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  • Invention and Innovation

    A Brief History of Hype and Failure

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Tour the history of human invention—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts—in this history book from the New York Times-bestselling author of How the World Really Works.A BILL GATES RECOMMENDED BOOK: “Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception.”The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil, author of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Outer Limits of Reason

    What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us

    This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.“A must-read for anyone studying information science.” —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMany books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Kitchen as Laboratory

    Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking

    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table Perspectives on Culinary History
    "Provides good perspective on the scientific approach to cooking while reflecting the interests and passions of each essay's author."—Peter Barham, author of The Science of CookingIn this global collaboration of essays, chefs and scientists advance culinary knowledge by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical and chemical properties of food. Using traditional and cutting-edge tools, ingredients ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small

    The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspired."The passion van Vulpen feels for fundamental particle physics is clear—and his conversational style makes that enthusiasm contagious." —Jordy de Vries, University of Massachusetts, AmherstHow did physicists combine talent and technology to discover the Higgs boson, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

    A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

    By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new natural history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us[New Scientist; The Times UK]National Bestseller • Top 10 Nonfiction of the Year: Kirkus • Best Science Book of the Year: The Times UKWe humans are the inheritors of a dynasty ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A Young Innovator's Guide to STEM

    5 Steps To Problem Solving For Students, Educators, and Parents

    by Gitanjali Rao ...
    Our generation is growing up in a time where we’re seeing problems that have never existed before. Older tools and technique don’t necessarily work anymore to solve such issues. We need a different approach that builds on the latest developments in science and takes an alternate path to innovation. Now more than ever, it’s time to come together to make a difference in society. But how exactly do ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Catalyst

    RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets

    **Exploring the most transformative breakthroughs in biology since the discovery of the double helix, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist unveils the RNA age."Lively and entertaining.…Biology will never be the same." —Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street JournalAn Economist Best Book of the Year**For over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the “secret of life.” But over ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Lamarck's Revenge

    How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present

    by Peter Ward ...
    A riveting explanation of epigenetics, offering startling insights into our inheritable traits.In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 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

    $21.59 USD

  • The Light Eaters

    How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • TIME’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 • New York Magazine’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 • Smithsonian’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year • A Best Book of the Year: Boston Globe, Scientific American,New York Public Library, Chri... ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Broca's Brain

    Reflections on the Romance of Science

    by Carl Sagan ...
    A fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.“Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man’s march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent ... Read more

    $8.19 USD

  • Galileo Courtier

    The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism

    "This brilliantly original reexamination of Galileo" ( New Yorker ) is a cultural and social history revealing the relationship between patronage and science.In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. Science historian Mario Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Warfare between Science & Religion

    The Idea That Wouldn't Die

    A "very welcome volume" of essays questioning the presumption of irreconcilable conflict between science and religion ( British Journal for the History of Science).The "conflict thesis"—the idea that an inevitable, irreconcilable conflict exists between science and religion—has long been part of the popular imagination. The Warfare between Science and Religion assembles a group of distinguished ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Life's Edge

    The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021***A SCIENCE NEWS FAVORITE BOOK OF 2021***A SMITHSONIAN TOP TEN SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021“Stories that both dazzle and edify… This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times Book Review**We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Frankenstein's Cat

    Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts

    by Emily Anthes ...
    "A lively, engaging, and intensely researched overview of where animal science has gone in recent decades and where it might go." — The FuturistWinner of AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science BookLonglisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardFor centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like ti... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

    How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

    An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction."It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The God Effect

    Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon

    by Brian Clegg ...
    "A marvelously clear and engaging account of . . . the deepest mysteries of the quantum world and [converting] them into a useful technology." —Gregory Chaitin, author of Meta Math! The Quest for OmegaWhat is entanglement? It's a connection between quantum particles, the building blocks of the universe. Once two particles are entangled, a change to one of them is reflected—instantly—in the other, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 細胞之歌:探索醫學和新人類的未來

    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    「我們終歸要回到細胞」我們得要了解細胞,才能了解人體。我們需要它們,才能了解醫學。但最基本的是,我們需要細胞的故事,來講述生命和我們自己的故事。普立茲獎得主、《萬病之王》《基因》作者——辛達塔.穆克吉最新作品,本書是一部生命基石的歷史,交織了他擔任醫師的生涯。《細胞之歌》融合了尖端研究、無可挑剔的嚴謹學術、勇敢無畏的報導,和流暢優美的散文,形成百科全書式的研究,讀起來就如文學作品般扣人心弦。~《歐普拉日報》(Oprah Daily)◆ 2023年美國PROSE Awards生物與生命科學卓越獎◆ 2023年肖托誇獎◆《經濟學人》、《歐普拉日報》、紐約公共圖書館等評為《紐約時報》著名圖書和年度最佳書籍本書談的是細胞的故事,是發現包括人類在內,所有生物體都是由這些「基本粒子」構成的記述。這是關於這些自主的生命單位——組織、器官和器官系統合作,有條不紊地累積,能夠促成深奧形式的生理功能:免疫 ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

    The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development.” — Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear ThroneDeveloping video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • The Gulag Archipelago

    The Authorized Abridgement

    The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" —TimeThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Russian history, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."It is impossible to name a book that ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • 編劇,我想當個好人:《良善之地》、《荒唐分局》知名編劇,帶你經歷一場政治不一定正確的道德思辨之旅。

    How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

    Translated by 王啟安 ...
    Series series 亞當斯密
    亞馬遜、紐約時報、出版者週刊、今日美國報、華爾街日報席捲各大暢銷榜的現象級話題作品政治不正確版《正義:一場思辨之旅》看作者用最幽默寫意的敘述方式,帶領讀者看透人生中各種最難跨過的道德難題你很想用自己的方法對世界釋出善意,但世界毫不留情地打你的臉。而且,我們每天要做的事情已經夠多了,誰又有那個時間、金錢、精力去思考道德呢?  劇透!你可以用輕鬆詼諧的角度,來重新思考艱澀難懂的道德問題。  ✭你是不是永遠搞不清楚,在經典的「列車問題中」,你到底要直接把五個人撞死、拉起操縱桿故意殺掉另一個人,還是把強壯的唐恩推到軌道上,來救那五個人?  ✭身為披薩店老闆,你是否應該為了讓某人得到好處與更多的喜悅,而停止生產正常(好吃的)披薩,然後把時間全部拿來做夏威夷(違反自然定律的)披薩呢?  ✭是否有任何一個一體適用的理論,可以解釋何謂「好」人或「壞」人呢?  《良善之地》、《荒唐分局》知名編劇 ... Read more

    $10.21 USD

  • The Worst Hard Time

    The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • The Edge of Space-Time

    Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos“With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status as one of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World**In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD