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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Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical DictionaryThis illuminating reference book is a complete guide to medicinal plants used by hundreds of Native American tribes. Let anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman be your guide as he describes the various uses of more than 2,700 plants. Information--adapted from the same research used to...
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National Geographic Kids Science Encyclopedia: Atom Smashing, Food Chemistry, Animals, Space, and More!Food chemistry, atom crashing, wave power, food chemistry, and robots! These are just a few of the topics covered in this fantastic new science encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of physical and life sciences from A to Z. Super smart and kid-friendly, it's...
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National Audubon Society Wildflowers of North America: The Complete Identification Reference to Wildflowers--With Full-Color Photographs; Updated RangThe most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the wildflowers of North America, updated for the first time in decades to reflect the impact of climate change and the advancements in DNA studies that have radically altered the classification process. Whether preparing for a scenic...
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Mushrooms: An Illustrated Field GuideA beautifully illustrated pocket-size hardcover guide to the mushrooms of North America--a must-have for any mushroom enthusiast's backpack or home library. Mushrooms: An Illustrated Field Guide is a compact, beautifully illustrated field guide to 50 North America's most popular mushrooms. Inside this elegant hardcover,...
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Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science Behind Your Favorite MonstersBursting with blood, guts, history, and science, this book is a must-have for monster lovers of all ages Could Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body? Why should vampires drink from veins and not arteries? What body parts are best for zombies to eat?...
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I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows HumorAn existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5 C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with...
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It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished: A Memoir of My BodyA raw, beautiful memoir of a girl born missing an ear, a medical system insistent on saving her from herself, and our culture's desire to "fix" bodies. When Kate Gies was four years old, a plastic surgeon pressed a synthetic ear to the right...
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and ReligionWhen the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the "first" ichthyosaur,...
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything BetterA neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brain, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide--a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing...
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Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume IIn four volumes, Foundational Papers in Complexity Science maps the development of complex-systems science through eighty-eight revolutionary works published across the twentieth century.Volume I spans the turbulent years from 1922 to 1962. Across several decades of war, runaway technological invention, and economic upheaval, complexity...
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For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production SystemsLearn a roadmap to healthy soil and revitalised food systems for powerfully address these times of challenge. This book equips producers with knowledge, skills and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits. Learn how to: - Triage soil health and act to...
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Escaping from Eden: Does Genesis Teach That the Human Race Was Created by God or Engineered by Ets?'This generation's 'Chariots of the Gods'', George Noory, Coast to Coast AM The familiar stories of the book of Genesis affirm that God made the universe, planet earth, and you and me. However, various anomalies in the text clue us that we are not...
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Elephants on AcidAlex Boese reveals to readers the results of scores of outrageous, amusing, and provocative experiments found in the files of modern science.When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen at the Lincoln Park Zoo on the morning of August 3, 1962, little did he...
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Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics"The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Gary Zukav's timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction...
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Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs and Their UsesFrom Artichoke to Rhubarb- Vine to Hawthorn- The Complete Herbal provides the most comprehensive listings of herbs and their uses in existence. First published over 350 years ago by herbalist and apothecary Nicholas Culpeper, this encyclopedic guide had an extensive impact on modern holistic...
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Compact World AtlasBeautifully designed maps, flags and country profile data make this atlas an ideal source of information about our ever changing world.If you're interested in finding out more about the geography of the world we live in, then this world atlas book is perfect for...
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Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable MushroomsA magical, deeply informed book that takes us from familiar places into the strange world of fungi. The secret world of fungi is another kingdom. They do things differently there. Diverse beyond our wildest imaginations, fungi don't obey rules. They pop up unbidden and...
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Chasing Wildflowers: An Adventurous Guide to Finding Minnesota's Native Flowers in Their Unique HabitatsAn intrepid search for Minnesota's wildflower treasures in out-of-the-way places Beyond Minnesota's sunlit prairies and lush north woods, wonders of wildflowers bloom, gracing fens and forested swamps, sand dunes and the rocky North Shore, even ditches and abandoned mine dumps. Venturing farther afield than...
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Cathedral, Forge and WaterwheelFrom bestselling historians Joseph and Frances Gies, whose books have been used by George R.R. Martin as source material for Game of Thrones, comes a classic book on innovation and technological change in medieval EuropeIn this account of Europe's rise to world leadership in...
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Carbon Chemistry student textThis is the student text section of the curriculum book Carbon Chemistry by the same author. The text has nine chapters covering these topics: structure of carbon atoms, hydrocarbons, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, functional groups, polymers, plastics, soap, rubber, nylon, carbon dioxide and monoxide, limestone,...
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