Science

25001 books

National Geographic Kids Little Kids First Board Book: Insects - Board Book

$8.99

by Ruth A. Musgrave (Author)Meet buzzing bumblebees, chirping crickets, and more awesome bugs that fly, hop, crawl, and creep in this colorful book for the very youngest explorers! Bursting with vivid photos, each spread in this sturdy book features a fascinating insect or spider, along with supersimple facts and lively, age-appropriate language to keep babies and toddlers--and their grown-ups--engaged. Designed to be the stepping-stone to the best-selling National Geographic Little Kids Firs...

The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here - Hardcover

$28.00

by Nicole Kobie (Author)We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart cities. And why not? Building a better world - be it a free-flying commute or an automated urban lifestyle - is a worthy dream. Given the pace of technological change, nothing seems impossible anymore. But why are these i...

Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free - Hardcover

$26.99

by Caroline Williams (Author)*Shortlisted for Sunday Times Book of the Year**A Greater Good Science Center Best Book of 2022*An eye-opening journey into the power of human movement and how we can harness it to optimize our brain health, boost our mood and improve every aspect of our livesFor our earliest ancestors who hunted and gathered, movement meant survival. Our brains evolved to reward physical activity. Moving, thinking and feeling have always been inextricably linked.Yet what happens ...

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic - Paperback

$17.99

by Emily Monosson (Author)Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here to stay. In Blight, Emily Monosson documents how trade, travel, and a changing climate are making us all more vulnerable to invasion. Populations of bats, frogs, and salamanders face extinction. In the Northwest, America's beloved nati...

$32.95

by Jacqui Greene Haas (Author)Discover the pure power and aesthetic beauty of dance as you perfect your technique with Dance Anatomy, Third Edition. With more than 100 anatomical illustrations in a vibrant new color palette, you will see how specific dance, movement, and performance exercises will help you maintain posture, find more flexibility, breathe appropriately, and reduce the risk of injury that is inherent in executing repetitive movements. Dance Anatomy is a must-have for every danc...

Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming - Paperback

$32.95

by Andreas Malm (Author)A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power--and contributed to the worsening climate crisis The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to a...

The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond - Hardcover

$34.00

by Wallace Arthur (Author)Are we alone in the universe, or are there other life forms 'out there'? This is one of the most scientifically and philosophically important questions that humanity can ask. Now, in the early 2020s, we are tantalizingly close to an answer. As this book shows, the answer will almost certainly be that life forms are to be found across the Milky Way and beyond. They will be thinly spread, to be sure. Yet the number of inhabited planets probably runs into the trillions....

At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies - Paperback

$22.00

by Dougald Hine (Author)"Hine's brilliant book demands we stare into [the] abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually going on in the climate crisis."--Brian Eno, musician "Maybe it's time to stop talking about climate change?" For two decades, the writer and social thinker Dougald Hine has been among the most influential voices in the environmental debate. Then one day, he heard these words come out of his mouth--and realized that he would have to explain himself. At ...

Kettlebell Strength Training Anatomy - Paperback

$27.95

by Michael Hartle (Author), Pavel Tsatsouline (Foreword by)Reap the benefits of kettlebell training with Kettlebell Strength Training Anatomy! Used increasingly for strength training over the last decade, kettlebells enable you to mimic real-life movements, making it an extremely functional form of exercise. Unlike a dumbbell or barbell, where the weight is evenly distributed on both ends of the handle, the kettlebell has an asymmetrical design and offset center of gravity. Compensating for t...

$28.00

by Marco Visscher (Author)From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power. Providing a vivid account of the characters and events that have shaped the world's most controversial energy source and our thinking around it, The Power of Nuclear weaves politics, culture and technology to explore nuclear power's past and f...

It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World - Hardcover

$28.99

by Mark Miodownik (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.Gases are all around us--they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm our atmosphere. Often invisible and sometimes odorless, these ubiquitous substances are also the least understood materials in our world, and always have been. It wasn't long ago that gases...

