Science
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
$28.00 Add to cartJohn Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0525556575
- 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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Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions
$16.00 Read moreA Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics’ biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality.
At the start of the twentieth century,- Series: The France Chicago Collection
- Author: Aspect, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832015
- Language: English
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American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
$30.00 Add to cartAn expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the Unite… [more below]
- Author: Paoletta, Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0553387375
- 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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Sekret Machines: War: Sekret Machines Gods, Man, and War Volume 3
$32.99 Add to cartWith Gods, we asked the first question: Does our religion and our science give evidence that human civilization is a cargo cult, triggered by Contact sometime in prehistory?
With Man, we asked the sec- Series: Sekret Machines: Gods Man & War
- Author: Delonge, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 194327245X
- 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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Physics of the Soul: The Quantum Book of Living, Dying, Reincarnation, and Immortality
$24.95 Read more“Dr. Amit Goswami is one of the most brilliant minds in the world of science. His insights into the relationship between physics and consciousness have deeply influenced by understanding, and I am dee
- Author: Goswami, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1571747079
- Language: English
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
$19.00 Read moreThe solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a te
- Author: Brown, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0385531109
- Language: English
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
$22.95 Add to cartQuantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson’s terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level–a world of tiny dim… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 163388905X
- 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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Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry
$19.95 Read moreWhen this classic text was first published in 1935, it fulfilled the goal of its authors to produce a textbook of practical quantum mechanics for the chemist, the experimental physicist, and the begin
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Pauling, Linus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486648710
- Language: English
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Don’t Even Think about It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
$18.00 Add to cartAn Esquire Essential Book on Climate Change
From the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming s- Author: Marshall, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 163286102X
- Language: English
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The Complete Dinosaur
$85.00 Read morePraise for the first edition
“A gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts” —Science
“The amount of information in [these] pages is amazing. This book should be on the shelves of dinosaur freaks as well as
- Series: Life of the Past
- Author: Brett-Surman, Michael K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1128
- Publish Date: June 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0253357012
- Language: English
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
$19.00 Add to cartA myth-shattering view of the Islamic world’s myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Wes
- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120565
- 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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Stones: A Material and Cultural History
$35.00 Read moreThe story of our deep and multifaceted connections to geological matter–the very bedrock of our lives.
From small beach pebbles to huge megaliths, stones have been revered, collected, enhanced, scul- Author: Oldershaw, Cally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147719
- Language: English
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Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences
$14.95 Read moreFirst published in Polish in 1936, this classic work was originally written as a popular scientific book — one that would present to the educated lay reader a clear picture of certain powerful trends… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
- Author: Tarski, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 27 1995
- ISBN10: 048628462X
- Language: English
