Penguin Press HC, The, October 2009. Hardcover. In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet. In "Denialism, New Yorker" staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution..... More
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, January 1980. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Dustjacket is duststain with soiling, darkening at margins. Edgeworn with several tears along the top. Damp staining. Flap is not clipped. Red cloth with red & black cloth with gold lettering on spine and..... More
Crown, July 2021. Paper Back. "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance."--Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE -..... More
Delta, January 1992. First Trade. Trade Paperback. From the little blue baby with a heart murmur to those desperate patients who undergo heart transplants, In the Country of Hearts brings the world of medicine down to its all-too-human level and shows the two hearts that beat in all of us--the..... More
Pal.-Relativitycollapse, January 2004. Trade Paperback. More
Three Rivers Press, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame. At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in..... More
Custom House, July 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." --The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle--deserve to be..... More
Routledge, August 2014. First Trade. Trade Paperback. In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society. While readily acknowledging the astounding progress neuroscience has made in helping us understand how the brain..... More
Houghton Mifflin, March 1998. Hardcover. Taking the reader around the world, stopping in France to examine 30,000-year-old cave paintings, in Africa to see where our earliest ancestors left their bones, and in remote forests to spy on our closest relatives, the great apes, Tattersall keeps his focus on the big..... More
MIT Press, May 2005. Hardcover. How global biotechnology is redefining life itself. In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1995. Trade Paperback. Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores..... More
Viking Books, February 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Jacket wrapped in Brodart. More
Penguin Press, February 2023. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine. 3 rusted staples. Previous reader's name written in ink on verso. Soiled/torn half title page. [197 pages plus three list of Anchor titles.]. More
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, May 1970. Stapled Pamphlet. Quarto. {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'} Stapled (2-staples) 115 pages cardstock (grey & white) cover.Cover is mildly edgeworn with foxing/marginal darkening. Dust stain textblock edges. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2009. Hardcover. In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. Far from the sun, wonder Pluto has any fans. Yet during the mounting debate over rallied behind the extraterrestrial underdog. Disney created an irresistible pup by the same name, and..... More
Henry Holt & Company, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of..... More
Vintage, April 1995. Trade Paperback. By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Hardcover. From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social history, James Vincent dives into its..... More
Basic Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Basic Books, March 2023. Hardcover. The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1981. Trade Paperback. Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954. In Criticism, which begins with A Review of the Reviews by Gunther Stent, other scientists and..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 2001. Trade Paperback. The classic personal account of Watson and Crick's groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry..... More
Ecw Press, November 2009. Trade Paperback. Edison's Concrete Piano highlights the careers of famous inventors -- revealing the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and especially their big flops and great successes. Take Thomas Edison for example, who revolutionized our world with the light bulb..... More
Melville House, February 2023. Hardcover. A groundbreaking, witty, and eloquent exploration of slime that will leave you appreciating the nebulous and neglected sticky stuff that covers our world, inside and out. Slime. The very word seems to ooze oily menace, conjuring up a variety of unpleasant associations: mucous, toxins, reptiles..... More
