Prometheus Books
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Jane Goodall: A Biography
$17.99 Add to cartRecent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania has been renowned as one of the … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026113
- Language: English
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Everyone’s Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11
$36.33 Add to cartEveryone’s Gone to the Moon is a week-by-week journey through July 1969, one of the most pivotal months in human history – in space and here on Earth. This unique book follows the crew of Apollo 11 an
- Author: Cuhaj, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888819
- Language: English
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Flight Failure: Investigating the Nuts and Bolts of Air Disasters and Aviation Safety
$18.00 Read moreThis book chronicles maintenance-related accidents -including the recent Boeing 737 MAX accidents -caused by individual, corporate, or governmental negligence and brings the industry’s current state o
- Author: Porter, Donald J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1633886220
- Language: English
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Machines That Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
$16.00 Add to cartHow will Artificial Intelligence (AI) impact our lives? Toby Walsh, one of the leading AI researchers in the world, takes a critical look at the many ways in which “thinking machines” will change our … [more below]
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1633883752
- Language: English
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The Essence of Religion
$21.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1845, this concise critique formed the basis of thirty later lectures delivered in 1848 by Ludwig Feuerbach, one of Germany’s most influential humanist philosophers. In The Ess… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591022134
- Language: English
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
$13.99 Add to cartThroughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is “knowledge.” Many philosophers believed that absolute, cert… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Empiricus, Sextus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0879755970
- Language: English
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Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits: The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary Science
$39.50 Add to cartLooking back to Alan Turing’s work on the Enigma machine and the first electronic computer, and featuring a new introduction on the recent evolution of quantum computing, author John Gribbin explains
- Author: Gribbin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888703
- Language: English
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The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change
$18.00 Add to cartThis book, written by a geologist, describes the important contributions that geology has made to our understanding of climate change since the 1830s. What emerges is a much more complex and nuanced p… [more below]
- Author: Peters, E. Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1633886026
- Language: English
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Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
$22.95 Add to cartFirst developed in 1955, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is the original form of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and one of the most successful psychotherapeutic techniques in the world. Its found… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: April 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1633889033
- Language: English
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Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment
$20.00 Add to cartThis revealing, disturbing, and thoroughly researched book exposes a dark side of faith that most Americans do not know exists or have ignored for a long time-religious child maltreatment. After speak… [more below]
- Author: Heimlich, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: June 21 2011
- ISBN10: 161614405X
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
$20.99 Add to cartMore than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of “tulipom… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: MacKay, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928917
- Language: English
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Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind’s Exploration of Space
$21.95 Add to cartFilled with rare and little-known stories, Space Oddities will bring the final frontier to the homes of diehard space readers and armchair astronauts alike.
- Author: Cuhaj, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887847
- Language: English
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Osteoarthritis: Preventing and Healing Without Drugs
$18.99 Add to cartOsteoarthritis affects over 20 million Americans and is the most common degenerative disorder in the United States. It causes more disability than any other degenerative disease and is occurring in ep… [more below]
- Author: Bales, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591026156
- Language: English
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Pi: A Biography of the World’s Most Mysterious Number
$21.95 Add to cartIn this delightful layperson’s introduction to one of math’s most interesting phenomena, Drs. Posamentier and Lehmann review pi’s history from prebiblical times to the 21st century, the many amusing a
- Author: Posamentier, Alfred S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633889084
- Language: English
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Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Epistemology
$21.95 Add to cartDescribed by Hilary Putnam as “both a fine introduction and a significant contribution” to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as “at once comprehensive … and judicious,” Evidence and Inquiry is un… [more below]
- Author: Haack, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159102689X
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
$20.00 Add to cartThis illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftly and for a time became a highly controversial subjec… [more below]
- Author: Walters, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141905
- Language: English
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What If It’s Not Alzheimer’s?: A Caregiver’s Guide to Dementia
$24.95 Add to cartAlthough the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimer’s disease, the medical profession continues to advance distinctions of various types of “other” dementias. What If It’s Not Alzheimer’
- Author: Radin, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163388872X
- Language: English
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Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World
$19.00 Add to cartWhat if you discovered an infinitesimally thin material capable of conducting electricity, able to suspend millions of times its own weight, and yet porous enough to filter the murkiest water? And wha… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1633883256
- Language: English
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The Love Songs of Sappho
$17.00 Add to cartCalled the “Tenth Muse” by the ancients, Greece’s greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sapp… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 157392251X
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of History
$14.99 Add to cartHegel’s Philosophy of History stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker’s efforts to capture the multidimensional character of reality within a broad theoretical framework.Heg… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0879756314
- Language: English
