Popular science books

7626 books were found.

Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World

Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature...

Author: Ann Moyal (c/o Marie Baird, Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9780801880520
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Eloquent and concise, Platypus uncovers the earliest theories and latest discoveries about this delightfully odd...  Read More >>

Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times

Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics...

Author: A. Einstein ,  M. Born
ISBN: 9781349729111
Format: Paperback
$129.35

A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters , is also highly...  Read More >>

Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times

Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics...

Author: A. Einstein ,  M. Born
ISBN: 9781403944962
Format: Hardback
$71.15

A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters , is also highly...  Read More >>

The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins...

Author: Christopher Beard ,  Mark Klingler
ISBN: 9780520233690
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Chronicles the saga of two centuries of scientific exploration in search of anthropoid origins, from the early work...  Read More >>

Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World

Phylloxera: How Wine Was Saved for the World

Author: Christy Campbell
ISBN: 9780007115365
Format: Paperback
$26.99

 Read More >>

Das Geheimnis des kürzesten Weges: Ein mathematisches Abenteuer

Das Geheimnis des kürzesten Weges: Ein mathematisches...

Author: Peter Gritzmann ,  Rene Brandenberg
ISBN: 9783540221937
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Mit dem Auto auf möglichst kurzem Wege von München nach Hamburg zu fahren, ist keine große Übung: Es geht auf die...  Read More >>

Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral

Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and...

Author: David Dobbs
ISBN: 9780375421617
Format: Hardback
$66.00

"Reef Madness opens up the world of nineteenth-century science and philosophy at a moment when the nature of scientific...  Read More >>

White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity

White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity

Author: J. Perkinson ,  J Perkinson
ISBN: 9781403965844
Format: Paperback
$89.76

White Theology re-examines white race privilege throughout history and its relationship to black theology.  Read More >>

Mold in Dr Florey's Coat, The: The Story of the Penicillin M iracle

Mold in Dr Florey's Coat, The: The Story of the Penicillin...

Author: Eric Lax
ISBN: 9780805077780
Format: Paperback
$44.88

The author chronicles the true story of the Oxford scientists who discovered penicillin by experimenting on mould....  Read More >>

Best of the National Air and Space Museum

Best of the National Air and Space Museum

Author: Hakima Amri (Joy Hakim)
ISBN: 9781588341600
Format: Hardback
$65.87

In the first book of her three part series, Hakim invites readers of all ages to meet the forebears of modern science...  Read More >>

Bionik: Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse in Natur-, Ingenieur- und Geisteswissenschaft

Bionik: Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse in Natur-, Ingenieur-...

Author: Torsten Rossmann ,  Cameron Tropea
ISBN: 9783540218906
Format: Hardback
$340.56

In vielen Wissenschafts- und Technikzweigen ist der praktische Nutzen der Bionik anerkannt. Die Losung technischer...  Read More >>

Living with Germs: In Sickness and in Health

Living with Germs: In Sickness and in Health

Author: J. H. L. Playfair
ISBN: 9780192805812
Format: Hardback
$105.57

 Read More >>

Radiation And Modern Life: Fulfilling Marie Curie's Dream

Radiation And Modern Life: Fulfilling Marie Curie's...

Author: Alan E. Waltar
ISBN: 9781591022503
Format: Hardback
$58.99

Provides numerous examples of radiation's uses in agriculture, medicine, electricity generation, industry, transportation,...  Read More >>

Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life

Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life...

Author: David Harry Grinspoon
ISBN: 9780060959968
Format: Paperback
$47.52

An anecdotal exploration of the possibility of extraterrestrial life by a NASA advisor draws on scientific data,...  Read More >>

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest

Author: Steve Jenkins
ISBN: 9780618494880
Format: Paperback
$18.35

Paper collages illustrate the descriptions of some of the most remarkable places on earth, including the hottest,...  Read More >>

Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods

Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically...

Author: Nancy Marie Brown ,  Nina V. Fedoroff
ISBN: 9780309097383
Format: Paperback
$65.87

While European restaurants race to footnote menus, reassuring concerned gourmands that no genetically modified ingredients...  Read More >>

Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities

Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities

Author: Tony Hallam
ISBN: 9780198524977
Format: Hardback
$37.95

A tour of the cataclysmic events and gradual extinctions that have punctuated life on Earth over the past 500 million...  Read More >>

About Science, Myself and Others

About Science, Myself and Others

Author: V.L. Ginzburg
ISBN: 9780750309929
Format: Hardback
$399.00

 Read More >>

Thinking Like Einstein

Thinking Like Einstein

Author: Thomas G. West
ISBN: 9781591022510
Format: Hardback
$58.99

Investigates the worlds of visual thinking, insight, and creativity made possible by computer graphics and information...  Read More >>

Great Mythconceptions

Great Mythconceptions

Author: Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 9780732280628
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Tackling life's myths and absurdities, this book attempts to tease and tempt us by debunking (or not) common urban...  Read More >>

Being Me - What It Means to Be Human

Being Me - What It Means to Be Human

Author: Pete Moore
ISBN: 9780470850893
Format: Paperback
$39.47

a O brave new world, That has such people ina t!a Shakespeare, The Tempest New scientific developments...  Read More >>

Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning

Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst...

Author: A. Meharg
ISBN: 9781403944993
Format: Hardback
$116.16

Venomous Earth is the story of the worst chemical disaster in history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down...  Read More >>

Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

Author: Amir D. Aczel
ISBN: 9780743464796
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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

Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List