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......
Back Bay Books, June 2011. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly.....
Henry Holt and Co., September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense.....
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.....
Ballantine Books, March 1997. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." ; *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New.....
Dutton, February 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. For readers of Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Katie Mack, and anyone who wants to know what theoretical physicists actually do. This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have.....
Penguin Books, May 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . . --Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn.....
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.....
The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1929. Hardcover. 316 pages, followed by 20 pages of ads. Illustrated mostly in black-and-white. Blue cloth with gold lettering and rules. A very good copy lacking the jacket. Spotting to page edges and endpapers. Former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper.
Harper Perennial, May 2019. Trade Paperback. How precise is this book? Winchester explores the Age of Precision dating back to avid-supporter Thomas Jefferson who ushered into the U.S. the concept of Standardization. A remarkable journey of how we got where we are and why so much of the Natural World.....
Pegasus Books, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. One of the world's leading experts on genetics unravels one of the most important breakthroughs in modern science and medicine. If our genes are, to a great extent, our destiny, then what would happen if mankind could engineer and alter the.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). -- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists -- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is.....
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.
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.
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.....
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic.....
State University of New York Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Though best known for his superlative poetry and plays, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) also produced a sizable body of scientific work that focused on such diverse topics as plants, color, clouds, weather, and geology.....
Crown Books for Young Readers, April 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Trade Paperback. Paginagted 325-412. 7-3/4 by 10-3/4 inches. Illustrated in blackk-and-white. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould.