Life Sciences
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Norwegian Method: The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance
$21.95 Add to cartFind out how a sparsely-populated country came to dominate the world of endurance sports and get a blueprint for high performance.
Norway has long stacked the field with champions in sports like Nord- Author: Culp, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989256969
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive
$28.95 Add to cartWeaving together cutting-edge science and the contemplative insights that arise from mystical experience, Dr. James Cooke radically redraws our understanding of consciousness and what it truly means t
- Author: Cooke, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1633889920
- Language: English
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Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload
$34.95 Add to cartAn award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.
The human brain hasn’t changed much since the Stone Age, let alone in the mere thirty years of- Author: Cytowic, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049007
- Language: English
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The Owl Handbook: Investigating the Lives, Habits, and Importance of These Enigmatic Birds
$24.99 Add to cartCharismatic, intriguing, and misunderstood: The Owl Handbook provides a beautifully photographed, thoughtfully researched, and accessible guide to these complex, captivating creatures.
Spot an owl th- Author: Shewey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1643262270
- Language: English
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Foraging: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Foraging Wild Edible Plants and Medicinal Herbs
$22.99 Add to cartHave you ever wanted to forage but have no idea how to do it safely and responsibly?
This book is the ultimate guide for both beginner and advanced foragers alike to working with most common plants fou
- Author: Hunt, Jonathan S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1646949897
- Language: English
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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
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The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist’s Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
$30.00 Add to cartOne of Scientific American‘s Best Books of 2024
One of the world’s leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity’s most profound questi- Author: Cabrol, Nathalie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1668046687
- Language: English
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Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
$30.00 Add to cart“Animal communication doesn’t need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades… [more below]
- Author: Kershenbaum, Arik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593654935
- Language: English
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Lichenpedia: A Brief Compendium
$18.95 Add to cartAn illustrated mini-encyclopedia about the weird and wonderful world of lichens
Lichenpedia is a delightfully entertaining and beautifully illustrated A-Z treasury about the strange, obscure, and rema- Series: Pedia Books #11
- Author: Hurley, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239908
- Language: English
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
$36.00 Add to cartA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today
The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ance- Author: Mithen, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605381
- Language: English
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Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?: An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science
$27.99 Add to cartPlasma physicist Ian Hutchinson has been asked hundreds of questions about faith and science. Is God’s existence a scientific question? Is the Bible consistent with the modern scientific understanding
- Series: Veritas Books
- Author: Hutchinson, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 083084547X
- Language: English
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The Hidden Zoo Inside You: An illustrated guide to pesky organisms and pandemics
$49.95 Add to cartA primer about hundreds of infections, The Hidden Zoo Inside You provides the foundations of infectious disease required to understand pandemics through the use of humor, drawings, and even doodles. T
- Series: The Hidden Zoo Inside You #1
- Author: Jones, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1989467660
- Language: English
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
$20.00 Add to cartA concise, elegant, and thought-provoking exploration of the mystery of consciousness and the functioning of the brain.
Despite decades of research, remarkable imagery, and insights from a range of sc- Author: House, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250151198
- Language: English
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Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
$30.00 Add to cartNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN
“Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus “By turns phi- Author: Clancy, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593538188
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean’s Most Fearsome Predators
$35.00 Add to cartFrom ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites, this book tells the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as Earth’s ultimate survivors, by world-leading paleontologist John Long.
“Will keep- Author: Long, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0593598075
- Language: English
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Heart: An Owner’s Guide: The Irish Times Number 1 Bestseller
$19.99 Add to cartBecome body literate with Heart: An Owner’s Guide, the next book in The Body Literacy Library, a helpful series that will break down heart health for a new generation of readers.
Heart: An Owner’s Gui- Series: The Body Literacy Library
- Author: Barrett, Paddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0744092426
- Language: English
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Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey Into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
$32.00 Add to cartAn award-winning science writer discovers she has prosopagnosia (face blindness) and aphantasia (the inability to visualize) and investigates the neuroscience of sight, memory, and imagination–while … [more below]
- Author: Dingfelder, Sadie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0316545147
- Language: English
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The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network
$29.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, showing us the steps we can take to build better relationships and improve our lives.
Social connection- Author: Robson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366482
- Language: English
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On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach
$29.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening account on what we get wrong about sex and gender and a “formidable challenge to our politics, on both the right and the left…informed by science, law, and personal experience” (Guy-U… [more below]
- Author: Lambelet Coleman, Doriane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1668023105
- Language: English
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Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
$32.00 Add to cartA sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies
It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other thi- Author: Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691238774
- Language: English
