Popular science books

7627 books were found.

The Science of Illusions

The Science of Illusions

Author: Jacques Ninio ,  Franklin Philip
ISBN: 9780801437700
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Jacques Ninio, an international authority on visual perception, here explores the fascinating world of illusions....  Read More >>

Concepts of Race in the Eighteenth Century

Concepts of Race in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Robert Bernasconi ,  Robert Bernasconi
ISBN: 9781855068698
Format: Hardback
$4910.40

New collection of rare primary source materials tracing the development of a scientific concept of race in the 18th...  Read More >>

Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?

Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?...

Author: Michael Ruse
ISBN: 9780674005433
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Beginning with Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and ending with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey...  Read More >>

Madame Curie: A Biography

Madame Curie: A Biography

Author: Eve Curie ,  Vincent Sheean
ISBN: 9780306810381
Format: Paperback
$55.31

This account of the remarkable life and astonishing mind of one of the world's greatest scientists of the century,...  Read More >>

Barron's Science Study Dictionary

Barron's Science Study Dictionary

Author: Chris Prescott
ISBN: 9780764116520
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Fast reference is the key to this science dictionary, written and designed especially for junior and senior high...  Read More >>

Darwin's Forgotton Defenders

Darwin's Forgotton Defenders

Author: D. Livingstone
ISBN: 9781573830935
Format: Paperback
$21.95

 Read More >>

Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing

Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing

Author: John Harrison (Principal Consultant, Cambridge Psychometric Consultants & Honorary Research Psychologist at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford) ,  Simon Baron-Cohen
ISBN: 9780192632456
Format: Hardback
$185.95

"In ""Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing"", a world authority on synaesthesia takes us on a tour of this condition,...  Read More >>

Of Flies, Mice and Men

Of Flies, Mice and Men

Author: Francois Jacob ,  Giselle Weiss
ISBN: 9780674005389
Format: Paperback
$39.47

 Read More >>

Visions Of Technology: A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World

Visions Of Technology: A Century Of Vital Debate About...

Author: Richard Rhodes
ISBN: 9780684863115
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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

Life Under the Sun

Life Under the Sun

Author: Peter A. Ensminger
ISBN: 9780300088045
Format: Hardback
$93.95

This collection of essays explores how various organisms -including archaebacteria, slime moulds, fungi, plants,...  Read More >>

The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos

The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos

Author: Rowan-Robinson
ISBN: 9780192862167
Format: Paperback
$44.95

An encapsulation in nine numbers of all that modern astronomy has learnt about the universe. These cosmic numbers...  Read More >>

The Spark Of Life

The Spark Of Life

Author: Christopher Wills ,  Jeffrey Bada
ISBN: 9780738204932
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Untangling a century of contentious debate, the authors explore current theories of the source of life - from Martian...  Read More >>

How Brains Make Up Their Minds

How Brains Make Up Their Minds

Author: Walter Freeman
ISBN: 9780231120081
Format: Hardback
$61.95

I think, therefore I am. The legendary pronouncement of philosopher Rene Descartes lingers as accepted wisdom in...  Read More >>

Dark Life

Dark Life

Author: Michael Ray Taylor
ISBN: 9780747553007
Format: Paperback
$20.67

 Read More >>

Trilobite!

Trilobite!

Author: Richard Fortey
ISBN: 9780006551386
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A history of prehistory by the author of Life: An Unauthorized Biography.  Read More >>

Die Zahlen der Natur: Mathematik Als Fenster Zur Welt

Die Zahlen der Natur: Mathematik Als Fenster Zur Welt...

Author: Dr Ian Stewart (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9783827411235
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Ian Stewart Die Zahlen der Natur Mathematik als Fenster zur Welt Obwohl die Mathematik im Grunde ein rein gedankliches...  Read More >>

Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature

Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature...

Author: Daniel Nettle
ISBN: 9780198507062
Format: Hardback
$71.95

 Read More >>

The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior

The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human...

Author: Craig B. Stanford
ISBN: 9780691088884
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Based on insights into the behaviour of chimps and other great apes, our now extinct human ancestors, and existing...  Read More >>

Darwin: A Very Short Introduction

Darwin: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Jonathan Howard (Professor of Cell Genetics, Institute of Genetics, Professor of Cell Genetics, Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany)
ISBN: 9780192854544
Format: Paperback
$21.95

In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, Jonathan Howard reasserts the importance of Darwin's...  Read More >>

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence: A Philosophical Inquiry

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence: A Philosophical...

Author: David Lamb
ISBN: 9780415243421
Format: Paperback
$120.00

This study looks at the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI's) validity as a research programme and examines...  Read More >>

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence: A Philosophical Inquiry

The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence: A Philosophical...

Author: David Lamb
ISBN: 9780415243414
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This study looks at the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI's) validity as a research programme and examines...  Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List