Science & Technology
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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
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Intertwined: From Insects to Icebergs
$32.95 Read moreA compelling call to action to focus on what connects us in nature to solve today’s problems.
In nature, everything is connected: from microscopic bacteria and soaring trees to animals struggling for s
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1421449978
- Language: English
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Spacecraft and Rockets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
$35.00 Add to cartDiscover the remarkable NASA spacecraft that have captured our imaginations for decades.
The rockets, rovers, satellites, and space stations that have charted courses into space are depicted in beauti- Series: NASA
- Author: Nasa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 179722509X
- Language: English
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Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Saito, Kohei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602723
- 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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Is Anyone Listening?: What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a leading researcher on dolphin communication, a deep dive into the many ways animal species communicate with their kin, their neighboring species, and us.
If you could pose one question to a d- Author: Herzing, Denise L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 022635749X
- Language: English
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The Power of Where: A Geographic Approach to the World’s Greatest Challenges
$59.99 Add to cartThe Power of Where presents the visionary concepts of Jack Dangermond, cofounder of Esri(R), the world’s leading mapping software company. With a foreword by bestselling author and writer for The Atla
- Author: Dangermond, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1589486064
- Language: English
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Atlas of a Threatened Planet: 150 Infographics to Help Anyone Save the World
$35.00 Read moreOur planet is a fascinating and complex place, but the challenges we face can seem overwhelming. How does our climate actually work? Should we worry about the global supply of drinking water? How much… [more below]
- Author: Gonstalla, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 164283386X
- Language: English
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The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity
$32.95 Read moreIn a rapidly changing world, are we on the brink of creating technology that outpaces our ability to control it?
Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, former president of the American Astronomical Society,
- Author: Wheeler, J. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085433
- Language: English
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Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Ev
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.
In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s delightful journey through th
- Author: Tyson, Neil Degrasse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1665019859
- Language: English
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Chain Reactions: The Hopeful History of Uranium
$29.95 Add to cartTracing uranium’s past–and how it intersects with our understanding of other radioactive elements–Chain Reactions aims to enlighten readers and refresh our attitudes about the atomic world.
Chain Re- Author: Santos, Lucy Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367446
- Language: English
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I Like Space … What Jobs Are There?
$15.99 Add to cartExplore a day in the life of 25 people whose jobs involve working with space. While it takes all kinds of jobs to put an astronaut in space, there are also space lawyers and space weather forecasters!… [more below]
- Series: That’s a Job?
- Author: Martin, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1684641675
- Language: English
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins–From Spices to Vices
$19.99 Add to cartAn evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted–and addicted–to them, in this “magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force” (Neil Shubin).
A deadly sec… [more below]
- Author: Whiteman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0316386677
- Language: English
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Botany for Dummies
$24.99 Add to cartHarvest basic botany knowledge from this abundant book
Botany For Dummies gives you a thorough overview of the fundamentals of botany, but in simple terms that anyone can understand. Great for supplem
- Author: Fester Kratz, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1394273894
- Language: English
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Smithsonian Atlas of Space: A Map to the Universe from the Big Bang to the Future
$60.00 Add to cartJourney to the farthest corners of the universe in this visually stunning coffee-table atlas by the former chief historian of NASA
300 maps and illustrations tell the incredible story of the past, pre- Author: Launius, Roger D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 158834780X
- Language: English
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The Power of Prions: The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Other Diseases
$24.95 Add to cartThe remarkable family of proteins that can make us very ill–but can also be linked to long-term memory, immunity, and the origin of life
Over the last decade, scientists have discovered the importanc- Author: Brahic, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0691252386
- Language: English
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Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock, and Wind at the Polar Extreme
$28.00 Add to cartWith stunning original photographs, an Antarctic scientist and explorer takes us to one of the most sublime, remote, and pristine regions on the planet.
The interior of Antarctica is an utterly prist- Author: Stump, Edmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0226829901
- Language: English
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The Science of Weed: An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis
$39.95 Add to cartA witty, engaging, in-depth, and evidence-based look at how cannabis affects our brains.
Pot, weed, ganja, chronic: whatever you call it, cannabis can profoundly affect the human body and brain. In The
- Author: Pearlson, Godfrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1421449951
- Language: English
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Food 5.0: How We Feed the Future
$17.99 Add to cartFood has become the new religion. While denominations such as paleo, vegan, and organic debate which is “the way,” we’re ignoring a truth that affects us all: to support a population nearing 10 billio… [more below]
- Author: Saik, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1544504519
- Language: English
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Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
$29.00 Add to cartThe James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes–and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of sc… [more below]
- Author: Panek, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0316570699
- Language: English
