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The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
$32.50 Read moreFor the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it ha- Author: Johns, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022682148X
- Language: English
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Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements
$27.95 Add to cartThe wondrous and illuminating story of humankind’s quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev’s dream of the Periodic Table.
**One of Bill Gates’ Top Five Book Recommen- Author: Strathern, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04, 2019
- ISBN10: 1643130692
- Language: English
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The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity’s Deadliest Diseases
$31.95 Add to cartAn in-depth look at the mavericks, moments, and mistakes that sparked the greatest medical discoveries in modern times–plus the cures that will help us live longer and healthier lives in this century… [more below]
- Author: Lam, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637742630
- Language: English
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Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno Logy
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit–some of the displays in
Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction- Author: Weschler, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 26, 1996
- ISBN10: 0679764895
- Language: English
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Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl
$0.00 Read moreThe story of recorded sound – the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl.
In Into- Author: Scott, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 1472979826
- Language: English
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The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
$17.95 Add to cartIn the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a p
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064536
- Language: English
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
$18.00 Add to cartTwo of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these men, separated in age by forty years, d… [more below]
- Author: Forbes, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1633886077
- Language: English
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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
$29.00 Add to cart“Bold and intriguing.”–Wall Street Journal – “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review) – “Offers plenty of food for thought.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826686
- Language: English
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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
$29.99 Add to cartSome of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale–and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural enginee
- Author: Agrawal, Roma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324021527
- Language: English
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social his
- Author: Vincent, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066148
- Language: English
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The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the “Scientific Revolution.” New ideas and discoveries not only redef… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Principe, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0199567417
- Language: English
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Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds
$35.00 Add to cartAn in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newto… [more below]
- Author: Atalay, Bulent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364897
- Language: English
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Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
$18.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander
Over two millennia ago, the prescient i- Author: Rovelli, Carlo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593542363
- Language: English
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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
$35.00 Add to cartA New Scientist Best Book of 2023
Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares. This illustrated his- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0226825825
- Language: English
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A Little History of Science
$15.00 Read moreA spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living orga- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0300197136
- Language: English
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For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet
$27.50 Read moreA tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers.
Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans since ancient times. Due to its vivid color and visibi- Author: Shindell, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0226821897
- Language: English
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Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
$32.95 Read moreA Financial Times and Scientific American Best Book of the Year.
A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fundamental distinction between natural and synthetic- Author: Levitt, Theresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0674250893
- Language: English
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
$19.99 Add to cartFrom 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316496510
- Language: English
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
$17.99 Add to cartFor two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the N
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881725
- Language: English
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The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
$16.95 Read moreWhile we may be familiar with some of science’s greatest equations, we may not know that each and every equation emerged not in “Eureka!” moments but in years of cultural developments and scientific k
- Author: Crease, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0393337936
- Language: English
