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  • Seaweeds of the Southeastern United States

    Cape Hatteras to Cape Canaveral

    Seaweeds of the Southeastern United States offers a definitive manual for the identification of the seaweeds that inhabit the deep offshore waters as well as the near shoreline and shallow sounds from North Carolina to Florida. The volume provides a natural key to the class, order, family, and genera with detailed descriptions, 560 illustrations, and an artificial key listing simple ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Mortuary Science

    A Sourcebook

    by John F. Szabo ...
    Now available in paperback! In this first reference book devoted entirely to mortuary science, Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects, including even the most specialized area in the field. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints. Areas covered include autopsy, cremation, burial rites and ceremonies, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Climbing Mount Improbable

    A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject—in writing that the New ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Guide to Writing in the Sciences

    Series series Heritage
    While teaching writing to undergraduate science students, Gilpin and Patchet-Golubev discovered that although many relatively sophisticated manuals for scientific writing exist, most are aimed at mainly professionals or specialists and are of little practical use to the majority of students. This introductory guide fills that large gap.Direct and friendly in tone the book provides clear and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience

    "[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit."—Entertainment WeeklyMartin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhaustible appetite for ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Reality 101

    (Facts That Can Change Your Life)

    Reality 101 takes you on a young man's trip into adulthood while he struggles to incorporate his fundamentalist indoctrination into an understanding of science's discoveries and teaching. His failure to get things to add up, his insistence that they must, and discoveries made while learning about computers take him to a fascinating view of reality and the human way of understanding it. Reality 101 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion To The History Of Modern Science

    Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science

    Edited by John L. Heilbron ...
    Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Genetic Damage

    This dictionary is the first dictionary of genetic damage to be published. A Dictionary of Genetic Damage is provided for spelling reference, categorization reference, and information on the enormity of the genetic catastrophe. Note that A Dictionary of Genetic Damage also exists as an appendix to Genetic Catastrophe! Sneaking Doomsday? by the same author. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Handy Geology Answer Book

    Series series The Handy Answer Book Series
    Answers hundreds of questions on the most interesting of topics—planet Earth!It’s right under our feet every day—Earth and all its glorious components. From fossils, rocks, and minerals to caves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, The Handy Geology Answer Book traces the formation of the universe and the planet, investigating the layers of the planet and explaining the formation of mountains and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

    The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

    by Jeff Prucher ...
    The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction, Brave New Words:The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction shows exactly how science-fictional words and their associated concepts have developed over time, with full citations and bibliographic information. It's a window on a whole genre of literature through the words invented and passed along by the genre's most talented writers. In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Canon

    A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

    The New York Times bestseller that makes scientific subjects both understandable and fun: “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm.” —Richard DawkinsFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times science journalist and bestselling author of Woman, this is a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us (and inside us)—from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, and more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scientific Companion, 2nd ed.

    Exploring the Physical World with Facts, Figures, and Formulas

    Series series Wiley Popular Scienc
    ". . . infuses into the reader the conviction that science is exciting and can be understood by everyone." --American ScientistThis new edition of the critically acclaimed Scientific Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the physical sciences: physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, meteorology, biology, atmospheric science, and oceanography. Emiliani traces the evolution of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sneaky Book for Boys: How to perform sneaky magic tricks, escape a grasp, craft a compass, and more

    How to perform sneaky magic tricks, escape a grasp, craft a compass, and more

    by Cy Tymony ...
    Series Book 4 - Sneaky Books
    Thank you, Cy . . . for opening up the world of tinkering and creativity to a whole new generation . . . looking to get their hands dirty with new and exciting projects. --NPR's Ira Flatow, host of Science FridayIt's The Dangerous Book for Boys meets Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook via The Boy Scouts of America Handbook--with lots of other cool sneaky boy stuff mixed in.Cy Tymony's Sneaky ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Scientific American Science Desk Reference

    Series series Scientific American
    Who names newly discovered planets? What exactly are black holes? Where are there the most earthquakes? When did the first Homo sapiens walk the earth? Why is the night sky dark? How does the fluoride in toothpaste prevent cavities? Since 1845, Scientific American has answered questions and provided the best information available in all areas of science. Now, Scientific American is proud to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scientific American's Ask the Experts

    Answers to The Most Puzzling and Mind-Blowing Science Questions

    Why is the night sky dark? How do dolphins sleep without drowning? Why do hangovers occur? Will time travel ever be a reality? What makes a knuckleball appear to flutter? Why are craters always round?There's only one source to turn to for the answers to the most puzzling and thought-provoking questions about the world of science: Scientific American. Writing in a fun and accessible style, an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Geek Atlas

    128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive

    The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Princeton Guide to Ecology

    The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited by eminent ecologist Simon Levin, with contributions from an international team of leading ecologists, the book contains more than ninety clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics within seven major areas: autecology, population ecology, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

    Learn the origins of over 2,000 mammal species names with this informative reference guide.Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to Geoffroy's cat? This unique reference provides a brief look at the real lives behind the scientific and vernacular mammal names one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biology

    a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

    Best-selling guide for over 25 years and an essential companion for students taking biology courses of any level, this six page guide is a must-have for reference throughout science courses as a serious study tool and quick refresher for the core concepts, terms, diagrams, cycles and stages in the study of life. Author, scientist, and university biology professor Randy Brooks, PhD has streamlined ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Chemistry

    a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

    Best-selling guide for over 20 years and an essential companion for students taking chemistry courses of any level, this laminated six page guide is a must-have for reference throughout science courses as a serious study tool and quick refresher for the core concepts, terms, equations and periodic elements. Author and Harvard PhD, Mark D. Jackson, a scientist and university chemistry professor ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Trying Leviathan

    The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

    In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Science Fiction Prototyping

    Designing the Future with Science Fiction

    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science
    Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do more than that? What if we could use science fiction based on science fact to not only imagine our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pasteur's Quadrant

    Basic Science and Technological Innovation

    Over fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush released his enormously influential report, Science, the Endless Frontier, which asserted a dichotomy between basic and applied science. This view was at the core of the compact between government and science that led to the golden age of scientific research after World War II-a compact that is currently under severe stress. In this book, Donald Stokes ... Read more

    $22.99 USD