Science
There are 118 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Sale: $16.98 Hardcover List Price $45.00 
add to wish list |
|
Bird Songs from Around the World
by Les Beletsky  Publisher Comments Discover two hundred of the world's most spectacular birds in Bird Songs from Around the World, the follow-up to the national best-seller Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song, Drawing from the collection of the world-renowned Macaulay Library at...
|
||||||
Online Sale: $19.25 Hardcover List Price $27.50
add to wish list |
|
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by Michael S. Gazzaniga Publisher Comments One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. What happened along the...
|
||||||
New: $28.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
by James Gustave Speth Publisher Comments How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit...
|
||||||
New: $18.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Philip G. Zimbardo Publisher Comments What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer...
|
||||||
New: $24.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank
by Amelia Thomas Publisher Comments The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, dead-end street in the once prosperous farming town of Qalqilya, on the very edge of the West Bank. The zoo's bars are rusting; peacocks wander quiet avenues shaded by broad plane trees; a teenage baboon broods...
|
||||||
Used: $8.00 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
by David Lindley Publisher Comments Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's...
|
||||||
New: $24.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
by Maddalena Bearzi Publisher Comments Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side...
|
||||||
New: $25.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
by Kenneth R Miller Publisher Comments A leading scientist examines the battle between evolution and Intelligent Design in America At the dawn of the twenty- first century, the debate over Darwin's theory of evolution is nearly as contentious as it was in the notorious Scopes trial a century...
|
||||||
New: $15.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate
by Dallas Murphy Publisher Comments In To Follow the Water, critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist’s eye for detail and a historian’s drive for...
|
||||||
Sale: $8.98 Hardcover List Price $17.95
add to wish list |
|
Leaves & Pods
by Josie Iselin Publisher Comments From the delicate new growth that emerges in springtime to jewel-toned fall foliage to winter's brown husks, leaves unfurl, mature, and wither in a life cycle that evokes our own. But a tree's leaves and the protective pods that cradle its seeds not only...
|
||||||
Used: $16.95 Trade Paper List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change
by Chris Goodall 
Powells.com Staff Pick Ordinary people taking action in their daily lives might just save the planet. Goodall explains how easy it is to aid our threatened world-climate by reducing our personal carbon dioxide emissions. Recommended by Tracey, Powells.com...
|
||||||
Used: $16.95 Hardcover List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
by James E. McWilliams Publisher Comments The World of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from Mrs. Ellis's Housekeeping Made Easy, the nineteenth-century guide to using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators, to the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man...
|
||||||
Used: $10.00 Trade Paper List Price $17.95
add to wish list |
|
A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
by Clifford D. Conner Publisher Comments Showing how ordinary people participate in creating science, this text documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people have perceived that development....
|
||||||
Used: $8.00 Trade Paper List Price $15.00
add to wish list |
|
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by Kim Todd Publisher Comments I THINK VAUGHN IS GOING TO USE SOME ART ELEMENTS ON THE BACK COVER TOO Praise for CHRYSALIS "In this revolutionary biography of Maria Merian, Kim Todd has rewritten history to include this woman of courage, dedication and genius, and...
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen Publisher Comments Worldchanging is packed with information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers access to the tools they need to build a better future. Written by a diverse collaborative of innovators, Worldchanging demonstrates that the means for making a...
|
||||||
New: $16.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
by Peter Woit Publisher Comments When does physics depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble theology? Peter Woit argues that string theory isn’t just going in the wrong direction, it’s not even science. Not Even Wrong shows that what many physicists call...
|
||||||
New: $27.50 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound with CD (Audio)
by David Rothenberg Publisher Comments Whale song is an astonishing world of sound whose existence no one suspected before the 1960s. Its discovery has forced us to confront the possibility of alien intelligence-not in outer space but right here on earth. Thoughtful, richly detailed, and...
|
||||||
New: $23.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers
by Andrew Hodges Publisher Comments What Lynne Truss did for grammar in Eats, ShootsandLeaves, Andrew Hodges now does for mathematics. Andrew Hodges, one of Britain's leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating...
|
||||||
New: $21.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Green Guide: The Complete Reference for Consuming Wisely
by Green Guide Magazine Publisher Comments Paper or plastic? Organic or conventional? In a world that is rapidly going green, how does the average person make decisions that are smart for the family--and good for the planet? The Green Guide is here to help, with the concepts and choices for Earth-...
|
||||||
Sale: $29.98 Hardcover List Price $59.95
add to wish list |
|
Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds
by Christopher Perrins Synopsis The ultimate reference to the vast world of birds. Discover a family of birds who are phenomenal fliers but cannot walk or climb. There is a species that nests at the Arctic Circle and winters at the lower tip of South America, migrating up to 235,000...
|
||||||
