Riverhead Books, May 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian "Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator... This is the place where science comes to life." ?Neil Gaiman "One of.....
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in.....
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.....
Riverhead Books, May 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian "Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator... This is the place where science comes to life." ?Neil Gaiman "One of.....
Crown Books for Young Readers, April 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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.....
Random House Inc, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel.....
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.
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.....
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.....
n.d., ca 1980s. Hardcover. 4 bound volumes of Jukes' publications, mostly offprints, from 1949-56 (Volume 1); 1960-71 (Volume 2); 1972-75 (Volume 3); `1975-1980 (Volume 4). Thomas H. Jukes (1906-1999) was a British-American biologist known for his work in nutrition, molecular evolution and for his public engagement with controversial scientific issues.....
Ballantine Books, October 1979. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Touchstone, October 2001. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In this "informative and delightful" (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind.....
W.W. Norton & Co., April 2009. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In ?Bonk, ?the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can.....
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.....
Payot, 1931. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 447 pages. Text in French. First edition (first printing). Very good in tanned wrappers (paperback).
University of California Press, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the.....
W. W. Norton, March 2008. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The study of sexual physiology--what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better--has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson.....
Vintage, September 2017. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel--a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last.....
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to.....
Saybrook, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 210 pages. 'Four Nobel Prize Laureates bring us a uniquely hopeful and creative vision of the human future and the future of humans who can make it possible' -- from the front flap. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, December 2016. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America.....
W. W. Norton, October 2006. 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 there a......
Ignatius Press, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Author Benjamin Wiker leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today. He introduces the young reader to people like Von.....