Science
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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Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern AcademyThis volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These scholarly societies, founded before...
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Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global CrisisThrough extensive research and reporting, this boundary-crossing and highly readable survey of efforts to tackle climate change aims to replace our paralyzing fears with a restored sense of hope and determination. Climate change is a problem so enormous and complex--with threats so frightening in...
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Climate Change: The Facts 2025Dr Marohasy and co-editor Dr John Abbot have assembled scientists and researchers from across the globe whose conclusions challenge prevailing narratives surrounding climate change. This book explores the natural variability of the Earth's climate, and the impact humanity has upon it. Some, but not...
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Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin AmericaChanges in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book's eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field,...
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Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin AmericaChanges in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book's eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field,...
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Becoming Timefaring: Time Travel & the Human FutureTime travel is the most exciting technological development looming in our future. It is also the most misunderstood. Alleged paradoxes as well as strong cultural taboos have kept the subject mostly outside the realm of serious thinking and theorizing, and science-fiction writers have peddled...
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Arctic Passages: Ice, Exploration, and the Battle for Power at the Top of the WorldAlmost two centuries after British explorer Sir John Franklin and his men died amid paralyzing cold and ice in pursuit of the mythical Northwest Passage, the Arctic--in response to temperatures greater than at any time in the last ten thousand years--is melting at an...
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America's Military Biomedical Complex: Law, Ethics, and the Drive for Scientific InnovationWar is an engine of innovation. It has motivated extraordinary achievements in medicine and science, many of which have generated benefits far beyond the battlefield. These advancements, however, have come at great cost. Countless individuals have been exposed to hazardous research, often without their...
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Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science FactWith a stellar cast of scientists and science fictionists alike, a vivid exploration of realities behind imaginary planets. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a double sunset on Tatooine, stand among the sand dunes of Arrakis, or gaze at...
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All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential KnowledgeFor the bestselling miscellany market, an NPR librarian's compendium of fascinating facts on history, science, and the artsHow much water do the Great Lakes contain? Who were the first and last men killed in the Civil War? How long is a New York minute?...
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Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American WestA herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly retired, their son in college, they embark upon a great American...
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A First Introduction to Quantum Computing and InformationThis textbook addresses and introduces new developments in the field of quantum information and computing (QIC) for a primary audience of undergraduate students. Developments over the past few decades have spurred the need for QIC courseware at major research institutions. To address this, the...
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Advances in Ecological Research - Part 2: Volume 71Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 71 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.Author: Alex DumbrellPublisher: Academic PressPublished: 11/28/2024Pages: 206Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.31h x 6.35w x 0.64dISBN: 9780443297342
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A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It and How to Get ItAuthor: Mike Berners-LeePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/10/2025Pages: 386Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 7.78h x 5.16w x 0.91dISBN: 9781009440066
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100 Years of Planetaria: 100 Stories of People, Places, and DevicesThis book marks the centenary of the remarkable invention of an opto-mechanical planetarium projector, the Zeiss Mk I. In May 1925, the first public planetarium opened at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In the ensuing decades, this invention spread all over the world, becoming...
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Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's HealthOffers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at much higher rates than their white counterparts. The vast majority of these health disparities are not attributed to behavioral differences...
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Wild AnimalsIllustrated with more than 250 outstanding photographs, Wild Animals presents an in-depth look at the natural world's most deadly, endangered or just plain strange creatures, from poisonous spiders to aggressive caimans and man-eating sharks. The selection spans a broad spectrum of wildlife, from large...
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TunguskaAuthor: Andy BrunoPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 324Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73dISBN: 9781108744393
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The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals CommunicateSongs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by sound What is the meaning of a bird's song, a baboon's bark, an owl's hoot, or a dolphin's clicks? In The Voices of Nature, Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries...
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The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by AtomRunner-up, 2024 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed--give or take a few billion. And there's hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.9999999999 percent empty...
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