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
$15.00
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...
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...
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
$12.00
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...
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
$12.00
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...
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...
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of...
Beyond Infinity
$12.00
Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big...
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...
Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
$12.00
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,...
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
Author: Geoffrey West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything from cells and ecosystems...
Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable
$15.00
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...
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...
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,...
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...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
$12.00
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 Pig: A Natural History
Author: Richard Lutwyche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 At any given time there are around one billion pigs in the world; that's one for every seven of us. And...
