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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman Publisher Comments Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autistic Brain: Thinking across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek Publisher Comments A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a Time Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hallucinations (Vintage) by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments An Amazon Top Book of 2012 Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane.... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level by Jessica Wapner Publisher Comments One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality by Dave Goldberg Publisher Comments A physicist speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe — from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies — is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door. In The Urban Bestiary, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes,... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover
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Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Still Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray Publisher Comments Best-selling author Theodore Gray is back with all-new, spectacular experiments that demonstrate basic principles of chemistry and physics in thrilling, and memorable ways. For nearly a decade, Theodore Gray has been demonstrating basic principles of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet. Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C.... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean Staff Pick Sam Kean proves that chemistry makes for great storytelling with this entertaining look at the human stories behind the elements found in the periodic table. A delightful history of science, The Disappearing Spoon makes for both an engaging and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz Publisher Comments In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard Publisher Comments A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body by Frances Ashcroft Publisher Comments What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical signals constantly traveling... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers by Curtis White Publisher Comments One of our most brilliant social critics — author of the bestselling The Middle Mind — presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big”... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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Sightlines: A Conversation with the Natural World by Kathleen Jamie Publisher Comments "When the day ended with time for questions, I had some turning in my head . . . About 'nature,' mostly, which we were exhorted to reconnect with. What was it, exactly, and where did it reside?" With her poet's eye and naturalist's affinity for wild... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall Publisher Comments On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper
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Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin Publisher Comments What is time? Its the sort of question we rarely ask because it seems so obvious. And yet, to a physicist, time is simply a human construct and an illusion. If you could somehow get outside the universe and observe it from there, you would see that every... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World by Peter Doherty Publisher Comments At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world--from... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Little History of Science by William Bynum Publisher Comments Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Life of a Leaf by Steven Vogel Publisher Comments In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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