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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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Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
$22.50 Read moreWith a stellar cast of scientists and science fictionists alike, a vivid exploration of realities behind imaginary planets.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a double sunset on Ta- Author: Cooper, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1789149940
- Language: English
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
$32.00 Read moreThe thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb
Although Henri Becquerel didn’t know it at the time, he changed history in 1895- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605896
- Language: English
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Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe
$29.95 Add to cartEnter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories.
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning cent- Author: Moller, Violet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163936837X
- Language: English
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The Science Book
$21.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593962052
- Language: English
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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
$22.00 Add to cart“Bold and intriguing.”–Wall Street Journal – “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review) – “Offers plenty of food for thought.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226840069
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design
$20.00 Add to cartDoes the universe embody beautiful ideas?
Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a… [more below]- Author: Wilczek, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109367
- Language: English
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Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Unexpected Life
The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery–these are all g- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 1594485380
- Language: English
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the w
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0061767905
- Language: English
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The History of Astronomy
$12.99 Add to cartThis is a fascinating introduction to the history of Western astronomy, from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the mid-nineteenth century. Historical records are first found in Babyl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hoskin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803069
- Language: English
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Serendipity: The Unexpected in Science
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Imperfection, a theory of uncertainty as the very core of the scientific method–and the essence of its wonder.
How many times have we looked for something and found som- Author: Pievani, Telmo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049155
- Language: English
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Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves
$35.00 Add to cartWhat we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.
Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what i- Author: Shapin, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 022683221X
- Language: English
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Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl
$18.00 Add to cart‘By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight.’ – Sunday Times
The story of recorded so- Author: Scott, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1472979834
- Language: English
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Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children’s Health
$30.00 Add to cartA pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemic
Every single child diagnosed with measles re- Author: Ratner, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593330862
- Language: English
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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
$18.99 Add to cartSome of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale–and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural enginee
- Author: Agrawal, Roma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086386
- Language: English
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What’s Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Levitt, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0063251205
- Language: English
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Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Add to cartBiology: 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 biology in concise, 100-word s… [more below]
- Author: Amsen, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0744093783
- Language: English
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The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here
$28.00 Add to cartWe love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality?
For decades we’ve delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from fl- Author: Kobie, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403109
- Language: English
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The Science of Why We Exist: A History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Consciousness
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Big Bang and the evolution of the genetic code to the birth of consciousness, this is the extraordinary story of the chain of events that led to human life on earth.
Have you ever wondered wh- Author: Coulson, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366520
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Stuff: The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Objects
$25.00 Add to cartExplore the past, present, and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons.
Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of amateur beachcombers have helped scientists study ocea- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081602
- Language: English
