Science & Technology
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The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence
$21.99 Add to cart**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral ‘Ros Atkins on…’ explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast ‘Communicating with Ros Atkins’**
‘A great read- Author: Atkins, Ros
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1472298411
- Language: English
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Carbon: The Book of Life
$28.00 Add to cartA journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living w- Author: Hawken, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0525427449
- Language: English
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Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
$24.00 Add to cart“A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone.” —Wall Street Journal
Bone is a marvel, an
Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen.- Author: Black (Brian Switek), Riley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525539123
- Language: English
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The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
$19.99 Read moreAt every moment, within our bodies and all around us, trillions of microscopic combatants are waging a war that shapes our health and life on Earth. Countless times per second, viruses known as phages
- Author: Ireland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086432
- Language: English
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Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – 70th Anniversary Edition
$21.95 Add to cartWinner–Best Biography/Memoir of 2002, Midwest Book Awards (St. Paul, MN)
A firsthand account of the lumbering era during the white pine boom years of the late 1800s – early 1900s in the northern U.S.
- Author: Crowe, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0965057739
- Language: English
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The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
$32.50 Add to cartNew York Times-bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behavior and help us find meaning.
Off
- Author: Hutchinson, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0063269767
- Language: English
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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
$19.95 Read more“Smil presents the long history and modern infatuation with invention and innovation. Meticulous as always, these vast realms of human ingenuity are organized into sensible categories: inventions that… [more below]
- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551012
- Language: English
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER – Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers re… [more below]
- Author: Ranganath, Charan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467833
- Language: English
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The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
$29.00 Add to cartA riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023’s record heat
- Author: Tidwell, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362261
- Language: English
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
$26.00 Read moreThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1400031877
- Language: English
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The Handy Quantum Physics Answer Book
$79.95 Add to cartQuantum physics helps explain many mysteries of the universe. It underpins everything, but it need not be quantum difficult with this informative, accessible, easy-to-follow guide to the fundamentals
- Series: Handy Answer Books
- Author: Liu, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1578598370
- Language: English
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Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
$20.00 Read more“This is a delightful account of one of the deepest and most fascinating explorations going on today at the frontier of our knowledge.” –Carlo Rovelli, bestselling author of The Order of Time and Sev
- Author: Musser, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338220
- Language: English
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The Power of Nuclear
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the pilot’s seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl’s exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredi
- Author: Visscher, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1399419072
- Language: English
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The Privileged Planet (20th Anniversary Edition): How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery
$35.00 Add to cartThe Provocative Classic The Privileged Planet in a Fully Revised, 20th Anniversary Edition!
Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a “lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark”- Author: Gonzalez, Guillermo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1684517028
- Language: English
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The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships
$32.00 Add to cartAn Immense World meets Sex at Dawn in this fascinating exploration of sexual behavior throughout the animal kingdom, as evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents argues persuasively that many of our supp
- Author: Lents, Nathan H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375443
- Language: English
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Beekeeping for Gardeners: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Garden – Finalist in the Garden Media Guild Award 2024
$26.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2024 LIVING NOW AWARD IN GREEN LIVING AND FINALIST IN THE GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARD FOR THE PETER SEABROOK PRACTICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR.
A comprehensive gardener’s guide to sustainable beek- Author: Rickitt, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1399404849
- Language: English
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The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a Forbes 30 Under 30 scientist comes a fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences–potentially revolutionizing neuroscience and the future of technology–transfo… [more below]
- Author: Hoel, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1982159391
- Language: English
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Microfarms: Organic Market Gardening on a Human Scale
$34.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Market Gardener – key principles for biointensive market gardening and powerful stories of successful growers who are farming profitably on a human-scale
Microfarms
- Author: Fortier, Jean-Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1774060043
- Language: English
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How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
$30.00 Add to cart“Vaclav Smil is my favorite author.”—Bill Gates
An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist’s exploration of how we can successfully feed a growi- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593834518
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
$29.00 Add to cartBy the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history of humanity on the brink of decline.
We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first ti- Author: Gee, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250325587
- Language: English
