Science
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Opening Heaven’s Door: What the Dying Are Trying to Say about Where They’re Going
$17.00 Add to cartThe first book by a respected journalist on Nearing Death Awareness–similar to Near-Death Experience–this “fascinating” (Kirkus Reviews) exploration brings “humor, sympathy, and keen critical intell… [more below]
- Author: Pearson, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1476757070
- Language: English
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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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summer of gravel and steel: a thru-hike of Alaska, 20 years after the first
$25.00 Add to cartThru-hikers in America have some nice options for summer-long walks where they don’t have to bushwhack or stress about navigating. The Appalachian and Pacific Crest trails allow that type of passage.
- Author: Rozell, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1733948244
- 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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Physics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science (100 Ponderables) Revised and Updated
$24.95 Read moreREVISED AND UPDATED EDITION
Here is the latest edition of this essential guide to physics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the foundations upon which all scientific knowle- Series: 100 Ponderables
- Author: Jackson, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1627951970
- 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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The Barber, the Astronaut, and the Golf Ball
$22.95 Read moreIn 1971, famed astronaut Alan Shepard returned from the moon and went to get a haircut. Before settling into the barber’s chair in Webster, Texas, near NASA’s Mission Control, Shepard gave his longtim… [more below]
- Author: Radnofsky, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989120345
- 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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Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru
$29.95 Add to cartA prolific poet as a child, Barbara Drake-Vera loved writing almost as much as she adored her father, a moody postal employee with an elaborate comb-over and a fondness for Mahler. But when her succes
- Author: Drake-Vera, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807181528
- Language: English
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The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, Revised Edition
$21.00 Add to cartAward-winning nature author Jerry Dennis reveals the splendor and beauty of North America’s Great Lakes in this “masterwork”* history and memoir of the essential environmental and economical region sh
- Author: Dennis, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1250325889
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
$30.00 Add to cartA witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.
In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Sov- Author: Strausbaugh, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703340
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature
$30.00 Add to cartNature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.
While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene–an era many d
- Author: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1503637328
- 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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Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
$28.00 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION
Investigating the ethical and practical challenges of one of the greatest threats to biodiversity: invasive species. Across the world, i- Author: Warwick, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1399403745
- 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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When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals about Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
$27.99 Add to cartIn 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world’s first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece o
- Author: Bierman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324020679
- Language: English
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The Geek Dad’s Guide to Weekend Fun: Cool Hacks, Cutting-Edge Games, and More Awesome Projects for the Whole Family
$27.00 Add to cartThe wildly popular DIY dad follows up his instant New York Times bestseller with a fresh batch of geeky weekend science projects for the whole family to enjoy.
Ken Denmead struck a chord with parent- Author: Denmead, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1592406440
- Language: English
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
$16.00 Add to cart“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hop… [more below]
- Author: Owen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0735216096
- Language: English
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How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
$18.99 Add to cartFrom facial recognition–capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents–to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves
- Author: Wiggins, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074582
- Language: English
