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The "Scientific American" Guide to Science on the Internet: An
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...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
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...
One Renegade Cell: Quest for the Origins of Cancer
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...
Who Gives a Gigabyte?: A Survival Guide for the Technologically
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...
Instant Egghead Guide to the Mind: 60 Second Science
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 Living Medicine: The remarkable history of a life-saving cure and
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...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
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...
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
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...
Animals Of Land And Sea
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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...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
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...
Scientific American Reader
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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...
Diverse Histories of American Sociology
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,...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
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...
Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
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A Passion for Science
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the American Century
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The Smithsonian Experience: Science—History—The Arts . . . The Treasures Of The Nation
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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,...
Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the Problems of Sex
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Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and
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...
Bolt Of Fate: Benjamin Franklin And His Fabulous Kite
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...
Audubon The Naturalist: A History Of His Life And Time
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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...
Space & Astronomy Bargain Book Box
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...
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
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Boojums All the Way through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
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...
Benjamin Franklin
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...
The Scopes Trial: The World's Most Famous Court Trial. Tennessee Evolution Case.
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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...
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
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...
Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution: Showing The Operations, Expenditures, And Condition Of The Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1918
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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...
1959
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...
England And The Discovery Of America, 1481-1620
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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...
Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American
"An astonishing, exuberant treasure trove of history, science and hands-on activities that repeatedly begs the question: "Why didn't I know this?" Essential for kids and adults. We need this book."...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
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...
The Begum's Millions
When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban...
Webster's Third New International Dictionary And Seven Language Dictionary (Three-Volume Set)
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Author: Merriam WebsterBinding: HardbackPublished: Merriam-Webster, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsWebster’s Third New International Dictionary presents a comprehensive three-volume...
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for
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...
Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society
The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession
"An engaging romp." - New York Times Book Review "A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target...
Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were...
The Papers of Wilbur & Orville Wright, Including the Chanute-Wright Letters: Two Volumes
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Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Appears unread. Slipcase - good. A landmark work of aviation history and primary source scholarship, The Papers of...
Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments That Changed Our View
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...
Sex in America: A Definitive Survey
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For the first time ever, Sex in America reveals the myth-shattering results of the only comprehensive and methodologically sound survey of America's sexual practices and beliefs. In 1992, highly regarded...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
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...