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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
$18.00 Add to cart“Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book…Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you.” –Bill Gates
A New- Author: Walker, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 19, 2018
- ISBN10: 1501144324
- Language: English
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The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
$19.99 Add to cartThree of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society–and what this technology means for us all.
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316273996
- Language: English
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The Grand Design
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of mo… [more below]- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 21 2012
- ISBN10: 055338466X
- Language: English
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions about Dead Bodies
$15.95 Add to cartEveryone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to o
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 22, 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358496
- Language: English
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Stars and Planets
$19.99 Read moreThe clearest, most accessible guide to observing the night sky.
Introducing the Handbook of Stars and Planets – the perfect beginner’s guide to the night sky!
With a highly visual introduction that exp- Series: DK Smithsonian Handbook
- Author: Ridpath, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0744058090
- Language: English
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
$21.00 Add to cartRichard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal best
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 24, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416594795
- Language: English
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Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
$17.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian
A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish- Author: Miller, Lulu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 1501160346
- Language: English
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Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
$17.99 Add to cartAn Economist Book of the Year
Every minute of every day, our data is harvested and exploited… It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy. Governments and hundreds of corporations are s- Author: Veliz, Carissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1612199674
- Language: English
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You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
$19.95 Add to cartLeading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life–for better or worse
Few of us give much thought to computer code or h- Author: Bosch, Torie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0691208484
- Language: English
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
$18.00 Add to cartThe hidden costs of artificial intelligence–from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom
“This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly- Author: Crawford, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264631
- Language: English
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Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
$18.00 Add to cartThe award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim- Author: Doty, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14, 2017
- ISBN10: 0399183647
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
$24.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and intractable questions that sc
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 14, 2004
- ISBN10: 076790818X
- Language: English
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An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
$24.00 Add to cartConfronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity’s future will be defined not by expansion but by contra
- Author: Jackson, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0268203660
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Time
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin–and wha- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0553380168
- Language: English
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
$18.00 Add to cart“Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” –Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outli
- Author: Alter, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 0735222843
- Language: English
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The Industries of the Future
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.While Alec R
- Author: Ross, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476753660
- Language: English
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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters
$20.95 Read moreThe real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can’t find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrenc… [more below]
- Author: Poundstone, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 0316256528
- Language: English
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Lies They Teach in School: Exposing the Myths
$12.95 Read moreIt is a cliché that history is written by the victors, but what we accept as history is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told th… [more below]
- Author: Reich, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: July 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 1616085967
- Language: English
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Flying Saucers and Science: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of Ufos: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups
$22.95 Read moreFlying Saucers and Science is a comprehensive look at the scientific data on the
flying saucer phenomenon. Nuclear physicist and lecturer Stanton T. Friedman
has distilled more than 40 years of resear- Author: Friedman, Stanton T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 1601630115
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
$17.99 Read moreIn this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics — the search for the laws of nature — is losing its way. Smolin offers an unblinking assessme
- Author: Smolin, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04, 2007
- ISBN10: 061891868X
- Language: English
