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  • Understanding Pain

    Exploring the Perception of Pain

    An expert explores the biological and emotional nature of pain: why it hurts and why some pain is good and some pain is bad.If you touch something hot, it hurts. You snatch your hand away from the hot thing immediately. Obviously. But what is really happening, biologically—and emotionally? In Understanding Pain, Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. When you touch ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Beauty of Chemistry

    Art, Wonder, and Science

    by Philip Ball ...
    A “visual tour through the under-appreciated chemical beauty that surrounds us”—with astonishing photographs of the scientific processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other natural wonders (WIRED)Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... Read more

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  • The Year Without Summer

    1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

    Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by historyIn the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Middle Age

    A Natural History

    "There's lots of good news for the middle aged…A very jolly book with clear scientific explanations."— The TelegraphDavid Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology—and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight, and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions: have I come to the ... Read more

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  • Top Brain, Bottom Brain

    Surprising Insights into How You Think

    One of the world’s leading neuroscientists teams up with an accomplished writer to debunk the popular left-brain/right-brain theory and offer an exciting new way of thinking about our minds.For the past fifty years, popular culture has led us to believe in the left-brain vs. right-brain theory of personality types. Right-brain people, we’ve been told, are artistic, intuitive, and thoughtful, while ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Weather Makers

    How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

    by Tim Flannery ...
    The #1 international bestseller on climate change that's been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world.Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • About Time

    Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang

    by Adam Frank ...
    The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe’s “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the railroad, the radio and the Internet.In The End of the Beginning, Adam Frank explains how the texture of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Evolution

    The Triumph of an Idea

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    "This brilliant book is a virtual Voyage of the Beagle! Carl Zimmer shows, with the benefit of a hundred and fifty years of hindsight, how right Darwin was." —Steve Jones, author of Darwin's GhostDarwin's The Origin of Species was breathtaking—beautifully written, staunchly defended, defiantly radical. Yet it emerged long before modern genetics, molecular biology, and contemporary findings in ... Read more

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  • Cosmological Enigmas

    Pulsars, Quasars, & Other Deep-Space Questions

    by Mark Kidger ...
    An astronomer brings the mysteries of space down to earth in this accessible guide to cosmology, astrophysics, and the ageless wonder of the night sky.The universe is big. Really big. And it gets bigger every day. In Cosmological Enigmas, Mark Kidger weaves together history, science, and science fiction to consider questions about the bigness of space and the strange objects that lie trembling at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War of Words

    How America’s GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II

    From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Berlin Airlift

    The Cold War Mission to Save a City

    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD