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The Big Idea: How the Greatest Breakthroughs of All Time are Shaping Our Future

The Big Idea: How the Greatest Breakthroughs of All...

Author: National Geographic ,  Timothy Ferris
ISBN: 9781426208102
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Open this book, grasp the newest ideas from thought leaders of today, then spring off from them to move back through...  Read More >>

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized...

Author: Dava Sobel
ISBN: 9780802717931
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth...  Read More >>

Persönlichkeit braucht Tugenden: Positive Eigenschaften für eine moderne Welt

Persönlichkeit braucht Tugenden: Positive Eigenschaften...

Author: Josef Rattner ,  Gerhard Danzer
ISBN: 9783642169908
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Ist Tugend eigentlich nur ein anderes Wort für Anständigkeit? Die Autoren beschreiben in ihrem Buch acht Charakterzüge...  Read More >>

My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time

My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One...

Author: Lone Frank
ISBN: 9781851688333
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Hung Like An Argentine Duck: A Journey Back In Time To The Origins Of Sexual Intimacy

Hung Like An Argentine Duck: A Journey Back In Time...

Author: John Long
ISBN: 9780732292737
Format: Paperback
$29.99

John's broader coverage of the evolution of sexual intimacy in the animal kingdom demonstrates that the gap between...  Read More >>

Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide

Author: Steve Jones ,  Borin Van Loon
ISBN: 9781848312951
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Compact INTRODUCING guide to Genetics by bestselling science writer Steve Jones  Read More >>

The Exceptional Brain: And how it changed the world

The Exceptional Brain: And how it changed the world...

Author: Robert Kaplan
ISBN: 9781742374444
Format: Paperback
$36.99

From da Vinci to van Gogh, Hitler to Howard Hughes, this is a fascinating investigation into how brain diseases...  Read More >>

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in Space...

Author: Mary Roach
ISBN: 9781851688234
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A surreally entertaining trip into the science of living in space.  Read More >>

Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and the Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy

Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and the Relentless...

Author: Tyler Hamilton
ISBN: 9781770410084
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An “illuminating and important” look at the scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are working to save us...  Read More >>

Bayesian Theory and Methods with Applications

Bayesian Theory and Methods with Applications

Author: Vladimir Savchuk ,  Chris P. Tsokos
ISBN: 9789491216138
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Bayesian methods are growing more and more popular, finding new practical applications in the fields of health sciences,...  Read More >>

Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry

Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health,...

Author: Elizabeth Grossman
ISBN: 9781610911610
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid

The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps...

Author: Michael Alley
ISBN: 9781441982780
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This book uses scores of examples to show the differences between scientific presentations that inform and persuade...  Read More >>

Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists

Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and...

Author: Kevin R. Grazier ,  Brendan Allison
ISBN: 9781935618683
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Viewers are captivated by ""Fringe"", a science fiction procedural in the best tradition of ""The X-Files"" with...  Read More >>

Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction

Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691144252
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Demonstrates how odd and unusual math problems can be solved by bringing together basic physics ideas and powerful...  Read More >>

Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According...

Author: John C. Lennox
ISBN: 9780310492177
Format: Hardback
$44.85

In response to the continuing controversy over the interpretation of the creation narrative in Genesis, John Lennox...  Read More >>

The Wondrous Universe: Creation without Creator?

The Wondrous Universe: Creation without Creator?

Author: Gerhard Börner
ISBN: 9783642201035
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The world as it is viewed from modern physics and cosmology has many strange and unexpected features. – Where are...  Read More >>

Cosmic Heritage: Evolution from the Big Bang to Conscious Life

Cosmic Heritage: Evolution from the Big Bang to Conscious...

Author: Peter Shaver
ISBN: 9783642202605
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements

Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements...

Author: John Emsley (Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199605637
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Since publication of John Emsley's Nature's Building Blocks in 2003 there have been a number of new developments....  Read More >>

War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality

War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality

Author: Dr Deepak Chopra, MD ,  Leonard Mlodinow
ISBN: 9780307886880
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow explore the religion vs. science debate in this eye-opening book.  Read More >>

Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality

Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions,...

Author: John Grant
ISBN: 9781616143992
Format: Hardback
$50.99

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Physik im 21. Jahrhundert: Essays zum Stand der Physik

Physik im 21. Jahrhundert: Essays zum Stand der Physik...

Author: Werner Martienssen ,  Dieter Röß
ISBN: 9783642051906
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Physik: 10 Essays aus berufener Hand. Physik ist eine höchst lebendige Wissenschaft! Einmal gewonnene Grundlagen-Erkenntnisse...  Read More >>

Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific...

Author: Lisa Randall
ISBN: 9780061723728
Format: Hardback
$79.17

The bestselling author of ""Warped Passages,"" one of ""TIME"" magazine's ""100 Most Influential People in the World,""...  Read More >>

About Time: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang

About Time: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight...

Author: Adam Frank ,  David Drummond
ISBN: 9781452654522
Format: Audio
$79.17

Author Adam Frank tells the story of humanity's deepest question-when and how did everything begin?-alongside the...  Read More >>

About Time: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang

About Time: Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight...

Author: Adam Frank ,  David Drummond
ISBN: 9781452604527
Format: Audio
$118.77

Author Adam Frank tells the story of humanity's deepest question-when and how did everything begin?-alongside the...  Read More >>

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