History
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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
$34.99 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
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
$19.00 Add to cartA myth-shattering view of the Islamic world’s myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Wes
- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120565
- Language: English
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Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance
$24.99 Add to cartA Dark History Revealed
In the early twentieth century, eugenics was at the forefront of scientific discourse in the quest to understand human genetics. On Long Island and throughout the nation, eugen
- Author: Torres, Mark A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 146715833X
- Language: English
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
$40.00 Add to cartThe secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart.
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first “explorers” who dug up cadavers a- Author: Dunn, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0316225797
- Language: English
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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein
$18.99 Add to cartA nuanced portrait of Albert Einstein, a world citizen pivotally engaged in politics, humanitarianism, and science.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the most influential scientist of the twentieth centu… [more below]- Author: Buchwald, Diana Kormos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 019767819X
- Language: English
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Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
$22.50 Add to cartWith 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 Add to cartThe 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 Read moreFrom 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
