Science & Technology
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Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales
$16.95 Read moreJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the unive
- Series: Princeton Science Library #142
- Author: Bonner, John Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254400
- Language: English
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring Live, one of America’s great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathers
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They d- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028780
- Language: English
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The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
$14.00 Add to cartCommunicating his ideas in the form of a classical dialogue between a youth and a wise elder, cosmologist Brian Swimme crafts a fascinating exploration into the creativity suffusing the universe. His … [more below]
- Author: Swimme, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0939680149
- Language: English
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Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World
$24.95 Add to cart“Farmers like Charles and Perrine Herv?-Gruyer [are] beacons of light. Their work allows the rest of the world to see that there is another life, there is another way.”–Eliot Coleman
What began as a
- Author: Herv?-Gruyer, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1603586423
- Language: English
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Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
$50.00 Read moreDelve into the story of science – from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics – with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, discoveries, and inventions that shaped our world.
Going- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0744045614
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of the Elements
$24.99 Read more‘The perfect book to escape our human-sized existence and take a tour of the atomic world instead.’ Helen Arney, science comedian and broadcaster
When we think of the periodic table we picture orderly
- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1529412749
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Mississippi
$24.00 Add to cartIt�s a little-known fact, but Mississippi has a volcano. True, it�s buried under 2,600 feet of sediment, but it was red hot and active roughly 79 to 69 million years ago, and evidence of… [more below]
- Author: Galicki, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 087842671X
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of West Virginia
$26.00 Read moreWithin West Virginia’s irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sedimentary record of the entire Paleozoic Era. Continents collidin… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Lebold, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0878426833
- Language: English
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Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly Without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
$25.00 Add to cartFor more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Log
- Author: Logsdon, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 05 2018
- ISBN10: 160358806X
- Language: English
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
$19.00 Add to cartThe bold futurist and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today’s most influential–and oft- Author: Kurzweil, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124048
- Language: English
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Profit: An Environmental History
$99.93 Add to cartProfit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems
- Series: Environmental History
- Author: Stoll, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1509533230
- Language: English
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Colorado Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Centennial State
$22.00 Add to cartThese 50 well-chosen sites–many on every geologist’s bucket list–span Colorado’s geologic history from 1.7-billion-year-old rocks of the Black Canyon to the constantly shifting landscape of the Grea… [more below]
- Author: Donahue, Magdalena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0878427058
- Language: English
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Queenspotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive; Includes 48 Queenspotting Challenges
$19.99 Add to cartAt the heart of every bee hive is a queen bee. Since her well-being is linked to the well-being of the entire colony, the ability to find her among the residents of the hive is an essential beekeeping… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1635860377
- Language: English
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Geology Underfoot in Southern Idaho
$26.00 Add to cartSouthern Idaho is a geologic jackpot. Etched in its rugged mountains, incredibly young lava fields, and steep-walled canyons lie compelling evidence of amazing geologic events, including breccia from … [more below]
- Series: Geology Underfoot
- Author: Willsey, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0878426787
- Language: English
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build a Secret Agent Arsenal: Volume 2
$17.99 Add to cartIf you’re a budding spy, what better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 2 provides fully illustrated step-by-step… [more below]
- Series: Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Author: Austin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1569767165
- Language: English
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First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
$18.00 Read moreFirst Light opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our Universe’s history – the time when the first starts were born.
Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Unive- Author: Chapman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 147296294X
- Language: English
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Carbon Chemistry student text
$13.95 Add to cartThis is the student text section of the curriculum book Carbon Chemistry by the same author. The text has nine chapters covering these topics: structure of carbon atoms, hydrocarbons, alkanes, alkenes
- Author: McHenry, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: August 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1737476320
- Language: English
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The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth
$24.95 Add to cartThis could be the most important book you will read this year. Around the office at Chelsea Green it is referred to as the “pharmaceutical Silent Spring.” Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and her
- Author: Buhner, Stephen Harrod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1890132888
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Read moreRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Published more than two decades ago to great critical acclaim and commercial success, A Brief History of Time has become a landmark volume in science writing. Stephen Haw- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0553109537
- Language: English
