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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020
$21.99 Add to cartA collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edited by New York Times best-selling author and ground-breaking physicist Dr. Michio Kaku.
“Scientists and
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Kaku, Michio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0358074290
- Language: English
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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
$19.99 Add to cartDrawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062230174
- Language: English
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
$16.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles “big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness … in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593081323
- Language: English
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant–but accessible–ideas to expand every mind.
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? Th
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0062109391
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best science and nature writing published in 2020.
“The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Yong, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358400066
- Language: English
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There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science
$24.99 Add to cartLeah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, for an irreverent debut that answers all sorts of scientific questions–from the age-old to the ridiculous to the sublime–p
- Author: Elson, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798200864935
- Language: English
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The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
$21.99 Add to cartAn all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls “the p… [more below]
- Author: Novella, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1538760525
- Language: English
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An Outsider’s Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are
$17.00 Add to cartAn instruction manual for life, love, and relationships by a brilliant young scientist whose Asperger’s syndrome allows her–and us–to see ourselves in a different way…and to be better at being hum… [more below]
- Author: Pang, Camilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984881655
- Language: English
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
$16.95 Add to cartInvisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish–with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on
- Author: Osmundson, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0393881369
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Scientist
$14.95 Add to cartEdward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson … [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0871403854
- Language: English
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Gaia and Philosophy
$9.99 Read moreIn the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that E
- Series: Terra Ignota #3
- Author: Margulis, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 30, 2023
- ISBN10: 1838003967
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
$35.00 Add to cartThis new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science.
In A Short History of Nea… [more below]- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0307885151
- Language: English
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos–and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.
Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize i- Author: Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541724682
- Language: English
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
$32.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Best Book of the Year
An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick
A “Next Big Idea Book Club” Must Read?
*An Esquire Best Book of 2023*
A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April
A BookRiot Science Bo… [more below]- Author: Green, Jaime
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1335463542
- Language: English
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
$21.99 Add to cartA fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this “miraculous, transcendental book” invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way
- Author: Imbler, Sabrina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0316540501
- Language: English
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
$30.00 Add to cartA fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this “miraculous, transcendental book” invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way
- Author: Imbler, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0316540536
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
$37.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and intractable questions that sc… [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0767908171
- Language: English
