Essays
-
Essays on Art and Science
$19.95 Add to cartWhen we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science–in psychology
- Author: Kandel, Eric R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0231220855
- Language: English
-
A Short History of Nearly Everything: 2.0
$39.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and … [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217287925
- Language: English
-
The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out about Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Proc
$37.50 Read moreAn unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society.
From assaults- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888457566
- Language: English
-
Essays on Art and Science
$26.95 Add to cartWhen we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science–in psychology
- Author: Kandel, Eric R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0231212569
- Language: English
-
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
$21.99 Add to cart*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick*
*A “Next Big Idea Book Club” Must Read*
*An Esquire Best Book of 2023*
*A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April*
*A BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBR*
*A Wired Bo… [more below]- Author: Green, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1335008004
- Language: English
-
Letters from an Astrophysicist
$19.95 Add to cartAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to g
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1324003316
- Language: English
-
Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood
$18.95 Add to cartPeople live by their stories–how can we use them to accelerate action on climate change?
Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core S
- Author: Henderson, Anna Farro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1517916046
- Language: English
-
Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe
$26.95 Read moreInsightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist’s everyday conversations with his fellow humans–taxi drivers, to be pr
- Author: Cockell, Charles S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271831
- Language: English
-
The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
$20.00 Add to cartWhy, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the st… [more below]
- Author: Storr, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1468310100
- Language: English
-
The Universe: A Biography
$34.95 Read moreEveryone knows astronomers use telescopes to peer into distant space. But did you know that they also use them as time machines to look back into the past? In this fascinating and original book, world
- Author: Murdin, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024642
- Language: English
-
The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions about the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover the universe’s last unknowns–here are the unanswered questions that obsess “the world’s finest minds” (The Guardian)
Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thi
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062897942
- Language: English
-
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish
$29.95 Read moreJoin Zeb Hogan, host of the National Geographic television show Monster Fish, on the science adventure of a lifetime.
On May 1, 2005, a Thai fisherman caught a truly monstrous Mekong giant catfish. A- Author: Hogan, Zeb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1647790573
- Language: English
-
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry
$22.00 Add to cartIn this book of illustrated essays, Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.
Poetry and scie- Author: Popova, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1635868831
- Language: English
-
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe
$21.00 Add to cartBestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world, and beyond by examining some astonishing facts that reveal the vast complexities of the un… [more below]
- Author: Chown, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1635765943
- Language: English
-
The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World
$25.99 Add to cartDaedalus, the great inventor of ancient myth, fashioned wings so that he and his son Icarus could escape imprisonment. But it all went awry when Icarus ignored his father’s warnings and flew too close
- Author: Tracy, Gene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988207023
- Language: English
-
Microbe Hunters: The Story of the Microscopic Discoveries That Changed the World
$19.95 Add to cartIn this classic international bestseller, first published in 1926, bacteriologist and pathologist Paul de Kruif offers an accessible and fascinating account of the first scientists to explore the micr… [more below]
- Author: de Kruif, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0486849953
- Language: English
-
Eureka!: Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year
$14.95 Read moreIntroduced by Jim Al-Khalili
Could you surf down an erupting volcano? Why do zebras have stripes? Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci? Are there any green mammals? Why do pineappl- Author: New Scientist
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1529394139
- Language: English
-
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human pr
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062374346
- Language: English
-
Yard Birds: The Lives and Times of America’s Urban Chickens
$24.95 Add to cartIn 2009, the New Yorker declared chickens the “it bird” and heralded “the return of the backyard chicken.” This honor occurred as, a host of American cities were changing their laws to allow chickens
- Author: Levy, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949653
- Language: English
-
What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries – And Reveal How Today’s Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World
$14.95 Read moreEvery day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn’t every day you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khali… [more below]
- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1615194703
- Language: English
