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.....
Ecco, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The New York Times Bestseller From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin--a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life.....
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.....
Basic Books, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). No single breakthrough in twentieth-century physics (with the possible exception of quantum mechanics) changed our view of the world more than that of Einstein's discovery of relativity. The notions that the flow of time is not a constant, that.....
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......
BenBella Books, June 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But now science is ready to take a seat at the table. According to the prevailing scientific paradigm, the.....
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.....
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;.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....