Science & Technology
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Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$18.95 Add to cartWhile politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term,… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Thompson, Paul B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190883235
- Language: English
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The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change: Second Edition
$30.00 Read moreEverybody can be a thinking person when it comes to climate change, and this book is a perfect roadmap. Start a web search for “climate change” and the first three suggestions are “facts,” “news,” and… [more below]
- Author: Henson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1944970398
- Language: English
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Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow
$44.93 Read moreThe Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy.
Winner of
- Author: Yunger Halpern, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1421443724
- Language: English
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
$19.00 Add to cartIf the conscious mind–the part you consider to be you–is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?
In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates- Author: Eagleman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0307389928
- Language: English
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Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future
$24.95 Read moreThere is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future.
“Act as though your house is on fire. Because it is.” Following Greta Thunberg, millions of young c- Author: Neubauer, Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1684581478
- Language: English
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Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales
$17.95 Read moreJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the unive
- Series: Princeton Science Library #142
- Author: Bonner, John Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254400
- Language: English
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring Live, one of America’s great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathers
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They d- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028780
- Language: English
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The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story
$14.00 Add to cartCommunicating his ideas in the form of a classical dialogue between a youth and a wise elder, cosmologist Brian Swimme crafts a fascinating exploration into the creativity suffusing the universe. His … [more below]
- Author: Swimme, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0939680149
- Language: English
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Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World
$24.95 Read more“Farmers like Charles and Perrine Herv?-Gruyer [are] beacons of light. Their work allows the rest of the world to see that there is another life, there is another way.”–Eliot Coleman
What began as a
- Author: Herv?-Gruyer, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1603586423
- Language: English
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Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
$55.00 Read moreDelve 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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The Secret Lives of the Elements
$24.99 Add to cart‘The perfect book to escape our human-sized existence and take a tour of the atomic world instead.’ Helen Arney, science comedian and broadcaster
When we think of the periodic table we picture orderly
- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1529412749
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Mississippi
$24.00 Add to cartIt�s a little-known fact, but Mississippi has a volcano. True, it�s buried under 2,600 feet of sediment, but it was red hot and active roughly 79 to 69 million years ago, and evidence of… [more below]
- Author: Galicki, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 087842671X
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of West Virginia
$26.00 Read moreWithin West Virginia’s irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sedimentary record of the entire Paleozoic Era. Continents collidin… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Lebold, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0878426833
- Language: English
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Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly Without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
$25.00 Read moreFor more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Log
- Author: Logsdon, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 05 2018
- ISBN10: 160358806X
- Language: English
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Profit: An Environmental History
$99.93 Add to cartProfit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems
- Series: Environmental History
- Author: Stoll, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1509533230
- Language: English
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Colorado Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Centennial State
$22.00 Add to cartThese 50 well-chosen sites–many on every geologist’s bucket list–span Colorado’s geologic history from 1.7-billion-year-old rocks of the Black Canyon to the constantly shifting landscape of the Grea… [more below]
- Author: Donahue, Magdalena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0878427058
- Language: English
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Queenspotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive; Includes 48 Queenspotting Challenges
$19.99 Read moreAt the heart of every bee hive is a queen bee. Since her well-being is linked to the well-being of the entire colony, the ability to find her among the residents of the hive is an essential beekeeping… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1635860377
- Language: English
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Geology Underfoot in Southern Idaho
$26.00 Add to cartSouthern Idaho is a geologic jackpot. Etched in its rugged mountains, incredibly young lava fields, and steep-walled canyons lie compelling evidence of amazing geologic events, including breccia from … [more below]
- Series: Geology Underfoot
- Author: Willsey, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0878426787
- Language: English
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build a Secret Agent Arsenal: Volume 2
$17.99 Add to cartIf you’re a budding spy, what better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 2 provides fully illustrated step-by-step… [more below]
- Series: Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Author: Austin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1569767165
- Language: English
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First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
$18.00 Read moreFirst Light opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our Universe’s history – the time when the first starts were born.
Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Unive- Author: Chapman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 147296294X
- Language: English
