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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 Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science’s darkest secrets, “a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Scie- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316496510
- Language: English
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Bioinspired: How Nature Made Us Modern, Drives Today’s Technological Innovation, and Inspires a Future Worth Inventing
$35.00 Read moreSince the dawn of humanity, nature has inspired our best ideas and most revolutionary inventions–this book shows how nature shapes innovation today, and how it may be the key to a sustainable future.… [more below]
- Author: Stier, Samuel Cord
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1643261444
- Language: English
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Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
$50.00 Add to cartDelve into the story of science – from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics – with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, discoveries, and inventions that shaped our world.
Going- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0744045614
- Language: English
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
$19.99 Add to cartSoaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, a
- Author: Falk, Seb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868400
- Language: English
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Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon
$28.00 Add to cartNamed one of Lit Hub’s most anticipated books of the year.
A searing reflection on the last day of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the end of foreign reporting in the nation’s daily newspapers.
D- Author: Tamarkin, Elisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0226846997
- Language: English
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Myriad, Microscopic and Marvellous: The World of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
$30.00 Add to cartThe fascinating life and legacy of a pioneering seventeenth-century microbiologist.
The pioneering Dutch microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek uncovered hidden worlds of minuscule life. With his inge- Author: Dekkers, Geertje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390971
- 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 Add to cartA 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
$27.00 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 Add to cartAn 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 Add to cartIn 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
