History
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
$18.99 Add to cartA national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.When we think o… [more below]
- Author: Kolata, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0743203984
- Language: English
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
$20.00 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the “inspiring” (People), little-known true story of women’s landmark contributions to astronomy
Named on
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book- Author: Sobel, Dava
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0143111345
- Language: English
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The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
$19.95 Add to cartA surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about it
Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moo- Author: Mattern, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 069121672X
- Language: English
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The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
$16.00 Read moreA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.
Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and t- Author: Richard, Alison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829499
- Language: English
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
$22.99 Add to cartWhat happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know ab… [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316016411
- Language: English
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Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition–From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson
$32.50 Read moreScientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world–and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them
Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don’t receive wi- Author: Kirsch, Donald R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1956763392
- Language: English
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
$19.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocitie- Author: Holt, Nathalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0316338907
- Language: English
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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
$18.95 Read moreFrom the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882403
- Language: English
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
$29.00 Read moreFrom a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science’s darkest secrets, “a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Scie- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0316496502
- Language: English
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
$19.95 Add to cartThe incredible “”glowing”” history of the “”Devil’s element “”phosphorus
Discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by ninth-century industrialists, and abused by twentieth-centur- Author: Emsley, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 047144149X
- Language: English
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Greek Science After Aristotle
$20.99 Add to cartIn this volume, the author discusses the fundamental Greek contributions to science, drawing on the rich literary and archaeological sources for the period after Aristotle. Particular attention is pai… [more below]
- Author: Lloyd, G. E. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0393007804
- Language: English
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Math 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Add to cartGet to grips with the essential topics in maths today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words.
Math: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisf- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081610
- Language: English
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Physics 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Read moreGet to grips with the essential topics in physics today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words.
Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, s- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081629
- Language: English
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
$17.00 Add to cartWhat science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew
For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0807010030
- Language: English
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
$26.95 Add to cartLeviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise L
- Series: Princeton Classics #32
- Author: Shapin, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 069117816X
- Language: English
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The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
$26.00 Add to cartPopular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?
Sciences fro- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 022679587X
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us
$19.99 Add to cartThe Guardian‘s Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe.
It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0316381659
- Language: English
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On Growth and Form
$24.99 Add to cartWhy do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D’Arcy Thompson’s classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1107672562
- Language: English
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
$18.00 Add to cart“Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” –President Barack Obama (on Twitter)
“An important book.” –Steven Pinker, The New York Times- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0525538860
- Language: English
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
$38.00 Read moreThe first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present.
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived- Author: Wellerstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022602038X
- Language: English
