History
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A Brief History of Stuff: The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Objects
$25.00 Add to cartExplore the past, present, and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons.
Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of amateur beachcombers have helped scientists study ocea- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081602
- Language: English
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Understanding Charles Darwin
$19.99 Add to cartThe legend of Charles Darwin has never been more alive or more potent, but by virtue of this, his legacy has become susceptible to myths and misunderstandings. Understanding Charles Darwin examines ke… [more below]
- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Peterson, Erik L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1009338595
- Language: English
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
$29.95 Read moreThe rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Victorians invented the idea of- Author: Morus, Iwan Rhys
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362606
- Language: English
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The Tesla Papers
$26.99 Add to cartScientific papers and articles by Nicola Tesla and others about Tesla’s work primarily in the field of electrical engineering including; Famous Scientific Illusions, My Inventions, The Tesla Effects W… [more below]
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1034786741
- Language: English
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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
$25.99 Add to cart“What Stephen Hawking did for cosmology, Leon Lederman does for particle physics” (Dallas Morning News) in The God Particle, a funny and fascinating look at the universe from the Nobel Prize-winning p… [more below]
- Author: Lederman, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618711686
- Language: English
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The Measure of All Things
$26.99 Add to cartIn June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would mak… [more below]
- Author: Alder, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0743216768
- Language: English
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Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cartWith a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea
Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii–named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie–was the most
- Author: Rea, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966700
- Language: English
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The Story of the Plate Tectonics Revolution: A Geology Coloring Book
$11.99 Add to cartIn 1915, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener came up with an idea. What if, he proposed, the continents moved around over the face of Earth? When Wegener published his thoughts, he was subject
- Author: Terry, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: August 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0578946882
- Language: English
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Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word “eugenics” to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin’s theory of … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Levine, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0199385904
- Language: English
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
$27.99 Add to cartIn December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf’s blood into one of Paris’s most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis was framed for murder. A riveting expos? of
- Author: Tucker, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342239
- Language: English
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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
$27.99 Add to cartHe studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler’s fascinating life brings us face to face with the
- Author: Wheeler, John Archibald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319911
- Language: English
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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised)
$26.99 Add to cartOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power flowing from the germanium far exceeded what went i… [more below]
- Series: Sloan Technology Series
- Author: Riordan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: December 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318516
- Language: English
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Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
$20.00 Add to cartAladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the … [more below]
- Author: Freely, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0307277836
- Language: English
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100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World
$29.95 Read moreArranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great b
- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 1911663542
- Language: English
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartDrawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.
C- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1439192375
- Language: English
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The- Author: Hamblyn, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420013
- Language: English
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The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: South America, 1925
$58.33 Add to cartA marvelously annotated and illustrated edition of Einstein’s South America travel diary
In the spring of 1925, Albert Einstein embarked on an extensive lecture tour of Argentina before continuing on- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0691201021
- Language: English
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Lady Tasting Tea
$22.99 Add to cartAn insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to l
- Author: Salsburg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0805071342
- Language: English
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
$14.00 Add to cartThe Best Tool of the Millennium
The seeds of Rybczynski’s elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying “the best tool of th… [more below]- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0684867303
- Language: English
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna’s Double Helix
$30.00 Add to cartJames Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1324002239
- Language: English
