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Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science

Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest...

Author: Ian Sample
ISBN: 9780465019472
Format: Hardback
$68.51

A prize-winning science writers history of the forty-year search for the Higgs boson, and the intense rivalries,...  Read More >>

Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics

Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics...

Author: Misha Angrist
ISBN: 9780061628337
Format: Hardback
$71.25

In April 2007, Misha Angrist became the fourth subject in the Personal Genome Project, George Church's ambitious...  Read More >>

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number...

Author: Robin Dunbar
ISBN: 9780674057166
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Why do men talk and women gossip, and which is better for you? Why is monogamy a drain on the brain? And why should...  Read More >>

Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives us Life

Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives...

Author: Richard Cohen
ISBN: 9780743259286
Format: Hardback
$126.61

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

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit...

Author: Richard Conniff
ISBN: 9780393068542
Format: Hardback
$71.15

The story of bold adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of planet...  Read More >>

Life of Earth: Potrait of a Beautiful, Middle-Aged, Stressed-Out World

Life of Earth: Potrait of a Beautiful, Middle-Aged,...

Author: Stanley A. Rice
ISBN: 9781616142254
Format: Hardback
$56.99

Takes you on a journey through the history of the Earth - from the evolution of life to the future of the human...  Read More >>

Who Cloned My Cat?: Fun Adventures in Biotechnology

Who Cloned My Cat?: Fun Adventures in Biotechnology...

Author: Renneberg Reinhard
ISBN: 9789814267656
Format: Hardback
$79.07

""Science is fun!"" is the motto of this fun-filled book. With cartoonists Manfred Bofinger and Ming Fai Chow, Reinhard...  Read More >>

Climate Change for Football Fans: A Matter of Life and Death

Climate Change for Football Fans: A Matter of Life and...

Author: James Atkins ,  David Mostyn
ISBN: 9781906860356
Format: Paperback
$11.99

A funny and enlightening book that looks at climate change and football through a series of conversations between...  Read More >>

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Author: Albert Einstein ,  Alice Calaprice (Senior Editor)
ISBN: 9780691138176
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Features roughly 1,600 quotes in all. This book includes sections unique to the ultimate collection such as ""On...  Read More >>

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing...

Author: Richard B. McKenzie
ISBN: 9781441926449
Format: Paperback
$73.89

This book unravels an array of pricing puzzles from the one captured in the book's title as to why so many prices...  Read More >>

Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society

Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science...

Author: Jeremy Bernstein
ISBN: 9781441926241
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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The Photographic Card Deck of the Elements: With Big Beautiful Photographs of All 118 Elements in the Periodic Table

The Photographic Card Deck of the Elements: With Big...

Author: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9781603761987
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the world through evolutionary eyes

The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the world through evolutionary...

Author: Christopher Wills (Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego)
ISBN: 9780199584383
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Christopher Wills embarks on a series of adventures that illustrate how evolution and ecology have interacted to...  Read More >>

Figuring It Out: Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math

Figuring It Out: Entertaining Encounters with Everyday...

Author: Nuno Crato
ISBN: 9783642048326
Format: Hardback
$72.60

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography...

Author: Michael Neufeld ,  Alex M. Spencer
ISBN: 9781426206535
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The official story and insiders’ tales of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum are shared by its curators,...  Read More >>

Armageddon Science: The Science of Mass Destruction

Armageddon Science: The Science of Mass Destruction...

Author: Brian Clegg
ISBN: 9780312598945
Format: Hardback
$68.61

Climate change. Nuclear devastation. Bio-hazards. The Large Hadron Collider. What do these things have in common?...  Read More >>

How Intelligence Happens

How Intelligence Happens

Author: John Duncan
ISBN: 9780300154115
Format: Hardback
$73.92

Understanding how brains build intelligence is among the most fascinating challenges of modern science. How does...  Read More >>

Information and Its Role in Nature

Information and Its Role in Nature

Author: Juan G. Roederer
ISBN: 9783642062001
Format: Paperback
$237.47

Information and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of information...  Read More >>

The Physics Of Superheroes

The Physics Of Superheroes

Author: James Kakalios
ISBN: 9780715639115
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Exploring everything from thermo-dynamics to sold state physics, and relating the physics in comic books to such...  Read More >>

1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics

1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics

Author: Acheson
ISBN: 9780199590025
Format: Paperback
$23.95

This excellent book, written by the established author David Acheson, makes mathematics accessible to everyone....  Read More >>

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue...

Author: Bruce Parker
ISBN: 9780230616370
Format: Hardback
$73.92

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The Forest and the City: The Cultural Landscape of Urban Woodland

The Forest and the City: The Cultural Landscape of Urban...

Author: Cecil C. Konijnendijk
ISBN: 9789048178599
Format: Paperback
$261.36

In some cases, cities have even developed, and in some cases are promoting, a distinct forest identity. This book...  Read More >>

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