W. W. Norton & Company, March 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). America's space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American.....
Atria Books, May 2016. Trade Paperback. A fascinating look at cephalopods. This book clues us in to just how amazing, smart, and full of emotion octupi are. Warning: You'll be youtubing octupi for hours! A new copy. Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller.....
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when.....
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2017. Hardcover. Just like the title implies, Neil deGrasse Tyson condenses the essentials of the universe in this compact, quick to read book. Perfect for those of us that want to know, but simply do not have the time. A very good copy in.....
Vintage, January 2009. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," tells a "compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human" (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became.....
Doubleday, September 1992. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Ecco, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The New York Times Bestseller From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin--a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life.....
Perseus Books Group, April 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post-World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World.....
Basic Books, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein's discovery of relativity. The notions that the flow of time is not a constant, that.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Marvelous . . . an array of witty and astonishing stories . . . to illuminate how calculus has helped bring into being our contemporary world."--The Washington Post From preeminent.....
Riverhead Books, January 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." --The Times Magazine From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and the forthcoming Helgoland, a......
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2017. Hardcover. Just like the title implies, Neil deGrasse Tyson condenses the essentials of the universe in this compact, quick to read book. Perfect for those of us that want to know, but simply do not have the time. A new copy. What is.....
Lopngman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. 373 pages. Introducing the Lindley Method, an early form of plant taxonomy. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with some scuffing to boards, a bookplate to front free endpaper, sticker residue from a previous book plate, a small.....
Henry Holt and Company, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. 243 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with stamp from San Fancisco Microscopical Society on title page; no dust jacket.
Vintage, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Vivid. . . . Livewired reads wonderfully, like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan's front lawn." --The Wall Street Journal What does drug withdrawal have in common with a......
BenBella Books, June 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But now science is ready to take a seat at the table. According to the prevailing scientific paradigm, the.....
Bantam, October 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2019. Hardcover. A new copy. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing.....
BenBella Books, July 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). There are deep and fascinating links between heavy metal and quantum physics. No, really!While teaching at the University of Nottingham, physicist Philip Moriarty noticed something odd, a surprising number of his students were heavily into metal music. Colleagues, too.....
Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 1999. Hardcover. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most.....
Tarcher, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). For ten years, Jeremy Narby explored the Amazonian rain forests, the libraries of Europe, and some of the world's most arcane scientific journals, following strange clues, unsuppressible intuitions, and extraordinary coincidences. He collected evidence and researched the seemingly impossible possibility.....
Penguin Books, March 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life.....
Harvard Univ Pr, July 1975. Trade Paperback. It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological theory but had a profound and lasting influence on social, philosophic, and religious thought. This work is rightly regarded.....
Vintage, October 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). With passion and curiosity, Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science. He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature;.....