Science & Technology
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Return to Fukushima
$19.95 Add to cartIs it possible to live in a nuclear exclusion zone? Return to Fukushima captures the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster, chronicling the resilience of people navigating life amid radioactivity.
Fuk
- Author: Bass, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1682195104
- Language: English
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Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein
$18.98 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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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
$23.00 Add to cartAn epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth–a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid doub… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1984855220
- Language: English
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The Book of the Frog
$21.00 Read moreFrogs are extraordinary creatures. Unlike most other animals, they have mastered both land and water, and are capable of breathing through their skins and their lungs. Some of them are so poisonous th
- Author: Coulthard, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1803288000
- Language: English
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Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World
$18.99 Add to cart“An important book that will transform how we think about being human. … that will inspire hope.”–Jane Goodall
How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that grounds us and energizes us when so
- Author: Foster, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0063289032
- Language: English
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
$29.99 Add to cartThe epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata–ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this bril
- Author: Poppick, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021608
- Language: English
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Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
$18.99 Add to cartThis “stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet” (Booklist), in the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change is affecting … [more below]
- Author: Vigliotti, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668008181
- Language: English
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Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
$34.95 Add to cartAn essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium–winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.
From the nursery- Author: Zeavin, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049554
- Language: English
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The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body
$30.00 Add to cartA myth-busting vindication of women’s physical strengths
For decades, Starre Vartan–like most women–was told that having a woman’s body meant being weaker than men. Like many women, she mostly beli- Author: Vartan, Starre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604423
- Language: English
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Out of This World and Into the Next: A Physicist’s Guide to Space Exploration
$29.95 Add to cartA theoretical physicist’s grand tour of how life emerged on Earth and how human civilization will begin expanding beyond our home planet.
This is a theoretical physicist’s grand tour of how life emerg- Author: Marais, Adriana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368817
- Language: English
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The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick
$30.00 Add to cartA healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases.
When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits–rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; wat- Author: Kalaugher, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2025
- ISBN10: 226840905
- Language: English
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Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
$32.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to… [more below]
- Author: Bloch, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242769
- Language: English
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Horror on the Brain: The Neuroscience Behind Science Fiction
$24.95 Add to cartIn this fascinating exploration of fear and madness, neuroscientist Dr. Austin Lim recounts psychology’s most bizarre and haunting real-life cases alongside famous speculative fiction that stretched t
- Author: Lim, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 149308478X
- Language: English
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Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook
$55.00 Add to cartOther Networks is writer and researcher Lori Emerson’s index of telecommunications networks that existed before and outside of the internet.
The internet as we know it is not a foregone conclusion. Ind… [more below]
- Author: Emerson, Lori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1944860657
- Language: English
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Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
$28.00 Add to cart‘Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed’ – George Monbiot
‘Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call’ – David Wallace-Wells
‘Powerf- Author: Lynas, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399410512
- Language: English
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Space Shuttle Stories: Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions
$35.00 Add to cartExperience all 135 NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts themselves in this spectacularly illustrated volume
With more than 600 photos from the NASA archives, thi- Author: Jones, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1588348032
- Language: English
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Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
$30.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world’s most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit, wisd… [more below]
- Author: Tyson, Neil DeGrasse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1426221770
- Language: English
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Common Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northeast
$12.95 Add to cart- Handy in-the-field identification guide
- Features the “Foolproof Five”
- Includes a useful identification flowchart
The northeastern United States is home to an enormous variety of mushrooms–some delicious
- Author: Fergus, C. Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 081172641X
- 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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The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life
$27.95 Add to cartAn awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins–how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet.
Each fall, a robin begins the long trek north from Gibraltar- Author: Rizk, Shahir S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 674292588
- Language: English
