Aspects (Academic)/Science/Technology Aspects
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Primates of the World: An Illustrated Guide
$32.00 Add to cartThe essential illustrated guide to the world’s primates
This stunningly illustrated guide to the world’s primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of M- Author: Petter, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156956
- Language: English
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On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
$65.00 Read moreIn this classic of biology and modern science, Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948), one of the most distinguished scientists of the modern era, sets forth his seminal “theory of transformation”
- Series: Dover Books on Biology
- Author: Thompson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: June 23 1992
- ISBN10: 0486671356
- Language: English
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The Planets: The Definitive Visual Guide to Our Solar System
$30.00 Add to cartDiscover places where a day is longer than a year, where hailstones are made of diamonds, and where a mountain looms twice the size of Everest.
The S
These and more are all to be found in The Planets.- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1465424644
- Language: English
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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with Over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes [A
$40.00 Add to cartIn her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America’s leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edibl… [more below]
- Author: Madison, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1607741911
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, Seaworld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
$21.00 Add to cart*Now a New York Times Best Seller*
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld’s U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an o- Author: Hargrove, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081408
- Language: English
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Mushrooms of the Midwest
$39.95 Add to cartFusing general interest in mushrooming with serious scholarship, Mushrooms of the Midwest describes and illustrates over five hundred of the region’s mushroom species. From the cold conifer bogs of n
- Author: Kuo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0252079760
- Language: English
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Schaum’s Outline of College Chemistry: 1,340 Solved Problems + 23 Videos
$25.00 Add to cartTough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?
Fortunately, there’s Schaum’s.
More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum’s to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum’s
- Series: Schaum’s Outlines
- Author: Rosenberg, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 31 2013
- ISBN10: 007181082X
- Language: English
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Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEngineering is part of almost everything we do–from the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on, to the telephones and computers we use to communicate and the X-ray machines that… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Blockley, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0199578699
- Language: English
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Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image: The Photography Workshop Series
$29.95 Read moreIn this installment of The Photography Workshop Series, internationally acclaimed color photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, offer their expert insight into street photography and the poet… [more below]
- Series: Photography Workshop
- Author: Webb, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1597112577
- Language: English
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Proof: The Science of Booze
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, science journalist Adam Rogers’s Proof is a spirited narrative on the fascinating art and science of alcohol, sure to inspire cocktail party chats on making booze, tasting… [more below]
- Author: Rogers, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0544538544
- Language: English
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Feynman’s Tips on Physics: Reflections, Advice, Insights, Practice
$18.99 Add to cartFeynman’s Tips on Physics is a delightful collection of Richard P. Feynman’s insights and an essential companion to his legendary Feynman Lectures on Physics
With characteristic flair, insight, and h- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0465027970
- Language: English
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Nan Goldin: The Other Side
$60.00 Read more“This is a book about beauty. And about love for my friends.” -Nan Goldin
One of Time Magazine‘s best photo book of 2019
This is an expanded and updated version of Nan Goldin’s seminal book The Other S- Author: Goldin, Nan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 3958296130
- Language: English
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On Growth and Form
$24.99 Add to cartWhy do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D’Arcy Thompson’s classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1107672562
- Language: English
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tragedies to befall humanity: the black plague. Though … [more below]
- Author: Cantor, Norman F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1476797749
- Language: English
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Animal Madness: Inside Their Minds
$18.00 Add to cart**”Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick** **Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads** **People magazine Best Summer Reads** “A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many… [more below]
- Author: Braitman, Laurel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1451627017
- Language: English
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The Bee: A Natural History
$17.95 Add to cartAn incomparable illustrated look at the critical role bees play in the life of our planet
Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that we rely on to survive. Bees are also crucia- Author: Wilson-Rich, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0691182477
- Language: English
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all to
- Series: Princeton Science Library #36
- Author: Abbott, Edwin Abbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165556
- Language: English
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The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature
$24.95 Add to cartExplains how self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, share collective memories that influence their form and behavior
– Includes new evidence and research in support of the theory o- Author: Sheldrake, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1594774617
- Language: English
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The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can’t Count on
$19.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that irra- Series: Princeton Science Library #135
- Author: Havil, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247668
- Language: English
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
$19.00 Add to cartHow would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?
If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postap- Author: Dartnell, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127047
- Language: English
