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The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Paperback Revised and Updated for 2020 NY Times Best Seller Medicine and Science
$17.99 Add to cartNew for 2020! Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of medical myths, mishaps and mayhem, including modern day med… [more below]
- Author: McElroy, Sydnee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1681886510
- Language: English
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
$19.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story–and fascinating mystery–of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who t- Author: Raff, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1538749696
- Language: English
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The Immune System: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The immune system is central to human health. Growing understanding of the immune system, and especially the creation of immune memory (which resu- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Klenerman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0198936583
- Language: English
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The Powerful Primate: How Controlling Energy Enabled Us to Build Civilization
$30.00 Read moreA captivating journey through humanity’s relentless quest to harness and control physical power, fueling groundbreaking innovations while leaving a profound impact on our planet–from the acclaimed au… [more below]
- Author: Ennos, Roland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668062798
- Language: English
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Ciencia (Science): The Definitive Visual Guide
$50.00 Add to cartLa nueva edici?n de Ciencia, actualizada y ampliada con los descubrimientos cient?ficos m?s recientes que han cambiado nuestro mundo para siempre.
Desde los or?genes del pensamiento cient?fico hasta l- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217129935
- Language: Spanish
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
$21.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book.”–The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous museum of the past- Author: Fortey, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 037570261X
- Language: English
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long for… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 1594484015
- Language: English
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I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
$30.00 Read moreAn energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary ideas to be accepted–from Darwin to Pasteur to modern day Nobel Prize winners.
For- Author: Kaplan, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1250372275
- Language: English
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief
$35.00 Read moreIn this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0307379671
- Language: English
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The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of science
Science is the basis of our assumptions about- Author: Dear, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0691235848
- Language: English
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Crick: A Mind in Motion
$36.00 Add to cartA “thrilling biography of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds” (David Eagleman): Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and audacious genius
What are th- Author: Cobb, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541602889
- Language: English
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Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science
$40.00 Add to cartFlush with hundreds of illustrations, this book revisits the histories of chemistry, medicine, ideas, and culture through the lens of alchemy
The craft of alchemy has intrigued and mystified people s- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300280874
- Language: English
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Chemistry 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Chemistry’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Add to cartChemistry: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in chemistry in concise, 100-wo… [more below]
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0593961625
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
$30.00 Read moreThe surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape.
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Pe- Author: Alexander, Amir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226820726
- Language: English
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Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
$29.95 Add to cartThe strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America–from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”
In 1995, a scandal erupted whe- Author: Linker, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 069123549X
- Language: English
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Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
$30.00 Add to cartNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN
“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus “By turns phi- Author: Clancy, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593538188
- Language: English
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Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
$35.00 Add to cartBy early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324036745
- Language: English
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A Little History of Science
$15.00 Add to cartA lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages
Science is key to understanding the infinite distances of space, the tiniest living organisms body and the history of our p- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Bynum, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283210
- Language: English
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
$26.00 Read moreThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1400031877
- Language: English
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The Science Book
$29.99 Add to cartDid the universe start with a Big Bang? Is light a wave, a particle – or both? Is a “Theory of Everything” possible?
Explaining the key milestones in the field of science in a clear and simple way, Th- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593962060
- Language: English
