History
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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 Read more‘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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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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From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries
$17.95 Read moreA leading figure in twentieth-century physics offers impressions and recollections of the field’s development. Nobel Laureate Emilio Segr (1905-89) knew and worked with many of modern physics’ preemi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics
- Author: Segrè, Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0486457834
- Language: English
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Isaac Newton
$18.00 Add to cartIsaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral–an unheard-of honor for a sub… [more below]
- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400032954
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
$18.99 Read moreThis entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understanding the world today–from refrigeration and jet engines to calorie counting and global warming–is “… [more below]
- Author: Sen, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1501181319
- Language: English
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
$30.00 Read moreSoaring 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 132400293X
- Language: English
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Two New Sciences/A History of Free Fall
$33.95 Read more- Author: Galilei, Galileo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0921332505
- Language: English
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The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
$24.99 Read moreA compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!
Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by- Author: McElroy, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1681883813
- Language: English
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The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
$50.67 Read moreAn “elegant”, “engrossing” (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why — despite technological advances — the workings of our most essential orga… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646851
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science
$26.00 Read moreFINALIST 2019 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an underappreciated genius and describes his many contribut… [more below]
- Author: Mahon, Basil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1633883310
- Language: English
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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
$29.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of … [more below]
- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: December 25 2003
- ISBN10: 076241698X
- Language: English
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We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us
$32.95 Read moreHow the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us.
“Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” In We Are All Monster- Author: Mangham, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047527
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartWe know it simply as “the pill,” yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig’s masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a ch
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351890
- Language: English
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Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps
$70.00 Add to cartLavishly illustrated with full-color geological maps, tables of strata, geological cross-sections, photographs, and fossil illustrations from the archives of the Oxford University Museum of Natural Hi… [more below]
- Author: Oxford University Museum of Natural Hist
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 022675488X
- Language: English
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The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla
$16.95 Read moreNikola Tesla’s Electricity Unplugged is a unique anthology of hand-picked Tesla articles, arranged historically, which presents overwhelming and convincing evidence for the reality of Tesla’s high eff… [more below]
- Series: Lost Science (Adventures Unlimited Press)
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: June 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0932813194
- Language: English
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The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of comput- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Swade, Doron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0198831757
- Language: English
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The Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy & Wireless Transmission of Power
$19.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Fantastic Adventures of Nikola Tesla, The Anti-Gravity Handbook and The Free Energy Device Handbook, science and UFO author David Hatcher Childress takes us into the incredible… [more below]
- Author: Tesla, Nikola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0932813860
- Language: English
