Ecco, February 2012. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements--and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of.....
Pantheon, May 2011. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths.....
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and enthusiasm. Bringing together more than forty.....
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.....
Riverhead Books, September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An NPR Best Book of 2022 "The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply researched, and great fun. . . . Science isn't easy.....
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, October 2022. 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.....
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.....
N/A, January 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching.....
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 of.....
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.
Vintage, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time.....
Modern Library, November 1994. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. ." . . Fascinating . . . an insight into the thought processes of a great physicist." -- "Times Literary Supplement" In these "Messenger Lectures," originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by.....
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.....
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.....
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Signed copy. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition! "Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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;.....