The Universe in a Nutshell
Bantam, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Bantam, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Free Press, September 2002. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. "The truth belongs to everyone, but error is ours alone." "-- The Measure of All Things" Amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure.....
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.....
Basic Books, October 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A "playful, enlightening," and "effervescent exposé" (Scientific American) on the queens of the animal kingdom Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared.....
Lyons Press, October 2014. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state.....
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.....
Simon & Schuster, March 1999. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. How and where did life begin? Is it a chemical fluke, unique to Earth, or the product of intriguingly bio-friendly laws governing the entire universe? In his latest far-reaching book, "The Fifth Miracle," internationally.....
Little, Brown and Company, July 2011. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The beating heart of the sun is the very pulse of life on earth. And from the ancients who plotted its path at Stonehenge to the modern scientists who unraveled the nuclear fusion.....
Back Bay Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" -- one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature -- has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the.....
Atlantic Monthly Press, September 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of ManWhen twenty-two-year-old aspiring.....
Vintage, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years--with charts and line drawings throughout. "Fascinating.... A readable introduction to the whole field and great on the.....
Grand Central Publishing, September 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. For readers of Giulia Enders' Gut and Bill Bryson's The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science journalist Bryn Nelson. The future is sh*t: the literal kind.....
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.....
Princeton University Press, November 2006. Hardcover. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A Note from the Author: On August 24, 2006, at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, by a majority vote of only the 424 members present, the IAU.....
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, July 2001. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Asteroids suggest images of a catastrophic impact with Earth, triggering infernos, tidal waves, famine, and death -- but these scenarios have obscured the larger story of how asteroids have been discovered and studied. During the.....
Cambridge University Press, February 1999. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field--the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the nature of meteorites, where they.....
Springer, 2000. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Prior to the space age, little was known about Jupiter. Focusing on the Galileo mission, this book tracks the remarkable spacecraft gestation, the ordeal of its long haul out to Jupiter, and its 5 year long exploration of the.....
Praxis, February 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Cassini at Saturn - Huygens Results brings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004. Here the author reports 8 months of.....
Springer, 2002. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear. Saturn is back in the news! The Cassini/Huygens spacecraft, a joint venture by NASA and the European Space Agency, is on its way to Saturn, where it will arrive in July 2004. During 2005 it will.....
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.....
HarperCollins, April 2003. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good belly band iwth slight wear to edges. The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java.....
Random House Inc, June 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral--an unheard-of honor for a subject whose.....
Vintage, March 2017. Trade Paperback. 'Lab Girl' is the story of a girl who becomes a scientist. It's also the story of a career and the endless struggles over funding, recognition, and politics that get in the way. It's the story of plants and soil she studies. But - and.....
Mariner Books, December 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A "clear, accessbile" investigation into the philosophical and scientific foundations of human life, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists (San Francisco Chronicle). Joy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe--these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In the.....
Riverhead Books, February 2023. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology.....