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Author:Erik Hoel
The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences--potentially revolutionizing neuroscience and the future of technology--from a Forbes 30 Under 30 scientist.Throughout history, two perspectives on the world have dueled in our minds: the extrinsic--that of mechanism and physics--and the intrinsic--that of...- $34.99
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Author:Avi Loeb
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
From the New York Times bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity's survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars.In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial,...- $46.99
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Author:Jennifer Jewell
The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants
In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell--host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place--introduces seventy-five inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground...- $46.99
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Author:James Lovelock
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
In this classic work that continues to inspire its many fans, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on Earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which...- $9.99
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Author:Loren Grush
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency...- $44.99
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Author:Ashlee Vance
When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon MuskIn When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our...- $57.99
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Author:Adam Rutherford
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England...- $36.95
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Author:Gregory Berns
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities
A New York Times-bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are critical to our lives We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns argues in The Self Delusion, we don't just tell stories;...- $45.00
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Author:Tom Mustill
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill--the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty-ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak--asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication.When a whale is in the water,...- $45.00
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Author:Bryn Nelson
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
For readers of Giulia Enders' Gut and Bill Bryson's The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science journalist Bryn Nelson.The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history...- $45.00
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Author:Kirby Heyborne
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
Author: Kirby Heyborne, Michael Christopher CarrollISBN-10: 1665271744ISBN-13: 9781665271745Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/2017Format: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 6.00h x 5.80w x 1.10d- $51.99
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Author:Mark Owens
Cry of the Kalahari
This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied unique animals and were confronted with danger from drought, fire, storms, and the animals they loved. This bestselling book is for both travelers and animal...- $41.99
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Author:David R. Montgomery
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
Author: David R. MontgomeryISBN-10: 1665270136ISBN-13: 9781665270137Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs- $41.99
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Author:Sandra L. Richter
Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says about the Environment and Why It Matters
Sandra L. Richter cares about the Bible. She also cares about the environment. Using her expertise in ancient Israelite society and economy as well as in biblical theology, Richter walks listeners through passages familiar and not-so-familiar, showing how significant environmental theology is in the...- $31.99
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Author:John Tresch
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote...- $49.99
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Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson
Startalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know about Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative audiobook brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most confounding...- $36.95
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Author:Marc J. Seifer
Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
This revelatory new book delves deeply into the groundbreaking ideas and astonishing mind of one of the greatest geniuses of modern times, exploring the historical impact of Tesla's particle beam weapon and other brilliant work--and how it continues to shape global military strategies today.In...- $49.99
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Author:Leah Hazard
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
"Page for page, I may not have ever learned more from a book.... Womb is a history book as well as a biology book but it's also an adventure and a celebration." --Rob Delaney, actor and author of A Heart That WorksA groundbreaking, triumphant...- $46.99
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Author:Andreas Killen
Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ.The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the...- $46.99
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Author:Paul Bloom
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all timeHow does the brain--a three-pound wrinkly mass--give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by...- $51.99
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Author:Cutter Wood
Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions--from mucus to sweat to poop--revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving...- $41.99
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Author:Dan Levitt
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
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...- $46.99
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Author:Meredith Bagby
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
The never-before-told story of NASA's 1978 astronaut class, which included the first American women, the first African Americans, the first Asian American, and the first gay person to fly to space. With the exclusive participation of the astronauts who were there, this is the...- $51.99
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Author:Danielle J. Whittaker
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
The untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world.The puzzling lack of evidence for the peculiar but widespread belief that birds have no sense of smell irked evolutionary biologist Danielle...- $36.95
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Author:John Hands
The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic
This is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK's Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans...- $41.95
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Author:Michael Mehta Webster
The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on Earth
As the world continues to grapple with intensifying climate change, the situation often feels hopeless. In his groundbreaking debut, Michael Mehta Webster proves that hope can be found in nature itself. The natural world has a series of systems--rescue effects--that automatically activate to help...- $36.99
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Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson
Origins, Revised and Updated: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and crosspollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This revised and updated edition features...- $41.95
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Author:Elizabeth Weinberg
Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together
The time has come to reimagine our relationship to the environment before it is too late.As wildfires char the American West, extreme weather transforms landscapes, glaciers retreat, and climate zones shift, we are undeniably experiencing the effects of the climate crisis in more and...- $36.95
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Author:Laural Merlington
Staying with the Trouble Lib/E: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what...- $66.99
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Author:Beverly Gyllenhaal
A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population. Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty...- $39.99
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Author:Felix Flicker
The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life
An award-winning Oxford physicist draws on classic sci-fi, fantasy fiction, and everyday phenomena to explain and celebrate the magical properties of the world around us.If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be...- $39.99
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Author:Alan Finkel
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition
The world is overheating, and despite good intentions and significant efforts, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions.In this lucid, inspiring essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's path forward. He explains the solar and wind revolution and addresses the...- $29.99
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Author:Alice Robb
Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey
Author: Alice RobbISBN-10: 1665130458ISBN-13: 9781665130455Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.55lbs- $41.99
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Author:Kristin Ohlson
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices--and, especially, modern industrial agriculture--have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels...- $9.99
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Author:John F. Haught
God After Einstein: What's Really Going on in the Universe?
A leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening.Before the early twentieth century, scientists and theologians knew almost nothing about time's enormity and the corresponding immensity of space. But after Einstein, cosmology offers...- $36.95
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Author:John M. Marzluff
In Search of Meadowlarks: Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land
Author: John M. MarzluffISBN-10: 1665199237ISBN-13: 9781665199230Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2020Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs- $46.99
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Author:Bethany Brookshire
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals pests and others not--from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons--and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural worldA squirrel in the...- $46.99
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Author:Richard Panek
The Autistic Brain Lib/E: Thinking Across the Spectrum
A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate.When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in eighty-eight children diagnosed on the spectrum. And...- $66.99
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Author:Adam Rutherford
The Complete (Short) Guide to Absolutely Everything: Adventures in Math and Science
Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Geneticist Adam...- $36.99
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Author:Ian Tattersall
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
Author: Ian TattersallISBN-10: 8200004031ISBN-13: 9798200004034Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.48lbs- $46.99
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Author:Wallace H. Tucker
Chandra's Cosmos: Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by Nasa's Premier X-Ray Observatory
Author: Wallace H. TuckerISBN-10: 1665289120ISBN-13: 9781665289122Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.22lbs- $41.99
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Author:Chad Orzel
Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
Author: Chad OrzelISBN-10: 1665128461ISBN-13: 9781665128469Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs- $41.99
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Author:Scientific American
Quantum Universe
Strange and probabilistic, physics at the smallest scales is driving innovation and research into the nature of reality. In this audiobook, we examine the latest mind-bending studies in quantum mechanics, including theoretical mysteries such as entanglement, real-world applications, innovations in communications and computing, and...- $29.95
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Author:Jon Butterworth
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
Atom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking listeners on a guided journey through the subatomic world. Listeners will sail the subatomic seas in search of electron ports, boson continents, and hadron islands. The sea itself is the quantum...- $29.95
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Author:Jon Butterworth
Smashing Physics: Inside the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
The first insider account of the work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the discovery of the Higgs particle--and what it all means for our understanding of the laws of nature. The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two...- $9.99
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Author:Paul Halpern Phd
Einstein's Dice and Schrodinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schrodinger is equally well known for his thought experiment...- $34.95
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Author:George Musser
The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory: Take Your Understanding of Physics Into a Whole New Dimension!
Everything is connected. We're living in the midst of a scientific revolution that's captured the general public's attention and imagination. The aim of this new revolution is to develop a "theory of everything," a set of laws of physics that will explain all that...- $29.95
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Author:Scientific American
The Higgs Boson: Searching for the God Particle
One of the biggest discoveries in physics, the quest for the Higgs boson demonstrates the value of a good theory. In July 2012, a Higgs-like particle was found near the energies scientists predicted. Now, armed with better evidence and better questions, the scientific process...- $34.95
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Author:Richard Panek
The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
"A thoughtful meditation on the mythic, cultural, philosophical, and, yes, scientific implications of what happens when a wet potato or a crystal vase slips from your hand." (Billy Collins)A mind-bending exploration of gravity, the universe's greatest mystery. What is gravity? Nobody knows - and...- $24.99
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Author:Marianne E. Krasny
In This Together: Connecting with Your Community to Combat the Climate Crisis
In This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis.Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of "network climate action"―the idea that our own ordinary acts can...- $36.95
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