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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: Various Authors
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific,...- $36.95
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Vendor: Naira de Gracia
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
Lab Girl meets Why Fish Don't Exist in this brilliant, fascinating memoir about a young scientist's experience studying penguins in Antarctica--a firsthand account of the beauty and brutality of this remote climate, the direct effects of climate change on animals, and the challenges of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Neil Armstrong
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to...- $51.99
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Vendor: Michael Benson
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Author: Michael BensonISBN-10: 1665226447ISBN-13: 9781665226448Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.70lbs- $57.99
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Vendor: Mark Gober
An End to Upside Down Contact: Ufos, Aliens, and Spirits--And Why Their Ongoing Interaction with Human Civilization Matters
Are we alone? The answer, according to Mark Gober's An End to Upside Down Contact, is a resounding NO. Humans exist among a variety of advanced species, sometimes identified as aliens, spirits, beings of light, and beyond. In fact, our civilization seems to be...- $36.95
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Vendor: Steven Novella
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us about the World of Tomorrow
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 be...- $50.00
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Vendor: Bret Stetka
A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to Crispr, How Our Brain Evolved
Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was going extinct until a dramatic shift occurred--Homo sapiens started tracking the tides in order to eat the nearby oysters. Before long, they'd pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. What saved us during that period of...- $34.99
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Vendor: 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...- $41.99
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Vendor: 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...- $31.95
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Vendor: Gene Kranz
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Author: Gene KranzISBN-10: 820008969XISBN-13: 9798200089697Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2011Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.60d- $57.99
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Vendor: Neil Degrasse Tyson
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all. In a time...- $29.99
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Vendor: 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...- $31.95
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Vendor: Various Authors
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit, climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific,...- $31.95
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Vendor: Natalie Angier
The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life
Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know--and sometimes more--about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go...- $31.95
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Vendor: Natalie Angier
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. The Canon is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a classic.Drawing on conversations with hundreds of the world's top scientists and...- $31.95
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Vendor: Natalie Angier
Woman: An Intimate Geography
A revised and updated anniversary edition of Natalie Angier's bestselling guide to―and celebration of―the female bodyWoman is a fascinating, fact-filled guide that covers everything from organs to orgasms, hormones to hysterectomies. With her characteristic clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language, bestselling author Natalie...- $46.95
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Vendor: 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...- $31.95
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