Science & Technology
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Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
$32.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to… [more below]
- Author: Bloch, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242769
- Language: English
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Horror on the Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Science Fiction
$24.95 Add to cartIn this fascinating exploration of fear and madness, neuroscientist Dr. Austin Lim recounts psychology’s most bizarre and haunting real-life cases alongside famous speculative fiction that stretched t
- Author: Lim, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 149308478X
- Language: English
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Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook
$55.00 Add to cartOther Networks is writer and researcher Lori Emerson’s index of telecommunications networks that existed before and outside of the internet.
The internet as we know it is not a foregone conclusion. Ind… [more below]
- Author: Emerson, Lori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1944860657
- Language: English
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Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
$28.00 Add to cart‘Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed’ – George Monbiot
‘Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call’ – David Wallace-Wells
‘Powerf- Author: Lynas, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399410512
- Language: English
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Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions
$35.00 Add to cartExperience all 135 NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts themselves in this spectacularly illustrated volume
With more than 600 photos from the NASA archives, thi- Author: Jones, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1588348032
- Language: English
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Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
$30.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world’s most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisd… [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil DeGrasse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1426221770
- Language: English
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Common Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast
$12.95 Add to cart- Handy in-the-field identification guide
- Features the “Foolproof Five”
- Includes a useful identification flowchart
The northeastern United States is home to an enormous variety of mushrooms–some delicious
- Author: Fergus, C. Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 081172641X
- Language: English
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Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
$22.50 Add to cartWith a stellar cast of scientists and science fictionists alike, a vivid exploration of realities behind imaginary planets.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a double sunset on Ta- Author: Cooper, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1789149940
- Language: English
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The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life
$27.95 Add to cartAn awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins–how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet.
Each fall, a robin begins the long trek north from Gibraltar- Author: Rizk, Shahir S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 674292588
- Language: English
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
$21.99 Add to cart*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 Book to Add to Your TBR*
*A Wired Bo… [more below]- Author: Green, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1335008004
- Language: English
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The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives
$26.95 Add to cartOne unforgettable journey through seven infrastructure systems across sixteen world cities.
- Author: Derrible, Sybil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1493086642
- Language: English
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Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change
$29.95 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on climate change comes a groundbreaking investigation into extreme weather – “I can’t recommend this book highly enough. It will change how you think … [more below]
- Author: Otto, Friederike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1778401627
- Language: English
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb
Although Henri Becquerel didn’t know it at the time, he changed history in 1895- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605896
- Language: English
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The Exhausted Brain: The Origin of Our Mental Energy and Why It Dwindles
$32.99 Add to cartRevitalize Your Brain, Reclaim Your Mental Energy
Everyone knows the feeling after a long day–it is difficult to concentrate, make good decisions, or even empathize with others. This daily but compl- Author: Nehls, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1510783024
- Language: English
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Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
$27.95 Add to cartA biologist’s firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth’s surface–and how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth
Life thrives in the d- Author: Lloyd, Karen G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 691236119
- Language: English
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Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
$32.50 Add to cartFrom “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind–and through all five senses–from tropical Polynesian islands to forbi… [more below]
- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0316496553
- Language: English
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50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know
$12.99 Add to cartA complete and accessible introduction to biology.
- Series: 50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know
- Author: Chamary, Jv
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1529438438
- Language: English
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Geology of the Lake Tahoe Basin: History and Features
$24.99 Read more“Readers will learn about the many prominent points of geologic interest and discover their location and creation processes. …a must-read for scientists, nature enthusiasts, visitors and curious min… [more below]
- Author: Antonucci, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1625451202
- Language: English
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We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system.
Humanity has cleared a l- Author: Grunwald, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1982160071
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Birds of North America
$42.48 Add to cartField Guide to the Birds of North America is a complete, compact and user-friendly guide to all the birds of the USA and Canada (excluding Hawaii). Drawing on years of guiding experience, the book is
- Author: McMullen, Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1784275425
- Language: English
