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The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who'Ve Lived the Longest

The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People...

Author: Dan Buettner
ISBN: 9781426207556
Format: Paperback
$21.09

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Energy and American Society – Thirteen Myths

Energy and American Society – Thirteen Myths

Author: Benjamin K. Sovacool ,  Marilyn A. Brown
ISBN: 9789048173952
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Takes on a central quandary in the study of energy and environmental policy: What myths continue to exist in American...  Read More >>

Changing Forests: Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras

Changing Forests: Collective Action, Common Property,...

Author: Catherine M. Tucker
ISBN: 9789048177813
Format: Paperback
$287.76

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, “Changing Forests” explores how the indigenous Lenca community of...  Read More >>

Communicating Science in Social Contexts: New models, new practices

Communicating Science in Social Contexts: New models,...

Author: Donghong Cheng ,  Michel Claessens
ISBN: 9789048179282
Format: Paperback
$525.36

Established theoretical models now seem out of step with the social reality of the sciences, and the previously...  Read More >>

Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life

Author: Horst Rauchfuss ,  T. N. Mitchell
ISBN: 9783642097638
Format: Paperback
$366.96

How did life begin on the early Earth? And we are just beginning to understand how molecular interactions regulate...  Read More >>

The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated...

Author: Gregory Cochran ,  Gregory Cochran
ISBN: 9780465020423
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them...  Read More >>

Mathematics and Culture VI

Mathematics and Culture VI

Author: Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9783642099595
Format: Paperback
$211.07

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Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation

Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and...

Author: Ted Fishman
ISBN: 9781416551027
Format: Hardback
$72.60

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Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space

Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy...

Author: Harrison Schmitt
ISBN: 9781441920256
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Turquoise: The World Story of a Fascinating Gemstone

Turquoise: The World Story of a Fascinating Gemstone...

Author: Joe Dan Lowry
ISBN: 9781423602897
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Mined on six continents and traded by cultures throughout the world's history, set in silver and gold jewelry, and...  Read More >>

The Einstein Dossiers: Science and Politics - Einstein's Berlin Period with an Appendix on Einstein's FBI File

The Einstein Dossiers: Science and Politics - Einstein's...

Author: Siegfried Grundmann ,  Anne Hentschel
ISBN: 9783642065071
Format: Paperback
$184.67

In particular, the author carefully scrutinizes Einstein's FBI file from 1950-55 against mostly unpublished material...  Read More >>

Wood and Tree Fungi: Biology, Damage, Protection, and Use

Wood and Tree Fungi: Biology, Damage, Protection, and...

Author: Olaf Schmidt
ISBN: 9783642068751
Format: Paperback
$340.56

A book providing an overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber. Special focus...  Read More >>

Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath

Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath

Author: C.V. Vishveshwara
ISBN: 9783642069734
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath is a humourous and informal rendition of the story of gravitation...  Read More >>

The Engineer and the Scandal: A Piece of Science History

The Engineer and the Scandal: A Piece of Science History...

Author: Reint de Boer
ISBN: 9783642062063
Format: Paperback
$287.76

The Engineer and the Scandal gives an in-depth study into an important part of the development of the Theory of...  Read More >>

Laws of Nature

Laws of Nature

Author: Peter Mittelstaedt ,  Paul A. Weingartner
ISBN: 9783642063220
Format: Paperback
$472.56

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A Brief History of Computing

A Brief History of Computing

Author: Gerard O'Regan (SQC Consulting, Cork, UK)
ISBN: 9781849967259
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This comprehensive book provides an introduction into the key topics in the history of computing in an easy-to-follow...  Read More >>

Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still

Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still

Author: Atle Naess ,  J. Anderson
ISBN: 9783642060243
Format: Paperback
$118.67

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The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's are One

The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's are...

Author: Sylvia A. Earle ,  Bill McKibben
ISBN: 9781426206399
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions,...

Author: Brian Greene (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780393338102
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The international bestseller that inspired a major Nova special and sparked a new understanding of the universe....  Read More >>

Dudley's Universe

Dudley's Universe

Author: Dudley Basson
ISBN: 9781920094935
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Honeybee Democracy

Honeybee Democracy

Author: Thomas D. Seeley
ISBN: 9780691147215
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. This book reveals that these incredible insects have...  Read More >>

Neutrino

Neutrino

Author: Frank Close (Professor of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, and Fellow in Physics, Exeter College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199574599
Format: Hardback
$50.03

Neutrinos are as near to nothing as anything we know, and so elusive that they are almost invisible. Frank Close...  Read More >>

Why Can't Elephants Jump?: and 113 more science questions answered

Why Can't Elephants Jump?: and 113 more science questions...

Author: New Scientist
ISBN: 9781846683985
Format: Paperback
$32.74

"What's the storage capacity of the human brain in gigabytes? What's the farthest point on land from the sea? Why...  Read More >>

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