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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's...

Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby
ISBN: 9780425238738
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Original publication and copyright date: 2010.  Read More >>

The 4-Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality

The 4-Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and...

Author: Richard Panek
ISBN: 9781851688210
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Meet the players in the most fundamental scientific revolution since Copernicus  Read More >>

Making Girls and Boys: Inside the Science of Sex

Making Girls and Boys: Inside the Science of Sex

Author: Jane McCredie
ISBN: 9781742231006
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Accessibly illuminates the biological science of gender in all its complexity, while giving us a wonderfully personal...  Read More >>

The Handy Physics Answer Book: Second Edition

The Handy Physics Answer Book: Second Edition

Author: Paul W. Zitzewitz
ISBN: 9781578593057
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Eschewing the usual mathematical explanations for physics phenomena, this approachable reference explains complicated...  Read More >>

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization...

Author: Steven Solomon
ISBN: 9780060548315
Format: Paperback
$47.49

""A narrative account of how water has shaped human society from the ancient past to the present""--Provided by...  Read More >>

Time Dilation the Reality: An Independant Review of Relativity Theory

Time Dilation the Reality: An Independant Review of...

Author: K. D. Hughes
ISBN: 9780956800206
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science

Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science...

Author: Steve Paulson
ISBN: 9780199743162
Format: Paperback
$28.95

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Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger

Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger

Author: Jeff Wise
ISBN: 9780230103481
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Veteran science journalist Jeff Wise dives into the latest research to produce an astonishing portrait of the brain's...  Read More >>

How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells

How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells...

Author: Lewis Wolpert (University College, London)
ISBN: 9780393339383
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Acclaimed biologist Lewis Wolpert eloquently narrates the basics of human life through the lens of its smallest...  Read More >>

Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden...

Author: Randi Hutter Epstein
ISBN: 9780393339062
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Making and having babies-what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver-have mystified women and men...  Read More >>

Physics DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition

Physics DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition

Author: Stan Gibilisco
ISBN: 9780071744508
Format: Paperback
$35.95

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Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking

Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking

Author: Göran Grimvall (Royal Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780801897177
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Read this book and enjoy your own ""Aha!moment.  Read More >>

Galileo

Galileo

Author: John L. Heilbron (Department of History, University of California Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199583522
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Galileo is aptly known as 'the father of modern science'. But there is much more to him than his well-known discoveries...  Read More >>

The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health

The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs...

Author: R. Douglas Fields
ISBN: 9780743291422
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Algorithms Unplugged

Algorithms Unplugged

Author: Berthold Vöcking ,  Helmut Alt
ISBN: 9783642153273
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Algorithms Unplugged presents some of the most beautiful algorithmic ideas in 41 articles written in colloquial,...  Read More >>

Die großen Fragen - Physik

Die großen Fragen - Physik

Author: Michael Brooks ,  Simon Blackburn
ISBN: 9783827426215
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and...

Author: Lauren Redniss
ISBN: 9780061351327
Format: Hardback
$50.00

The name Marie Curie is enshrined in every schoolchild's mind as one of the earliest and most inspirational female...  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World

The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material...

Author: Julie Hill
ISBN: 9780099546580
Format: Paperback
$24.99

But it is only by understanding what has gone wrong, that everyone - politicians, business people and us as consumers...  Read More >>

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo...

Author: Sean B. Carroll
ISBN: 9781849160483
Format: Paperback
$27.00

Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses,...  Read More >>

The Male Brain

The Male Brain

Author: Louann Brizendine, MD
ISBN: 9780553824872
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Did you know that the male brain is a lean, mean problem-solving...  Read More >>

Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong

Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children...

Author: Ashley Merryman ,  Po Bronson
ISBN: 9780091933784
Format: Paperback
$39.99

What if we told you ...that dishonesty in children is a positive trait that arguing in front of your kids can make...  Read More >>

Bewegte Bergwelt: Gebirge und wie sie entstehen

Bewegte Bergwelt: Gebirge und wie sie entstehen

Author: Florian Neukirchen
ISBN: 9783827427533
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Berge koennen auf unterschiedliche Weise entstehen: durch Kollision und Einengung, aber erstaunlicherweise auch...  Read More >>

The Science Of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us

The Science Of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us...

Author: Sheril Kirshenbaum
ISBN: 9780446559904
Format: Hardback
$47.00

From a scientist and journalist working in the tradition of Olivia Judson comes a wonderfully witty and erudite...  Read More >>

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