Life Sciences
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Skincare Decoded: Revised and Expanded: The Practical Guide to Beautiful Skin
$30.00 Add to cartThis revised and expanded edition has been updated with the latest information, and has all-new sections on suncreen, eye treatments, and more. Do you really need a ten-step skincare regimen? Is that … [more below]
- Author: Fu, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886742411
- 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 Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind
$19.00 Add to cart“Brilliant.” —David Brooks, The New York Times
“A profoundly unconventional book . . . So absorbing that I wound up reading it twice.” —Bloomberg Finalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs B- Author: Coates, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123408
- 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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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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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
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Pure Human: The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny
$25.99 Add to cartIn an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we’re truly capable of.
Th- Author: Braden, Gregg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1401949363
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell–And the Extraordinary Power of the Nose
$28.00 Add to cartFor readers of James Nestor and Mary Roach, a fascinating tour of the science behind our most essential sense–and all we unleash when we stop and literally smell the roses
Our sense of smell guides ou
- Author: Olofsson, Jonas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063394677
- Language: English
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Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the creator of WE HAVE NO IDEA, an introductory journey into your own mind–if your inner voice had a Ph.D. in brain science, cracked jokes, and drew cartoons.
Why do you love? Why do you lie? Wh- Author: Cham, Jorge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593317351
- Language: English
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What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird
$22.99 Add to cartA charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, “one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world” (The New York Times).
For more- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1668047365
- Language: English
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Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians
$22.95 Add to cartMyrtlewood is most often thought of as beautiful wood for woodworking, but to Native people on the southern Oregon coast it was an important source of food. The roasted nuts taste like bitter chocolat… [more below]
- Author: Whereat-Phillips, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 04 2016
- ISBN10: 870718525
- Language: English
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The Social Conquest of Earth
$18.99 Add to cartSparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story o… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403633
- Language: English
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Saanich Ethnobotany: Culturally Important Plants of the Ws?nec People
$24.95 Read moreNancy Turner and Richard Hebda present the results of many years of working with botanical experts from the Saanich Nation on southern Vancouver Island. Elders Violet Williams, Elsie Claxton, Christop… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Nancy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2002
- ISBN10: 077266577X
- Language: English
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Little Kids First Nature Guide Bugs
$9.99 Read moreThis delightful little nature guide for young children is all about discovering the many insects, spiders, and other creatures–aka BUGS!–that creep, crawl, and fly around your neighborhood and beyon… [more below]
- Series: Little Kids First Nature Guide
- Author: Brydon, Alli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1426371497
- Language: English
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History
$20.00 Read moreThe Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s stra
- Author: Bloom, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: March 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0871136643
- Language: English
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The Trees in My Forest
$16.99 Read moreWinner of the
New England Book Award Best
Nonfiction Award
and the Franklin Fairbanks
Award of the Fairbanks MuseumIn a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929421
- Language: English
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El Gran Libro del Cuerpo Humano (the Complete Human Body)
$50.00 Read moreLa gu?a definitiva del cuerpo humano: su desarrollo, forma, funciones y trastornos.
Esta impresionante exploraci?n del cuerpo humano, ya en su tercera edici?n y revisada con los avances m?dicos m?s re- Author: Roberts, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0744088968
- Language: Spanish
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Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World (Environmental Sustainability, Doing Good Things, Book for Activists)
$22.99 Add to cartZahra Biabani, a climate activist with a creative twist, created this guide to help readers learn how to stay optimistic in the face of the climate crisis. Doing good things can make a change to devel… [more below]
- Author: Biabani, Zahra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1684811589
- Language: English
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Por Qu? Recordamos: La Nueva Ciencia de la Memoria / Why We Remember
$19.95 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
El destacado neurocient?fico y miembro de la Fundaci?n Guggenheim, Charan Ranganath, nos lleva a un fascinante viaje a trav?s de la ciencia de n
- Author: Ranganath, Charan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 6075698078
- Language: Spanish
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Practical Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers
$28.99 Add to cartAn exhaustive exposition of propagating methods, from growing from seed to cuttings, grafting, layering, and tissue culture. It is based on the actual working methods of successful propagators worldwi… [more below]
- Author: MacDonald, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 660
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0881928402
- Language: English
