Applied Sciences
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Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy
$35.00 Add to cartWill you please just listen to me? If you are a scientist, or a fan of science, have you ever wondered why your fact-based explanation of ground-breaking scientific research falls flat with family, fr… [more below]
- Author: Toomey, Anne Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833282
- Language: English
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War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
$23.00 Add to cartIn this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.
At the t- Author: Tucker, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400032334
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell–And the Extraordinary Power of the Nose
$28.00 Add to cartFor readers of James Nestor and Mary Roach, a fascinating tour of the science behind our most essential sense–and all we unleash when we stop and literally smell the roses
Our sense of smell guides ou
- Author: Olofsson, Jonas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063394677
- Language: English
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It’s a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
$28.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.
Gases a
- Author: Miodownik, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0358157153
- Language: English
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The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: A Deep History of an Idea 400 Years in the Making
$45.00 Add to cartThe idea that a new technology could challenge human intelligence is as old as the warning from Socrates and Plato that written language eroded memory. With the emergence of generative artificial inte… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Kevin Padraic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 082294796X
- Language: English
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Fire Dynamics for Firefighters
$39.99 Add to cartThis book was initially written with the express purpose of making fire dynamics science accessible to Firefighters and practitioners at all levels. Although fire dynamics is a scientific discipline,
- Series: Compartment Firefighting #1
- Author: Walker, Benjamin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 10 2021
- ISBN10: 064514200X
- Language: English
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Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
$18.99 Read more“Informative and entertaining…Rogers is a seasoned raconteur, unreeling an eons-spanning tale with skill.” —Wall Street Journal
A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which chang
- Author: Rogers, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0358695244
- Language: English
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
$20.00 Add to cartThis brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter.Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developmen… [more below]
- Series: Anchor Library of Science
- Author: Drexler, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 16 1987
- ISBN10: 0385199732
- Language: English
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Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, from Homemade to Haute Cuisine
$35.00 Add to cartThe spectacular culinary creations of modern cuisine are the stuff of countless articles and social media feeds. But to a scientist they are also perfect pedagogical explorations into the basic scient
- Author: Brenner, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0393634922
- Language: English
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
$15.99 Add to cartSometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, and always fascinating: the New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters offers an “entertaining discussion of the various ways our … [more below]
- Author: Miodownik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0358108454
- Language: English
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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place
$19.99 Add to cart“A deft, informative, and often screamingly funny primer on the ways that machine learning can (and often does) go wrong.” –Margaret Harris, Physics World
“You look like a thing and I love you” is on… [more below]- Author: Shane, Janelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 316525227
- Language: English
