Copernicus Books
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The Book of Numbers
$69.99 Add to cartJohn Horton Conway is a world famous professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and inventor of The Game of Life. Previous books include On Numbers and Games, and Sphere Packing, Lattices and G… [more below]
- Author: Conway, John H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: September 27 1996
- ISBN10: 038797993X
- Language: English
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The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels
$54.99 Add to cartForeword by Freeman Dyson; (1) Our Garden of Eden; (2) Life at the Borders; (3) The Deep-Earth Gas Theory; (4) Evidence for Deep-Earth Gas; (5) Resolviong the Petroleum Paradox; (6) The Siljan Experim… [more below]
- Author: Gold, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 06 1998
- ISBN10: 0387985468
- Language: English
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The Biosphere
$37.99 Add to cart“What Darwin did for life through time, Vernadsky did for life through space on a geological scale.” –Lynn Margulis This classic 1926 book is the first sustained expression of the idea, now widely ac… [more below]
- Author: Vernadsky, Vladimir I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 27 1998
- ISBN10: 038798268X
- Language: English
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
$49.99 Add to cartWhat determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? What conditions are necessary for the emergence of intelligence? This groundbreaking book is the first to synthesi… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Peter D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: December 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0387952896
- Language: English
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Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics
$49.99 Add to cartIn this cleverly conceived book, physicist Robert Gilmore makes complex concepts in quantum mechanics accessible. Alice lands in Quantum land–a whole new Wonderland, smaller than an atom, where each … [more below]
- Author: Gilmore, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 21 1995
- ISBN10: 0387914951
- Language: English
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Candy Bites: The Science of Sweets
$49.99 Add to cartThis delicious new book reveals the fascinating science behind some of our favorite candies. If you’ve ever wondered how candy corn is made or whether Baby Ruth bars really float, as in the movie Cadd
- Author: Hartel, Richard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 269
- Publish Date: March 29 2014
- ISBN10: 146149382X
- Language: English
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Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat
$39.99 Add to cartFood Bites is an easy-to-read, often humorous book on the scientific basis of the foods we eat, and answers those pesky, niggling questions such as: Is the quality of beer really affected by the type … [more below]
- Author: Hartel, Richard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 22 2013
- ISBN10: 1461475635
- Language: English
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The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels
$29.99 Add to cartNo other book comes even close to proposing that there is a huge mass of life living within the earth, that it is sustained in its sunless and airless subterranean environment by hydrocarbons, and tha… [more below]
- Author: Gold, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: May 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0387952535
- Language: English
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Physics in the Kitchen
$24.99 Add to cart- Series: Copernicus Books
- Author: Vekinis, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2023
- ISBN10: 303134409X
- Language: English
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The Machinery of Life
$37.99 Add to cartImagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we’re dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine (unfortunate… [more below]
- Author: Goodsell, David S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 167
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0387849246
- Language: English
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True Profit!: No Company Ever Went Broke Turning a Profit
$32.99 Add to cartReal profit after taxes is the most important management target. Profits are the cost of survival and the creators of new value. In this book, celebrated management thinker Hermann Simon brings clarit
- Author: Simon, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: July 18 2021
- ISBN10: 3030767019
- Language: English
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Physics in the Kitchen
$24.99 Add to cart- Series: Copernicus Books
- Author: Vekinis, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2023
- ISBN10: 3031344065
- Language: English
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Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
$37.99 Add to cartThe world’s foremost expert on pricing strategy shows how this mysterious process works and how to maximize value through pricing to company and customer.
In all walks of life, we constantly make decis
- Author: Simon, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 3319203991
- Language: English
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The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of Physical Immortality and Its Moral Defense
$32.99 Add to cartIs death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often foun… [more below]
- Series: Copernicus Books
- Author: Cordeiro, Jos?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 3031289269
- Language: English
