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Apollo Mission Control: The Making of a National Historic Landmark

Apollo Mission Control: The Making of a National Historic...

Author: Manfred ""Dutch"" von Ehrenfried
ISBN: 9783319766836
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini,...  Read More >>

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts who made man's first journey to the Moon

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts...

Author: Robert Kurson
ISBN: 9781925322880
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Fifty years ago, Christmas 1968, Man first orbited the Moon. This book tells the inside story of that epic journey....  Read More >>

Virtuelle und moegliche Welten in Physik und Philosophie

Virtuelle und moegliche Welten in Physik und Philosophie...

Author: Hans J. Pirner
ISBN: 9783662566145
Format: Mixed media product
$92.37

Was sind moegliche Welten und was haben Entwicklungen der modernen Physik mit Ideen uber moegliche Welten in der...  Read More >>

Introducing Science Through Images: Cases of Visual Popularization

Introducing Science Through Images: Cases of Visual...

Author: Maria E. Gigante
ISBN: 9781611178746
Format: Hardback
$84.70

The practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While...  Read More >>

The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis: Models of the Real World

The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis: Models of...

Author: Elena Prestini
ISBN: 9781493979615
Format: Paperback
$290.37

I can recommend it unconditionally… Elena Prestini… has taken one major mathematical idea, that of Fourier analysis,...  Read More >>

Science and Spiritual Practices: Reconnecting through direct experience

Science and Spiritual Practices: Reconnecting through...

Author: Rupert Sheldrake
ISBN: 9781473630093
Format: Paperback
$24.99

By the author of The Science Delusion a detailed account of how science can authenticate spirituality  Read More >>

Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami: The Story of the Largest Known Asteroid to Hit the Earth

Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami: The Story of the...

Author: David Shonting ,  Cathy Ezrailson
ISBN: 9783319818979
Format: Paperback
$129.35

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Big Science Transformed: Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States

Big Science Transformed: Science, Politics and Organization...

Author: Olof Hallonsten
ISBN: 9783319813585
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical...  Read More >>

Riddles in Your Teacup

Riddles in Your Teacup

Author: P Ghose ,  D Home (Bose Institute, Calcutta, India)
ISBN: 9781138429857
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Natural phenomena and ordinary, everyday things often contain surprises and puzzles when we attempt to understand...  Read More >>

Celebrating Soil: Discovering Soils and Landscapes

Celebrating Soil: Discovering Soils and Landscapes

Author: M.R. Balks ,  D. Zabowski
ISBN: 9783319813479
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world...  Read More >>

Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge

Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge

Author: Simon Schaffer ,  John Tresch
ISBN: 9783319826158
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection...  Read More >>

Obsessive Compulsions: The OCD of Everyday Life

Obsessive Compulsions: The OCD of Everyday Life

Author: C. Thomas Gualtieri
ISBN: 9781785928178
Format: Paperback
$48.99

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Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation

Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation

Author: Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)
ISBN: 9780198826002
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Jim Baggott sets out the scientific story of creation - 13.8 billion years from the Big Bang to human consciousness,...  Read More >>

Marcel Grossmann: For the Love of Mathematics

Marcel Grossmann: For the Love of Mathematics

Author: Claudia Graf-Grossmann ,  William D. Brewer
ISBN: 9783319900766
Format: Hardback
$72.42

He sends a plea for help to his former fellow student, the mathematician Marcel Grossmann (1878-1936), for he is...  Read More >>

Quantensinn und Quantenunsinn: Determinismus, Lokalitat und offene Fragen der Quantenmechanik

Quantensinn und Quantenunsinn: Determinismus, Lokalitat...

Author: Jean Bricmont ,  Carl Freytag
ISBN: 9783662567692
Format: Mixed media product
$79.17

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Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation

Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View...

Author: Harry Eyres
ISBN: 9783319821351
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from “the necessary distance” has wide and profound...  Read More >>

Fortress Plant: How to survive when everything wants to eat you

Fortress Plant: How to survive when everything wants...

Author: Dale Walters (Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198745617
Format: Paperback
$26.95

The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are food for a vast array of organisms,...  Read More >>

Psychedelic Revolutionaries: Three Medical Pioneers, the Fall of Hallucinogenic Research and the Rise of Big Pharma

Psychedelic Revolutionaries: Three Medical Pioneers,...

Author: P.W. Barber
ISBN: 9781786994363
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A fascinating investigation into a very strange episode of scientific history. P.W. Barber tells the story of the...  Read More >>

Psychedelic Revolutionaries: Three Medical Pioneers, the Fall of Hallucinogenic Research and the Rise of Big Pharma

Psychedelic Revolutionaries: Three Medical Pioneers,...

Author: P.W. Barber
ISBN: 9781786994356
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A fascinating investigation into a very strange episode of scientific history. P.W. Barber tells the story of the...  Read More >>

A Brief History of Mechanical Engineering

A Brief History of Mechanical Engineering

Author: Uday Shanker Dixit ,  Manjuri Hazarika
ISBN: 9783319826929
Format: Paperback
$310.47

What is mechanical engineering? This book informs and create interest on mechanical engineering in the general public...  Read More >>

A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution

A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution...

Author: Jennifer Doudna ,  Samuel Sternberg
ISBN: 9781784702762
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The author is the co-inventor of this technology, known as CRISPR, and a scientist of worldwide renown. In this...  Read More >>

The Secret Life of the Mind: How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides

The Secret Life of the Mind: How Our Brain Thinks, Feels...

Author: Mariano Sigman
ISBN: 9780008210953
Format: Paperback
$28.44

• Where do our thoughts come from? • How can we manipulate our dreams? • What is the role of the unconscious? •...  Read More >>

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy Seals, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy Seals, and...

Author: Steven Kotler ,  Jamie Wheal
ISBN: 9780062429667
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Originally published in hardcover in 2017 by Dey Street Books.  Read More >>

Risk: Why Smart People Have Dumb Accidents - And What We Can Learn From Them

Risk: Why Smart People Have Dumb Accidents - And What...

Author: Steve Casner
ISBN: 9781509818440
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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Consciousness: A Ladybird Expert Book

Consciousness: A Ladybird Expert Book

Author: Hannah Critchlow
ISBN: 9780718189112
Format: Hardback
$19.99

An accessible and authoritative introduction to Consciousness for adult readers. Part of the new Ladybird Expert...  Read More >>

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