St. Martin's Griffin, November 2025. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of.....
Grove Press, October 2025. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many.....
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.....
Grove Press, October 2025. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo's Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Vintage, April 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century.....
Mountaineers Books, February 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and.....
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.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2022. 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.....
Vintage, February 2005. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From one of the world's leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes "an astonishing ride" through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in.....
Basic Books, June 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. A brilliant new voice in science writing--"witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best" (Mary Roach)--shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or.....
Bonanza, n.d. Hardcover. A paperback copy in very good condition. A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as.....
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......
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.....
Chronicle Books, February 2011. Hardcover. A new copy. The perfect incentive for keeping your head in the clouds, The Cloud Collector's Handbook is a whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky. Throughout, author and cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting.....
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 2024. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it's also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for.....
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers (since his first appearance over fifty years ago) as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom. George Gamow's classic.....
Prometheus Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. For many years the federal government funded the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), later popularized by Carl Sagan's novel Contact and the movie starring Jodie Foster. Though.....
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.....
National Academy of Sciences, 1983. First Edition. Unknown. 95 pages. From the Committee on Opportunities for Research in the Geological Sciences. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
National Acadamy Press, 1983. First Edition. Unknown. 81 pages. Report of a National Research Council Workshop in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 25 - 29, 1983. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Columbia Graphs, (1953). First Edition. Hardcover. 116 pages. Instructions for engineers to calculate the intensity of a pressure surge in order to create designs that eliminate their destructive effects. First edition (first printing). Gren cloth with gold lettering on the cover. A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Light.....