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.....
The MIT Press, April 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that.....
Pantheon, January 2013. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the.....
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.....
Independently published, December 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). How would you like to actually see the dark secrets of the US nuclear weapons program. Stand on the site of the first nuclear reactor (CP-1). Stand in the control room of the first continuous operating reactor (X-10). Stand.....
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.....
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, 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.....
Ecco, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. New York Times Bestseller New York Times Notable Book of 2016 - NPR Great Read of 2016 - Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times.....
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, 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.....
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.....
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.....
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......
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.....