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Discover a range of science books, including fiction novels about science, intriguing science facts, and essential physics books. Explore the best sci-fi books and top-selling science titles
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Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and MeaningMeeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world...
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Echoes of Our Origins: Baboons, Humans, and NatureThe amazing chronicle of a primate scientist's fifty-year journey studying baboons--and what her findings can tell us about primates, resilience, and human coexistence.In 1972, renowned anthropologist Shirley C. Strum traveled to Kenya to study the origins of human aggression through observing baboons. What Dr....
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The Human Brain Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function, and DisordersThe Human Brain Book is a complete guide to the one organ in the body that makes each of us what we are - unique individuals. It combines the latest findings from the field of neuroscience with expert text and state-of-the-art illustrations and imaging...
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The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Communicating with Ros Atkins'**'A great read for polishing your communication skills' FORBES'For all those who want their audiences to...
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the GeneAuthor: Richard DawkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 11/01/2016Pages: 440Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.40dISBN: 9780198788911
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The California Naturalist Handbook, Second EditionThe go-to guide to California's natural history, now updated with fresh insights on stewardship for a changing climate and diverse naturalist perspectives.The California Naturalist Handbook offers a fun, science-based introduction to California's natural history, emphasizing observation, discovery, communication, and stewardship. This accessible guidebook explores...
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50 Things to See with a Small Telescope (Southern Hemisphere Edition)A special edition for aspiring astronomers living south of the equator. This special edition of 50 Things to See with a Small Telescope explores the planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae observed from all over the southern hemisphere. Not only does this book demonstrate how...
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Goats in America: A Cultural HistoryThe humble goat has played a surprising and important role throughout the history of the United States. Despite this, goats are often overlooked by many Americans, even if they have strong opinions about these complex creatures. In Goats in America Tami Parr calls attention...
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Rising Waters: Reports from Across a Rapidly Warming WorldFrom the historic streets of Charleston, where flooding tides now rise with alarming frequency, Pulitzer Prize finalist Tony Bartelme takes readers deep into the heart of the climate crisis. With the eye of an investigative reporter and the soul of a storyteller, Bartelme makes...
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Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's HeartlandTo know a place deeply means to understand it on several levels, layered almost as if from bedrock to topsoil. Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland takes readers on a journey across all twelve Midwest states to natural settings that...
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Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex LifeThe Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The...
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the MoonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers. "Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail...
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Niagara Falls: Survivor of the Ice Age: The Natural History of the Niagara River and its GorgeThe Natural History of the Niagara River and its GorgeAuthor: Paul a. YoungPublisher: Rock / Paper / Safety ScissorsPublished: 01/04/2017Pages: 62Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.31dISBN: 9780997799675
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Night Sky Guide 2026: North America's Skies Month by Month from the Royal Astronomical Society of CanadaAuthor: Nicole MortillaroPublisher: Firefly BooksPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.22h x 6.04w x 0.39dISBN: 9780228105862About the Author Nicole Mortillaro is an avid amateur astronomer, author, editor, Senior Science Reporter for CBC News and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society...
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great ConnectorsWINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING "Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture." --Science Friday The author...
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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and HistoryFirst published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a...
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The Pocket Cloud Book Updated Edition: How to Understand the Skies in Association with the Met OfficeLearn how to understand the skies with this comprehensive pocket guide to cloudspotting. Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variability providing food for thought for scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds may have many individual shapes, but...
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the VoidSpace is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up?...
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Apollo Mission Control: The Making of a National Historic LandmarkAuthor: Manfred Dutch Von EhrenfriedPublisher: SpringerPublished: 07/04/2018Pages: 285Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.48h x 6.70w x 0.61dISBN: 9783319766836Review Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2019About the AuthorDutch Von Ehrenfried has worked in both the spaceflight and aviation fields for about 25 years. He was a NASA Flight Controller in...
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A Traveler's Guide to the StarsA brief guide to the real science of interstellar travel With known exoplanets now numbering in the thousands and initiatives like 100 Year Starship and Breakthrough Starshot advancing the idea of interstellar travel, the age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps...
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