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  • Untitled TR

    A One Signal Publishers Book. One Signal Publishers has a great book for every reader. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Dr. Fun Guy's Passport to Kingdom Fungi

    A Scientist's Guide to the Wild and Wonderful World of Mushrooms, Molds, and More

    by Gordon Walker ...
    Learn the basics of fungal biology, foraging, and identification in this in-depth illustrated introduction from the beloved scientist, mushroom enthusiast, and social media star behind Fascinated By Fungi.In Dr. Fun Guy’s Passport to Kingdom Fungi, Dr. Gordon Walker brings his scientific knowledge and love for everything fungi to the page. The first section of this book is written in a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Fairbanks Four

    Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement

    One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.October, 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond recognition. Two days later, he dies in the hospital. His name is John Gilbert Hartman and he's just turned 15 years old. The police quickly arrest four suspects, all ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Getting Better

    On October 7th, 2007, his senior year of high school, Will Carter leaves work and heads home to get sleep before re-taking the SAT the following morning. Three weeks later, he wakes up in a hospital bed, a trach in my throat, covered in IV' s and scars, confused, and with a terrible pain in his head. He learns that he has suffered a brain injury and stroke and that he is waking up from a medically ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Sisters in Science

    How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History

    The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi GermanyIn the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stücklen were eminent in their fields, but they had no ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Careful Surgeon

    Stories of Care, Crisis, Compassion and the NHS

    How we, as individuals - and as a society - respond to crisis says a lot about us. How resilient are we? Who do we obey and who do we believe?With The Careful Surgeon, Dr Shehan Hettiarchy - London's Major Trauma Director - gives us an insight on how to cope with and be our best selves during crisis. Drawing on his experiences leading crisis response teams for some of London's biggest tragedies, ... Read more

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  • Willard Gibbs

    The Whole is Simpler than Its Parts

    A poet’s lost biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century—as well as an ingenious and expansive treatise on American creativity, character, and remembrance.Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) was an American visionary whose work shaped a century of science by bridging classical mechanics and quantum physics. A kindly and shy bachelor who ... Read more

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  • The Impossible Man

    Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

    The first biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger PenroseAs a little boy, Roger Penrose and his father discovered a sundial in a clearing behind their home. In that machine made of light, shadow, and time, six-year-old Roger discovered a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry, beginning a journey toward becoming one of the world’s ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Too Young for Cancer

    One Woman's Battle for Diagnosis and a Fighting Chance

    by Katie Coleman ...
    A Stage IV cancer survivor reflects on treatment and recovery in this inspiring memoir that reveals the biases of the healthcare system—and the power of community.New Year's Eve 2020 was supposed to be a turning point to better days for 29-year-old Katie Coleman. Instead, she found herself in the ER processing the earth-shattering news of a stage IV cancer diagnosis, one that had come after years ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days

    by Michael Kempe ...
    Translated by Marshall Yarbrough ...
    A biography of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) told through seven critical days spanning his life and revealing his contributions to our modern world.Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. These individuals share the venerable title of polymath—or, more colloquially, “Renaissance man.” Compared to his peers, though, Leibniz has all but ... Read more

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  • Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

    The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country.Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But today, Franklin is remembered more for his political prowess and diplomatic achievements than his ... Read more

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  • Sea Bean

    A Beachcomber's Search for a Magical Charm—A Memoir

    by Sally Huband ...
    “Sea Bean is a coastal treasure. Its hard-won attentiveness shows the wonder and vulnerability of our interconnected oceans, wildlife, and people. In Sally's writing, beachcombing—an old island pursuit—is modern, revealing and restorative. The next time I am at the shore I will have a deeper appreciation and curiosity."—Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun and The InstantA powerful journey of sea and ... Read more

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  • Letters

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decadesDr. Oliver Sacks—who describes himself variously in these pages as “a philosophical physician,” “an astronomer of the inward,” and a ... Read more

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  • The Life Scientific Quiz Book 2

    by Various ...
    Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, TelegraphBased on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific: Explorers takes science out of its box and introduces us to the men and women who make it happen.The explorers featured in this volume ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Fleisch ist mein Gemüse

