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Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History...

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780674061606
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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How to Save the World with Salad Dressing: and Other Outrageous Science Problems

How to Save the World with Salad Dressing: and Other...

Author: Thomas Byrne ,  Tom Cassidy
ISBN: 9781851688555
Format: Paperback
$17.99

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The Origin of Species

The Origin of Species

Author: Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9780007902231
Format: Paperback
$9.99

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians

Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians

Author: Simon Gindikin ,  A. Shuchat
ISBN: 9781461284093
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the classic Russian text Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists...  Read More >>

Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter

Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures...

Author: Ellen Prager
ISBN: 9780226678726
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Takes us deep into the sea to introduce an astonishing cast of fascinating and bizarre creatures that make the salty...  Read More >>

Beyond Einstein's Unified Field: Gravity & Electro-Megnetism Redefined

Beyond Einstein's Unified Field: Gravity & Electro-Megnetism...

Author: John Brandenburg (John Brandenburg)
ISBN: 9781935487425
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Veteran plasma physicist John Brandenburg reveals the new theory that finally accomplishes what Einstein failed...  Read More >>

Global Catastrophic Risks

Global Catastrophic Risks

Author: Nick Bostrom (Department of Philosophy, Oxford University) ,  Milan M. Cirkovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade)
ISBN: 9780199606504
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global...  Read More >>

Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place

Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place

Author: A.K. Dewdney
ISBN: 9781461274629
Format: Paperback
$68.64

We encounter a hackberry tree whose branches perfectly reproduce the taxonomic Tree of Life, learn how it would...  Read More >>

The Best American Science Writing 2011

The Best American Science Writing 2011

Author: Rebecca Skloot ,  Floyd Skloot
ISBN: 9780062091246
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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Fibronectins

Fibronectins

Author: Richard O. Hynes
ISBN: 9781461279402
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Fibronectins comprise a class of high molecular weight glycoproteins present both in extracellular matrices and...  Read More >>

The Mechanosensory Lateral Line: Neurobiology and Evolution

The Mechanosensory Lateral Line: Neurobiology and Evolution...

Author: Sheryl Coombs ,  Peter Görner
ISBN: 9781461281573
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This volume represents the published proceedings of an international conference on the Neurobiology and Evolution...  Read More >>

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

Author: Matt Mogk
ISBN: 9781451641578
Format: Paperback
$36.96

A guide to all things zombie by the founder and head of the Zombie Research Society  Read More >>

Humans on Earth: From Origins to Possible Futures

Humans on Earth: From Origins to Possible Futures

Author: Filipe Duarte Santos
ISBN: 9783642053597
Format: Hardback
$184.67

This wide-ranging book considers the origins and rise of science and technology before moving on to discuss the...  Read More >>

Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs

Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs...

Author: Donald J. Albers ,  Gerald L. Alexanderson
ISBN: 9780691148298
Format: Hardback
$62.99

A collection of informal interviews and memoirs of sixteen prominent members of the mathematical community of the...  Read More >>

Rätsel der Kochkunst: Naturwissenschaftlich erklärt

Rätsel der Kochkunst: Naturwissenschaftlich erklärt...

Author: Herve This-Benckhard ,  R. Zolk
ISBN: 9783642647246
Format: Paperback
$184.77

Wieviel Mayonnaise kann man mit einem Eigelb machen? Für neugierige Feinschmecker und wißbegierige Köche und Köchinnen...  Read More >>

Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World

Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World

Author: Kenneth S. Deffeyes ,  Stephen E. Deffeyes
ISBN: 9780262516716
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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Einstein on the Road

Einstein on the Road

Author: Josef Eisinger
ISBN: 9781616144609
Format: Hardback
$50.99

At the height of his fame, Albert Einstein was a habitual globetrotter. During these voyages, between 1922 and 1933,...  Read More >>

A Planet of Viruses

A Planet of Viruses

Author: Carl Zimmer
ISBN: 9780226983356
Format: Hardback
$52.80

Science writer Carl Zimmer presents the latest research on how viruses hold sway over our lives and our biosphere,...  Read More >>

The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true

The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true...

Author: Richard Dawkins ,  Dave McKean
ISBN: 9780593066126
Format: Hardback
$79.99

What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen?...  Read More >>

Reactions: The private life of atoms

Reactions: The private life of atoms

Author: Peter Atkins (Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199695126
Format: Hardback
$45.95

Through an innovative combination of image and text, Peter Atkins explains the processes involved in chemical reactions....  Read More >>

Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry

Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry

Author: William H Brock (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9781849733243
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Light in style, this collection of essays about chemists and their discoveries will interest scientists, teachers,...  Read More >>

Here Be Dragons: How the study of animal and plant distributions revolutionized our views of life

Here Be Dragons: How the study of animal and plant distributions...

Author: Dennis Mccarthy
ISBN: 9780199595662
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Denis McCarthy's highly engaging account of biogeography shows how two great theories - evolution and plate tectonics...  Read More >>

Brainworks: The Mind-bending Science of How You See, What You Think, and Who You Are OR A Journey to the Depths of Your Mind 

Brainworks: The Mind-bending Science of How You See,...

Author: National Geographic
ISBN: 9781426207570
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Admit it. When you hear the word “neuroscience,” you expect something abstract and remote, very complex, of little...  Read More >>

The Complete World of Human Evolution

The Complete World of Human Evolution

Author: Chris Stringer ,  Peter Andrews
ISBN: 9780500288986
Format: Paperback
$37.99

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