Discoveries in science
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Erosion: How Hugh Bennett Saved America’s Soil and Ended the Dust Bowl
$25.99 Add to cartWhen the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the soils in every state, creating maps showing soil co
- Series: Moments in Science #5
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 162944149X
- Language: English
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Erosion: How Hugh Bennett Saved America’s Soil and Ended the Dust Bowl
$11.99 Add to cartWhen the dust storms of the 1930s threatened to destroy U.S. farming and agriculture, Hugh Bennett knew what to do. For decades, he had studied the soils in every state, creating maps showing soil co
- Series: Moments in Science #5
- Author: Pattison, Darcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1629441503
- Language: English
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Inventions: A Visual Encyclopedia
$29.99 Read moreDiscover the amazing inventions throughout history that have shaped the world as we know it.
This stunning visual guide explores and explains the greatest inventions, ideas, and discoveries throughout- Series: Visual Encyclopedia
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1465458387
- Language: English
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Visual Timelines: Science: Inventions and Discoveries Year by Year
$16.99 Read moreThis book is a time machine!
Young readers can take a thrilling ride through the history of science – a true-life tale full of twists and turns, unforgettable people and unexpected revelations. Writte- Series: Visual Timelines
- Author: Rooney, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1398820229
- Language: English
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Janice Van Cleave’s Scientists Through the Ages
$16.00 Add to cartProfiles of some of history’s greatest scientists– and fun experiments that demonstrate their theories
Janice VanCleave’s Scientists Through the Ages profiles the lives and work of more than twenty… [more below]
- Author: VanCleave, Janice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: December 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0471252220
- Language: English
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartDrawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.
C- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1439192375
- Language: English
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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
$29.99 Add to cartThe general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be furth… [more below]
- Author: Firestein, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019939010X
- Language: English
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The Future of Exploration: Discovering the Uncharted Frontiers of Science, Technology, and Human Potential
$45.00 Read moreAt this very moment, explorers in some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth, from the deepest parts of the ocean, to the highest mountains, and to outer space are enduring unimaginable har… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1647229170
- 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
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
$12.95 Read moreA short, provocative book about why “useless” science often leads to humanity’s greatest technological breakthroughs
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources- Author: Flexner, Abraham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691174768
- Language: English
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
$18.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller about humanity’s place in the universe–and how we understand it.
“Vivid…impressive….Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times
“Succeeds spectacularly.“–Sci… [more below]- Author: Carroll, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 1101984252
- Language: English
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Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be
$12.99 Add to cartThe greatest discoveries are made outside the classroom Learn all about mistakes that changed the world with this collection of the strange stories behind everyday inventions It’s no accident that y
- Author: Jones, Charlotte Foltz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0385320434
- Language: English
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In Ascension
$18.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist
investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a
journ- Author: MacInnes, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163467
- Language: English
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2312
$19.99 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system … [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Kim Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0316526983
- Language: English
