Science & Technology
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
$24.99 Add to cartThe renowned British primatologist continues the “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania (Publishers Weekly).
In her classic, In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote
- Author: Goodall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 0547336950
- Language: English
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Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler Than Its Parts
$32.00 Add to cartMarginalian Editions presents a groundbreaking poet’s biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century–and an ingenious, expansive treatise on Ame
- Author: Rukeyser, Muriel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1961341158
- Language: English
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Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
$31.99 Read moreTo his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a k
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075104
- Language: English
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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
$22.95 Add to cartAn exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and resh… [more below]
- Author: Ghose, Shohini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 026255299X
- Language: English
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I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein
$30.00 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy — “a must-read for anyon… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Kieran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1541603575
- Language: English
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
$19.99 Add to cart“Edward Dolnick’s smoothly written history of the scientific revolution tells the stories of the key players and events that transformed society.” — Charlotte Observer
From New York Times bestselling
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0061719528
- Language: English
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
$24.99 Read moreOne of Esquire‘s 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine B
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0062947230
- Language: English
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The Snow Leopard: (Penguin Orange Collection)
$18.00 Add to cartPart of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
Winner of- Series: Penguin Orange Collection
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 014312952X
- Language: English
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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles
$19.99 Add to cartWalter Isaacson’s Einstein meets Craig Brown’s 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes.
Most of us wo- Author: Graydon, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1982185112
- Language: English
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Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography
$24.95 Add to cartAn engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von Humboldt
In this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Ale- Author: Daum, Andreas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0691247366
- Language: English
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Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography
$24.95 Read moreAn engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von Humboldt
In this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Ale- Author: Daum, Andreas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0691247366
- Language: English
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Empowered: Frame Your Narrative. Own Your Power.
$19.99 Add to cartThrough our challenges, we all need a reminder that our stories can empower our journeys!
Serena Sacks-Mandel built a successful tech career on the foundation of a tough childhood. Brick by brick, she
- Author: Sacks-Mandel, Serena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1958481238
- Language: English
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The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk
$32.99 Add to cartAn admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor.
One of the most influential figures of our time, Elon Musk is the most talked about man in America who
- Author: Kneale, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063381265
- Language: English
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What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
$34.00 Add to cartOur climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future?
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provoca- Author: Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593229363
- Language: English
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
$30.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science
- Author: Sobel, Dava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163823
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
$30.00 Add to cartThe revelatory story of an intellectual giant who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination against women in science.
Emmy Noether is one- Author: Phillips, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541702956
- Language: English
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One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward: One Woman’s Path to Becoming a Biologist
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist
Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps–not the shortest or the straightest- Author: Grant, B. Rosemary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691260591
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
$17.95 Add to cartA leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Barres, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539543
- Language: English
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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
$32.00 Read moreThe first biography–“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)–of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose- Author: Barss, Patchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603664
- Language: English
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
$29.99 Read moreBenjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and
- Author: Munson, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882233
- Language: English
