Popular science books

7626 books were found.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Author: Mary Roach
ISBN: 9780141007458
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Everything you ever wanted to know about what happens to bodies after they die. In this exploration into the macabre,...  Read More >>

The Particle Odyssey

The Particle Odyssey

Author: F.E. Close ,  Michael Marten
ISBN: 9780198609438
Format: Paperback
$49.95

 Read More >>

Vanity, Vitality, and Virility

Vanity, Vitality, and Virility

Author: John Emsley
ISBN: 9780192805096
Format: Hardback
$57.50

From Viagra and selenium to whispering asphalt, nappies, and chewing gum, this title presents a portrait gallery...  Read More >>

Robotic Scorpion

Robotic Scorpion

Author: Melissa Stewart
ISBN: 9781592232116
Format: Hardback
$52.67

What do scorpions and robots have in common? Find out inside, when you go from biology to technology as you explore...  Read More >>

Quest: The Essence of Humanity

Quest: The Essence of Humanity

Author: Charles Pasternak ,  Baruch Blumberg
ISBN: 9780470851456
Format: Paperback
$47.39

An intriguing work of history, philosophy, and popular science that explores the human desire to quest. Scientists...  Read More >>

The Stars of Heaven

The Stars of Heaven

Author: Pickover
ISBN: 9780195171594
Format: Paperback
$39.95

 Read More >>

A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to A Quantum Computer

A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to A Quantum Computer...

Author: George Johnson
ISBN: 9780099452171
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The newest Pentium chip powering PCs and laptops contains 40 million electronic switches packed onto a piece of...  Read More >>

Watermark: The Disaster That Changed the World and Humanity 12,000 Years Ago

Watermark: The Disaster That Changed the World and Humanity...

Author: Joseph Christy-Vitale
ISBN: 9780743491907
Format: Paperback
$36.96

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

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction

Author: Eugenie C. Scott
ISBN: 9780313321221
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Written by a leading advocate for the teaching of evolution in American schools, this text offers a concise introduction...  Read More >>

The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet

The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet

Author: Edmond Mathez (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,) ,  James Webster
ISBN: 9780231125789
Format: Hardback
$237.60

From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion...  Read More >>

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Author: Peter Atkins (, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford, and Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198609414
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. This book introduces the author's...  Read More >>

The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the 21st Century

The Science Before Science: A Guide to Thinking in the...

Author: Anthony Rizzi
ISBN: 9781418465049
Format: Paperback
$52.67

What is the key to the truth and power of science? Can I keep science and my common sense? Can we travel back in...  Read More >>

Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics

Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings,...

Author: Stephen Webb
ISBN: 9780387029306
Format: Hardback
$72.60

We all know the universe started with the Big Bang, but what about before? Cosmologists have just begun to develop...  Read More >>

Napoleon'S Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

Napoleon'S Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History...

Author: Penny Le Couteur ,  Jay Burreson
ISBN: 9781585423316
Format: Paperback
$45.00

 Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind: from Plato to Proust, from Shakespeare to Sigmund Freud

The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind: from Plato to Proust,...

Author: Stephen Wilson
ISBN: 9780747568575
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Our concern with the mind and how the hurt mind can be healed has led to a massive growth of interest in psychology...  Read More >>

Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur

Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's...

Author: Tom Rea
ISBN: 9780822958468
Format: Paperback
$42.24

This is an account of how Andrew Carnegie obtained a world-class dinosaur skeleton for his newly founded museum...  Read More >>

Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction

Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Frank Close (Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College)
ISBN: 9780192804341
Format: Paperback
$31.55

An introduction to the fundamental constituents of the universe. Beginning with a guide to what matter is made of...  Read More >>

The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex

The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex...

Author: Morowitz
ISBN: 9780195173314
Format: Paperback
$31.95

When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and...  Read More >>

Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes

Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific...

Author: Walter Gratzer (Emeritus Professor, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780198609407
Format: Paperback
$52.95

A collection of stories, revealing the human face of science. It encompasses some 200 anecdotes illustrating scientists...  Read More >>

Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics

Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics

Author: Ian Stewart (, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9780198613367
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Presents magical puzzles, each one of which is spun around a tale such as: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great...  Read More >>

Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks

Six Degrees: The New Science of Networks

Author: Duncan Watts
ISBN: 9780099444961
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Scientists have begun to apply insights from the theoretical study of networks to understand forms as superficially...  Read More >>

Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids

Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids

Author: Sidney Perkowitz ,  Joseph Henry Press
ISBN: 9780309096195
Format: Paperback
$42.11

As scientists draw on nanotechnology, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, and materials science, they are...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List