History
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Caesar’s Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us
$19.99 Add to cartThe Guardian‘s Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe.
It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0316381659
- Language: English
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On Growth and Form
$26.00 Add to cartWhy do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D’Arcy Thompson’s classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1107672562
- Language: English
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
$18.00 Read more“Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” –President Barack Obama (on Twitter)
“An important book.” –Steven Pinker, The New York Times- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0525538860
- Language: English
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
$38.00 Read moreThe first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present.
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived- Author: Wellerstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022602038X
- Language: English
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
$19.95 Read more“Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book.”–Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medic
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 067429386X
- Language: English
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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate
$17.00 Read moreWhy is the scientific community so unified?
In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna’s Double Helix
$20.00 Read moreJames Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 132405039X
- Language: English
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Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supe- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taub, Liba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0198736991
- Language: English
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
$39.95 Add to cartThe story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth ce… [more below]
- Author: Forbes, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1616149426
- Language: English
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Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750
$37.00 Read moreWonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision th
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0942299914
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
$21.00 Add to cartNapoleon’s Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made … [more below]
- Author: Le Couteur, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 24 2004
- ISBN10: 1585423319
- Language: English
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The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
$19.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Gi- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245606
- Language: English
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Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
$23.99 Add to cartThis “inside account captures the energy–and the madness–of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine).
Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story- Author: Zachary, G. Pascal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1497638836
- Language: English
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Kali Linux: Kali Linux Made Easy For Beginners And Intermediates; Step By Step With Hands On Projects (Including Hacking and Cyber
$19.89 Add to cartYou are about to discover how to start hacking with the #1 hacking tool, Kali Linux, in no time, even if you’ve never hacked before!
Kali Linux is the king of all penetration testing tools out there. B
- Author: Craig, Berg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1951737180
- Language: English
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Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEveryone has heard of the term “pseudoscience,” typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gordin, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0190944420
- Language: English
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
$19.00 Add to cartWilliam Harvey’s On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive evidence based on d… [more below]
- Author: Harvey, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: August 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1498235085
- Language: English
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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
$38.00 Read moreFrom water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the el… [more below]
- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 022677595X
- Language: English
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
$22.99 Add to cartThe author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for m- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0316182354
- Language: English
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Silk: A World History
$32.50 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists
- Author: Prasad, Aarathi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063160250
- Language: English
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
$28.99 Add to cartStiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers–some willingly, some unwittingly–have been involved in scien… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393050939
- Language: English
