The Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook, Second Edition
American Society for Quality, March 2015. Hardcover. More
Science
The Gene: An Intimate History
Scribner, May 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have..... More
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
W. W. Norton, October 2006. Trade Paperback. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug..... More
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Oxford University Press, September 1983. Hardcover. Fourth printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy quarter cloth boards; Upper spine has been lightly bumped, ever so slightly dented; Mild staining present at outer edge text block (3-4 small dots); Text free of markings; Dust jacket un-worn, housed in protective mylar; An excellent copy..... More
Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner (History of American Science and Technology)
University Alabama Press, January 1988. Hardcover. A study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting Making Medical Doctors is not a conventional institutional history, but rather a study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting. Its general subject..... More
Creative Healers: A Collection of Essays and Poems from the Pharos, 1938-1998
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, January 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Solid red faux leather covered boards w/ immaculate gilt lettering at front and spine; Text free of markings; An exceptional copy. More
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong..... More
Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
Weldon Owen, October 2018. Hardcover. A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be! Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a...... More
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Scribner, October 2022. Hardcover. Named a New York Times Notable Book of 2022 and a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene..... More
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
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
Woman: An Intimate Geograpy
Houghton Mifflin. Trade Paperback. More
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Harper, January 2023. Hardcover. 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..... More
The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1954. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Previous reader's name written in red ballpoint on half title page. Several pages of underlining within the prefaces, also in red ink. 'Reprinted with arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company.' Moderate shelf wear.[199 pages plus one page list of..... More
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Scribner, September 2022. Hardcover. *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* *A 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic destruction means for..... More
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
Mariner Books, June 2020. Paper Back. "No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this underappreciated group its due." -- Elizabeth Kolbert Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none..... More
An Approach to Modern Physics by E Andrade Doubleday anchor book A111
Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Reprinted by arrangement with G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., London. Mild shelf wear and slightly darkened spine. [266 pages plus four page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
University of Chicago Press, February 2016. Paper Back. If offered the chance--by cloak, spell, or superpower--to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem..... More
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
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
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Riverhead Books, May 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR "A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long, long..... More
Sandman Slim
Harper Voyager, July 2012. Trade Paperback. "An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece." --William Gibson "A sharp-edged urban fantasy, drenched in blood and cynicism, tipping its hat to Sam Peckinpah, Raymond Chandler, and the anti-heroes of Hong Kong cinema....A bravura performance." --San Francisco Chronicle "I couldn't put it down." --Charlaine..... More
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Avery, September 2022. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In this revolutionary book, renowned..... More
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their longitude, sailors were literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Ships ran aground on rocky shores; those..... More
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2022. Hardcover. Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something..... More
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong..... More
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage)
Vintage, March 2010. Trade Paperback. The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in..... More
