Science Books

Secrets of the Octopus By Sy Montgomery, Warren K. Carlyle, IV Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781426223723
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Published: National Geographic - March 19th, 2024

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.


Lichenpedia: A Brief Compendium By Kay Hurley, Susan Adele Edwards (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Kay Hurley, Susan Adele Edwards (Illustrator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780691239903
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Published: Princeton University Press - May 28th, 2024

An illustrated mini-encyclopedia about the weird and wonderful world of lichens


Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe By Sean Carroll Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593186602
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Published: Dutton - May 14th, 2024

Quanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll’s already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality.
 


Sharkpedia: A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore By Daniel C. Abel, Marc Dando (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Daniel C. Abel, Marc Dando (Illustrator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9780691252612
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Published: Princeton University Press - May 28th, 2024

A fun, pocket-size A-Z treasury about sharks, featuring fascinating, little-known facts and captivating illustrations


Size: How It Explains the World By Vaclav Smil Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780063324107
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - May 14th, 2024

From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness


Did you know that the number of atoms in a cookie is about the same number of stars in the universe?


American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World By David Baron Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781324094692
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Published: Liveright - February 13th, 2024

Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award
An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science)
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction)
Booklist Editors’ Choice (Science & Technology)


How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite By Dr. Chris Balakrishnan, Matt Wasowski, Kristen Orr (Illustrator) Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781250288349
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Published: St. Martin's Press - February 20th, 2024

In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics.


Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization By Neil deGrasse Tyson Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250861511
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - January 9th, 2024

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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.


AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future By Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593238318
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Published: Crown Currency - March 5th, 2024

How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times). This edition includes a new foreword by Kai-Fu Lee.
 


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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures By Sabrina Imbler Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316540506
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Published: Back Bay Books - January 9th, 2024

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World).

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imb


On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory By Thomas Hertog Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780593128466
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Published: Bantam - March 5th, 2024

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos—a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time.