Skepticism's Pictures: Figuring Descartes's Natural Philosophy - Hardcover

$188.91

by Melissa Lo (Author)In seventeenth-century northern Europe, as the Aristotelian foundations of scientia were rocked by observation, experiment, confessional strife, and political pressure, natural philosophers came to rely on the printed image to fortify their epistemologies--and none more so than René Descartes. In Skepticism's Pictures, historian of science Melissa Lo chronicles the visual idioms that made, sustained, revised, and resisted Descartes's new philosophy.Drawing on moon maps, ...

The Weather of the Pacific Northwest - Paperback

$37.75

by Cliff Mass (Author)Powerful Pacific storms strike the region. Otherworldly lenticular clouds often cap Mount Rainier. Rain shadows create sunny skies while torrential rain falls a few miles away. The Pineapple Express brings tropical moisture and warmth during Northwest winters. The Pacific Northwest produces some of the most distinctive and variable weather in North America, which is described with colorful and evocative language in this book.Atmospheric scientist and blogger Cliff Mass, ...

$19.95

Report copyright infringementby Leo Grasset (Author), Kendra Boileau (Author), Grasset Colas (Artist)What is sex? Has it always existed? What purpose does it serve? Why are there penises and vaginas? These questions are at the very core of Dirty Biology, an erudite (and hilarious) graphic novel that aims to teach you everything you wanted to know about sexï 9;and then some."Sex" can mean a number of things. It can refer to sex organs, to sex types, to the act of copulation, or to the simple e...

The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick

$30.00

Report copyright infringementby Liz Kalaugher (Author)A healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases. When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits--rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; waterfowl and avian flu; or mosquitoes and Zika. But, in this urgent and engaging book, we see it often works the other way around--humans have caused diseases in other animals countless times, through travel and transport, the changes we impose ...

A Mysterious Universe: Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and Cosmology for Everyone - Hardcover

$61.54

by M. Suhail Zubairy (Author)A Mysterious Universe introduces the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, and cosmology to a novice in simple language. This concise book deals with deep issues related to the mysteries of modern physics. Both quantum mechanics and relativity are highly mathematical subjects and are not easily accessible. In 2020, the author wrote a book Quantum Mechanics for Beginners with the aim of introducing the fundamentals of quantum theory to someon...

$17.95

by Or Graur (Author)An eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies. In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies, Graur discusses the types of galaxies we observe and the physics that drive them; the myths and physical structure of the Milky Way; how galaxies were used to discover and study the mysterious phenomena of d...

$26.95

by Eric R. Kandel (Author)When 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 and biology. Eric R. Kandel traces the origins of this understanding to early twentieth-century Vienna, which gave rise to the concept of the "beholder's share," the realization that art is incomplete without the perceptual and emotional involvement of the viewer--that i...

Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

$16.95

by Judith S. Weis (Author)Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms--chemical, industrial, and agricultural-and the sources of pollution are endless. In recent history, we've seen oil spills, untreated sewage, eutrophication, invasive species, heavy metals, acidification, radioactive substances, marine litter, and overfishing, among other significant problems. Though marine pollution has long been a topic of concern, it has very recently exploded in environmental, economic, and political ...

Getting Started on Time-Resolved Molecular Spectroscopy - Hardcover

$123.12

by Jeffrey A. Cina (Author)This textbook provides an overview of the basics of ultrafast molecular spectroscopy starting from time-dependent quantum mechanical perturbation theory in Hilbert space. It emphasizes the dynamics of nuclear and electronic motion, initiated and monitored by femtosecond laser pulses, which underlie the generation of nonlinear optical signals and inform their interpretation. Topics include short-pulse electronic absorption, the molecular adiabatic approximation, tran...

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States - Paperback

$25.00

by Alex Wellerstein (Author)The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atom...

Physics of Spin-Orbit-Coupled Oxides - Hardcover

$171.00

by Gang Cao (Author), Lance DeLong (Author)This book is aimed at graduate students, post docs and senior researchers with preliminary expertise in materials physics or chemistry, and with an interest in the physical and chemical properties of 4d- and 5d transition metal oxides, especially ruthenates and iridates. The 4d- and 5d-transition metal oxides are among the most current and interesting quantum materials. This book reviews recent experimental and theoretical evidence that the physical ...

Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation - Paperback

$19.95

by Stephanie Haerdle (Author), Elisabeth Lauffer (Translator)The fascinating, little-known history of female sex fluids through the millennia. For over 2000 years, vulval sex fluids were understood to be a natural part of female pleasure, only to become disputed or categorically erased in the twentieth century. Today what do we really know about female ejaculation and squirting? What does the research show, and why are so many details unknown? In Juice, Stephanie Haerdle investigates the cult...

Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions - Hardcover

$16.00

by Alain Aspect (Author), David Kaiser (Foreword by), Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)A Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics' biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality. At the start of the twentieth century, the first quantum revolution upset our vision of the world. New physics offered surprising realities, such as wave-particle duality, and led to major inventions: the transistor, the laser, and today's compute...

Is Anyone Listening?: What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us - Hardcover

$28.00

by Denise L. Herzing (Author)From a leading researcher on dolphin communication, a deep dive into the many ways animal species communicate with their kin, their neighboring species, and us. If you could pose one question to a dolphin, what would it be? And what might a dolphin ask you? For forty years, researcher and author Denise L. Herzing has investigated these and related questions of marine mammal communication. With the assistance of a friendly community of Atlantic spotted dolphins i...

Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology - Paperback

$95.76

by Andrew M. Steane (Author)Following on from a previous volume on Special Relativity, Andrew Steane's second volume on General Relativity and Cosmology is aimed at advanced undergraduate or graduate students undertaking a physics course, and encourages them to expand their knowledge of Special Relativity. Beginning with a survey of the main ideas, the textbook goes on to give the methodological foundations to enable a working understanding of astronomy and gravitational waves (linearized app...

$104.31

by Susan D. Healy (Author)Why does brain size vary so widely among vertebrate animal species? What role has natural selection played in shaping the structure and function of the vertebrate brain? This accessible book unravels the myriad adaptive explanations that have built up over decades, providing both a review and a critique of the work that has sought to explain which natural selection pressures have led to changes in brain size. Debate over the causes of variation in brain size, especia...

No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World - Hardcover

$80.35

by Deborah Gordon (Author)In No Standard Oil, environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon examines the widely varying climate impacts of global oils and gases, and proposes solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in this sector while making sustainable progress in transitioning to a carbon-free energy future. The next decade will be decisive in the fight against climate change. It will be impossible to hold the planet to a 1.5o C temperature rise without controlling methane and CO2 emissions...

Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation - Paperback

$28.00

by Paul Hawken (Author)A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning ...

Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859 - Hardcover

$49.12

by Clive Gamble (Author)One afternoon in late April 1859 two geologically minded businessmen, John Evans and Joseph Prestwich, found and photographed the proof for great human antiquity. Their evidence -- small, hand-held stone tools found in the gravel quarries of the Somme among the bones of ancient animals -- shattered the timescale of Genesis and kicked open the door for a time revolution in human history. In the space of a calendar year, and at a furious pace, the relationship between hu...

Because Without Cause: Non-Casual Explanations in Science and Mathematics - Paperback

$99.18

by Marc Lange (Author)Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being proved hold. In this book, Marc Lange proposes philosophical accounts of many kinds of non-causal explanations in science and mathematics. These topics have been unjustly neglected in the philosophy of science and mathematics. One important kind of non-causal scientific explanation is termed ...

Idealization in Epistemology: A Modest Modeling Approach - Hardcover

$143.64

by Daniel Greco (Author)It's standard in epistemology to approach questions about knowledge and rational belief using idealized, simplified models. But while the practice of constructing idealized models in epistemology is old, metaepistemological reflection on that practice is not. Greco argues that the fact that epistemologists build idealized models isn't merely a metaepistemological observation that can leave first-order epistemological debates untouched. Rather, once we view epistemology...