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.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
Harper Perennial, April 1992. Trade Paperback. "In remarkably readable prose (even when dealing with physics), Talbot explores the ways in which our concepts of time, personality, even consciousness are altered by defining them as holographic. . .This book presents controversial but fascinating material."-- "Booklist" "In remarkably readable prose (even when.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2000. Trade 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 Book Award -- Named a......
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......
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.....
Tarcher, April 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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 that specific.....
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.....
Cassell & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A good copy; no dust jacket. Minor loss to the spine ends, corners frayed, spine rubbed. With the bookplate of Harold Parker on the front pastedown, and his ownership signature on the title page dated 1889.
Allen Press, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume I: Parts A-F, pp. 1-704; Volume II: Parts G-I, pp.705-1674. First editions (first printings). Near fine set of two volumes in orange cloth. Covers with slight scuffs and soiling. No dust jackets as issued.
Princeton University Press, 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse.....
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.....
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.....
Basic Books, October 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Discover the "fascinating" and surprising science of the creepers, crawlers, wrigglers, and runners that live in our homes (The Washington Post) -- and learn why they're essential to our everyday lives. However domesticated our houses appear, they are wild beyond imagination.....
Knopf, March 2006. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd--Professor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT and originator of the first technologically feasible design for a working quantum computer--the answer is yes. This wonderfully accessible book illuminates.....
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, February 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). 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.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1996. Trade Paperback. During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their longitude, sailors were literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Ships ran aground on rocky shores; those traveling.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2018. Trade Paperback. In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an immensely engaging exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time.....
Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Hardcover. 210 pages. Asimov answers 100 questions on science put to him by magazine readers. Second printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
W H Freeman & Co, 1992. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Scientific American Library, 1994. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In this work, the cosmologist, Joseph Silk, describes what is currently known about the history and construction of the universe. Recent discoveries about fluctuations in cosmic background radiation and their implications are included.....
Scientific American library, 1996. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In Gravity's Fatal Attraction, Martin Rees (Astronomer Royal) and Mitchell Begelman explore gravity where it is infinitely strong: in black holes. These mind-boggling structures can have a mass up to billions of times.....
Arcturus Publishing, June 2019. Trade Paperback.