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A Scientific American Top Ten Book of 2023If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its...

From the writer of Science on the Web comes the first in a planned series of Internet Travel Guides that gives readers the best of a specific subject area on...

This text explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise and spread. The book is an expansion of the article from "Scientific American" which discussed developments...

An exhilarating chronicle of the most revolutionary advancements in recent-and future-technology Which new technologies are bound to have the biggest impact on our lives in the years ahead? This groundbreaking...

Take a fantastic voyage through the whorls and curves of the human brain, no miniaturisation required. Learn everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people think...

The fascinating and dramatic story of a forgotten, life-saving cure to conquer deadly bacterial infections - bacteriophages - and the remarkable scientists behind them When antibiotics started to fail the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the cutting edge of mid-twentieth-century discovery, Scientific American Reader presents a sweeping panorama of human knowledge, assembling...

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. "This was the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.,Previous ownerA sweeping tour through the natural world awaits in Animals of Land...

If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus...

Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation...

Author: Teasel Muir-Harmony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 On July 20th, 1969, over half of the world's population tuned in to witness the first lunar landing, waiting with bated...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. At the heart of the American capital lies a sprawling complex of museums,...

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific...

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Space & Astronomy Bargain Book Box Look up, then read about what you saw. Inside: the 1919 eclipse that proved Einstein right and made him famous overnight. The decades-long effort...

This volume presents views of American sociology from minority groups and important intellectual movements that did not merge into the mainstream. Coinciding with the centenary of the American Sociological Association,...

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A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...

Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in...

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more...

Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the...

Benjamin Franklin flying his electric kite is one of the most celebrated images of any Founding Father's life. Yet, as Tom Tucker argues convincingly in Bolt of Fate, the kite...

A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...

Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...

Author: David Beers QuinnBinding: HardbackPublished: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative historical account chronicles England's foundational involvement in...

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. The Annual Report of the Board of Regents of...

Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays that presents the dilemma of communicating modern physics to both physicists and nonphysicists. Some addressed to a general audience, some...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American natural history loom as large as John James Audubon, and Francis Hobart...

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Author: No Author StatedBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, 1984Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Scopes Trial by Kevin Tierney chronicles the...

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Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a...

Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 per cent of Americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, despite it being one of science's best-established findings. More and more parents are...

Author: Kevin J. Hayes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An action-packed retelling of the life and work of the polymath and so-called First American, Benjamin Franklin. All Benjamin Franklin...

These vividly recounted tales of human skill and ingenuity offer fascinating views of the correlation between theories, practical inquiries, ideas, and facts. Re-created strictly on the basis of the original...

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a...

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Find out ALL ABOUT science in this fun-filled fact book for kids aged 7+. Uncover the secrets of the scientific world! Packed with fascinating facts, super stats, phenomenal photos, and...

Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...

A charming and illustrated gift book profiling 50 famous women in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering (STEM). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .This "wittily illustrated and accessible volume" (The Wall Street...