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  • Pale Blue Dot

    A Vision of the Human Future in Space

    “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review)In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and ... Read more

    $63.49 HKD

  • 怪奇人體研究所:42個充滿問號的人體科學故事

    by SME ...
    Series series 知識叢書
    我們未被賦予翅膀和鰓於是,科學帶我們翱翔天際,深潛海底。繼《怪奇科學研究所》之後,42個不可思議卻又樂趣無窮的人體奇航。進化論+腦科學+人體學+心理學*聰明推薦10秒鐘教室│科普新銳插畫家佑來了生活科學頻道│YouTuber鄭永銘│「跟著鄭大師玩科學」部落客魏瑋志(澤爸)│親職教育講師★瘋狂的進化史★誰是你祖先?人類的眼睛究竟是進化還是退化?古人用跑死動物來拚輸贏?★怪誕的腦科學★沒有大腦可以活多少?究竟大腦有多愛撒謊?人類一天到晚都在腦補?★神祕的人體學★一夜白頭可能嗎?喪屍是怎麼活過來的?你還在相信味覺地圖嗎?<... ... Read more

    Was $55.49 HKD Now $47.06 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

    Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to the most absurd hypothetical questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can ... Read more

    $168.49 HKD

  • Cosmos

    by Carl Sagan ...
    Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s classic bestseller that “dives into the past, present, and future of science, dealing with the mind-staggering enormity of the cosmos in which we exist” (Associated Press)—with an Introduction by Ann Druyan and a Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson“Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—CosmopolitanTHE ... Read more

    Was $74.89 HKD Now $46.79 HKD

  • The Language Instinct

    How The Mind Creates Language

    by Steven Pinker ...
    "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book ReviewThe classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mindIn The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain ... Read more

    $99.69 HKD

  • The Gene

    The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.

    An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.From Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity – to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans – land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with ... Read more

    $129.69 HKD

  • The Demon-Haunted World

    Science as a Candle in the Dark

    by Carl Sagan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned astronomer and author of Cosmos comes a “powerful [and] stirring defense of informed rationality” (The Washington Post Book World) in a world where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • “Glorious . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to ... Read more

    $82.39 HKD

  • Dragons of Eden

    Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

    by Carl Sagan ...
    “A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York TimesDr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends—and their amazing links to recent discoveries.“How ... Read more

    $67.99 HKD

  • Apocalypse 2012

    A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End

    “Updated to include dramatic new evidence from NASA and the National Academy of Sciences pointing to a knockout of the electrical power grid by solar systems expected to climax in 2012-2013.”Don’t look up! It won’t help. You can’t get out of the way, you can’t dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it.So why read this book? Because you can’t look ... Read more

    $98.59 HKD

  • Seeing Further

    The Story of Science and the Royal Society

    by Bill Bryson ...
    “Bryson is as amusing as ever….As a celebration of 350 years of modern science, [Seeing Further]it is a worthy tribute.”—The EconomistIn Seeing Further, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson takes readers on a guided tour through the great discoveries, feuds, and personalities of modern science. Already a major bestseller in the UK, Seeing Further tells the fascinating story of science and the ... Read more

    $109.69 HKD

  • Reader, Come Home

    The Reading Brain in a Digital World

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how ... Read more

    $94.79 HKD

  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

    by Dan Levitt ...
    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Read more

    $109.69 HKD

  • Atlantic

    Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

    "Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean ... Read more

    $109.69 HKD

  • It Ain't Necessarily So... Bro

    Series Book 8 - New Moments in Science
    In the next book in Dr Karl's mega-selling science series, Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions about life, the universe and everything; questions such as Are virgin births possible? (they are) Will a black hole suck you in? (it won't) Is the most radioactive device in our homes the microwave? (it's not, it's the smoke detector)No-one conveys the excitement and wonder of ... Read more

    $99.59 HKD

  • Hölderlin war nicht verrückt

    Eine Streitschrift

    Hölderlin, so die sensationelle Summe dieser Streitschrift des Pharmakologen Reinhard Horowski, war nicht – wie Psychiater bis heute behaupten und Hölderlinphilologen transportieren – schizophren. Er wurde seinen Recherchen nach mit Kalomel überdosiert fehlmedikamentiert – und also vergiftet. Tatsächlich, es scheint, dass die Hölderlin-Geschichte auf den Spuren Pierre Bertaux' zu revidieren – und ... Read more

    $128.00 HKD

  • LES PRINCIPES DE LA PHILOSOPHIE

    by DESCARTES ...
    René Descartes, né le 31 mars 1596 à La Haye en France, et mort le 11 février 1650 à Stockholm, est un mathématicien, physicien et philosophe français.Il est considéré comme l’un des fondateurs de la philosophie moderne1. Il reste célèbre pour avoir exprimé dans son Discours de la méthode le cogiton 1 — « Je pense, donc je suis » — fondant ainsi le système des sciences sur le sujet connaissant ... Read more

    $9.13 HKD

  • KARL MARX: MISÈRE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE

    philosophie et économie

    Misère de la philosophie est une  réponse à la philosophie de la misère de M. Proudhon est une œuvre de Karl Marx parue en juin 1847 à Bruxelles en son exil. Son titre constitue une reprise inversée de l'ouvrage de Proudhon, Philosophie de la misère. Le texte est écrit en français bien que la plupart des œuvres de Marx soient écrites en allemand. Il s'agit d'une critique, reprenant point par point ... Read more

    $9.25 HKD

  • Sixth Grade Science Quizzes

    by Thomas Bell ...
    This workbook, with over 50 quiz questions, covers the following topics: The Scientific Process, Properties of Matter, The Human Body, Earth / Moon / Sun, Characteristics of Plants, Energy / Force / Motion, Electricity & Magnetism, Periodic Table, Photosynthesis, and Weather   If you are homeschooling (or if you are just trying to get extra practice for your child), then you already know that ... Read more

    $23.22 HKD

  • Electricity & Magnetism

    Sixth Grade Science Experiments

    by Thomas Bell ...
    If your child is struggling with science, then this book is for you; the short book covers the topic and also contains 5 science experiments to work with, and ten quiz questions.    This subject comes from the book “Sixth Grade Science (For Home School or Extra Practice)”; it more thoroughly covers more third grade topics to help your child get a better understanding of sixth grade math. If you .. ... Read more

    $23.22 HKD

  • Der Weimarer Reichstag

    Die schleichende Ausschaltung, Entmachtung und Zerstörung eines Parlaments

    Am 24. Juni 1920 trat der erste Reichstag der Weimarer Republik zusammen. Er spiegelte stets den Zustand des Staates wider: seine politische Zerrissenheit, seine Belastung durch den verlorenen Ersten Weltkrieg und nicht zuletzt die Feindseligkeit, die der Demokratie von links und rechts entgegenschlug. Welche Chancen und Risiken für den Parlamentarismus bestanden, wie er seit 1930 immer mehr an ... Read more

    $248.00 HKD

  • Elektrosmog - wie gefährlich ist die elektromagnetische Strahlung wirklich?

    In meinem eBook dreht sich alles um Elektrosmog - eine Thematik, welche in den letzten Jahren immer mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen hat. Ich biete euch eine umfassende Übersicht und zeige euch unter anderem die Auswirkungen von Elektrosmog auf die Gesundheit und was es bisher für Abschirmtechnologien gibt. Wir werden in verschiedenen Kapiteln alle relevanten Aspekte durchgehen und ich wünsche euch viel ... Read more

    $73.00 HKD