    Eine Landjugend mit Musik

    by Heinz Strunk ...
    Wie es ist, in Harburg aufzuwachsen, das weiß Heinz Strunk genau. Harburg, nicht Hamburg. Mitte der 80er ist Heinz volljährig und hat immer noch Akne, immer noch keinen Job, immer noch keinen Sex. Doch dann wird er Bläser bei Tiffanys, einer Showband, die auf den Schützenfesten zwischen Elbe und Lüneburger Heide bald zu den größten gehört. Aber auch das Musikerleben hat seine Schattenseiten: ... Read more

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  • Diary of 66

    The Night I Burned Alive

    Diary of 66 is one woman's triumph over tragedy, and also a warning about the often-deadly consequences of corruption, in all of its shapes and forms. A young Romanian rock music journalist leaves home on the night of October 30, 2015, to go to a Goodbye to Gravity concert. She wants to write a review about the gig, to help promote the band, which is considered Romania's rising star on the local ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Quiet Counsel

    Looking Back on a Life of Service to the Law

    "We all should heed the lessons I've learned and what I continue to believe: the law, properly applied, is a powerful force for good in our society."In this thoughtful and candid memoir, former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Larry D. Thompson explores the big questions of his life and career, from his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri to his time advising the nation's most powerful figures in ... Read more

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  • How Do You Feel?

    One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine

    by Jessi Gold ...
    A poignant and thought-provoking memoir following one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical costs of caring for others—perfect for fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and The In-Between.For Dr. Jessi Gold, everything was absolutely fine—until it suddenly wasn’t. As an assistant professor, practicing psychiatrist, university wellness leader, ... Read more

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  • Der Wald kennt die Antwort

    Wie du mit der Urkraft der Natur zu dir selbst findest

    Series series Spiritualität
    Der Wald ist ein magischer Ort zu jeder Tages- und Jahreszeit. Seine heilsame Wirkung spüren wir schon beim einfachen Spaziergang, der Körper und Geist belebt. In diesem spirituellen Ratgeber geht Bärbel Oftring, Autorin und Biologin mit langjähriger schamanischer Erfahrung, weit über das Waldbaden hinaus. Sie nimmt uns mit auf eine einzigartige Selbsterfahrungsreise: In den magischen Sphären des ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Katz Walk: A Legendary Jewish Professor's Lessons: Teaching, Acting, and Direc ting Techniques at a Historically Black University

    A Legendary Jewish Professor's Lessons: Teaching, Acting, and Directing Techniqu es at a Historically Black University

    by Vera Katz ...
    "A KATZ WALK" is Vera J. Katz's magnum opus, encapsulating her lifelong commitment to transforming the performing arts as a pioneering White Jewish teacher at a major African American university since the 1960s. This seminal work, echoing the importance of "An Actor Prepares" and "Respect for Acting," is crucial for anyone seeking a profound and diverse understanding of the theatrical craft."A ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Times Lives Behind the Music

    Edited by Nigel Farndale, Times Books ...

    $12.99 USD

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  • Academic Inferno

    My Academic Trip Through Adjunct Hell

    by Virgil Henry ...
    Series Book 1 - The Divine Comedy
    Welcome to Adjunct Hell, where second-class teachers do first-class work.A 30-year veteran of higher-education, Professor Virgil Henry uses Dante's Inferno as a guide to take readers on an epic adventure through the hellscape of higher education in the United States.Follow Virgil and his band of like-minded adjuncts as they battle educational bureaucracy, low-pay, lack of health-care or job ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Reentry

    SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age

    by Eric Berger ...
    **How did a shaky startup that barely got its first rocket off the ground defy expectations to become the world’s leading spaceflight company?Get the untold story of the team of game-changers, led by a well-known billionaire, who are sending NASA astronauts to space—and just might carry the human race to Mars.**In the 21st century, space travel has become a commercial venture. And one company ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Eight-Legged Wonders

    The Surprising Lives of Spiders

    TARGET AUDIENCE: Readers of books that make us love unusual life forms, The Book of Eels, The Soul of an Octopus, What a Fish Knows, Entangled Life.ENTHUSIASTIC AND POSITIVE: The author’s writing overflows with enthusiasm and love for his favorite creature.SURPRISING SCIENCE: Incredible spider fact after incredible spider fact creates a surprising and compe... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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