The Edges of Science: Crossing the Boundary from Physics to Metaphysics
Fourth Estate, January 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Science
Ciphers For Solvers
No publisher listed, 1954. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2') Darkened at spine. Tanned margins of cover. No markings within. No underlining. 30 pages. More
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Riverhead Books, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An NPR Best Book of 2022 "The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply researched, and great fun. . . . Science isn't easy, but..... More
Secret Writing: An Introduction to Cryptograms, Ciphers, and Codes
Dover Publisher, January 1974. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound, with unfortunate mildew odor. [117 pages plus thirteen page catalogue of Dover Books]. 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
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
Medicine's Michelangelo: The Life & Art of Frank H. Netter, MD
Quinnipiac University Press, September 2013. Hardcover. Medicine's Michelangelo is a remarkable and first major biography of Frank H. Netter, MD, written by his daughter, Francine Mary Netter. She captures the character of the man and tells his life story using not only her remembrances but also Frank Netter's own autobiographical..... More
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2022. Paper Back. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of ordinary womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her..... More
Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us about the World of Tomorrow
Grand Central Publishing, September 2023. Paper Back. From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to..... More
Puzzles and Paradoxes
Oxford, January 1965. Cloth. Octavo in heavily chipped/torn & tattered dustjacket. Front DJ flap is not clipped. Heavy stains & foxing on jacket front & verso. Pale blue cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Spine is sun bleached, as well as sunned edges of boards. Textblock top edge..... More
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2022. Paper Back. Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish--with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings..... More
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
Penguin Press, July 2023. Hardcover. From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science "[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist." --Carlo Rovelli With In a Flight of Starlings, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work..... More
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDS
Flatiron Publishing, February 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her own shame-free living to take the stigma out of these infections. --The New York Times With curiosity and wit, Strange Bedfellows rips back the bedsheets to..... More
Staff Pick
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology
University of California Press, April 1990. Paper Back. The first U.S. nominee for the Nobel Prize, Jacques Loeb was trained in experimental physiology in Germany, joined the biology faculty of the new University of Chicago in 1892, later taught at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to..... More
Shadows of the Mind
Oxford University Press, USA, October 1994. Cloth. A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific..... More
Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability
MIT Press, February 2004. Trade Paperback. The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics. In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this book Peter Pesic shows..... More
The Road Taken
Bloomsbury USA, February 2017. Trade Paperback. A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the..... More
Hobby Cryptography: Eighty Three Classical Ciphers Classified & Updated (VERSION 081197)
Clayton C Pierce, April 1997. Soft Cover. Quarto {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black binder and back cover of flexible cardstock with shiny textured outside and verso is plain black cardstock surface. The numeration of this version of Hobby Cryptography is even stranger than that..... More
Hobby Cryptography: Eighty-Seven Classical Ciphers Classified & Updated (version 981023)
Clayton C Pierce, 1998. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black wrap around cardstock (shiny & textured on outside and plain black on verso. (Report cover / perfect bound) xxii pages of introductory material, supplementory articles & index on dull yellow stock at..... More
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Riverhead Books, January 2018. Hardcover. The instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller Instant Washington Post Bestseller Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice. --The Wall Street Journal Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks..... More
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Penguin Press, July 2021. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in..... More
Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Bold Type Books, March 2021. Hardcover. From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos--and a call for a more liberatory practice of science. Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology Winner of the 2022 Phi Beta..... More
Leaving Science: Occupational Exit from Scientific Careers Between 1965 and 1995
Russell Sage Foundation, April 2004. Hardcover. The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science and an equally dramatic increase in the number of professionals leaving scientific careers. Leaving Science provides the first significant examination of this worrisome new..... More
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Paper Back. In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on..... More
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Harper Perennial, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now. Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable and altogether..... More
