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The Brain An Illustrated History of Neuroscience

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Shelter Harbor Press and Worth Press: January 2015

Seller ID: 350362

ISBN: 1627950370

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Audubon Handbook: Eastern Birds

By: Farrand, John

Price: $7.50

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional: January 1988

Seller ID: 329286

ISBN: 0070199760

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Describes more than four hundred species commonly found in the Eastern U.S., and provides information on range, characteristics, and behavior.
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Water Runs Through This Book

By: Flood, Nancy Bo

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing: August 2015

Seller ID: 332619

ISBN: 1936218135

Condition: Used - Very Good

Winner of:
2015 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA)

Through photographs, verse and narration, this book celebrates the most essential ingredient to life: water. Author and educator, Nancy Bo Flood and award-winning photographer, Jan Sonnenmair, combine imagination and information to explore this ever-changing and mysterious element. Water Runs Through This Book teaches how water runs through all aspects of our lives. Including everyday tips to help conserve, it will inspire children and adults to value water resources and to become better global citizens.
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The Story of Science: Newton at the Center

By: Hakim, Joy

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Smithsonian Books: October 2005

Seller ID: 336640

ISBN: 1588341615

Condition: Used - Very Good

In volume two, students will watch as Copernicus's systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe--to the dismay of establishment thinkers. After students follow the achievements and frustrations of Galileo, Kepler, and Descartes, they will appreciate the amazing Isaac Newton, whose discoveries about gravity, motion, colors, calculus, and Earth's place in the universe set the stage for modern physics, astronomy, mathematics, and chemistry.

In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought fro...
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The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way

By: Hakim, Joy

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Smithsonian Books: May 2004

Seller ID: 336641

ISBN: 1588341607

Condition: Used - Very Good

Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous people as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Hakim will introduce them to Aristotle--one of the greatest philosophers of all time--whose scientific ideas dominated much of the world for eighteen centuries.

In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientif...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

By: Kuhn, Thomas S.

Price: $5.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: April 2012

Seller ID: 336475

ISBN: 0226458121

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were--and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach.

With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing li...
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$Image for Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730$

Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light-Based on the Fourth Edition London, 1730

By: Newton, Sir Isaac,Cohen, I. Bernard,Einstein, Albert,Whittaker, Sir Edmund

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Dover Publications: May 2012

Seller ID: 331098

ISBN: 0486602052

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Recommended to all scientists." -- Journal of Royal Naval Scientific Service
"The publishers do us a service by issuing this reprint." -- The Institute of Physics
"An underpinning for the entire edifice of physics." -- Scientific American
A comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century knowledge about all aspects of light, Opticks also offers countless scientific insights by its distinguished author. One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, this volume will impress readers with its surprisingly modern perspectives.
In language that ...
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Hubble Legacy Edition

By: Sparrow, Giles

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Metro Books: January 2014

Seller ID: 350686

ISBN: 1435155726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Facts on File Dictionary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (The Facts on File Science Dictionary Series)

By: Steinberg, Mark L.,Cosloy, Sharon D.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Checkmark Books: December 2000

Seller ID: 343072

ISBN: 0816042756

Condition: Used - Very Good

Defines more than 1900 terms, and serves the research needs of both the student and the advanced researcher.
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Spurious Correlations

By: Vigen, Tyler

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Hachette Books: May 2015

Seller ID: 337021

ISBN: 0316339431

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Spurious Correlations ... is the most fun you'll ever have with graphs."--Bustle

Military intelligence analyst and Harvard Law student Tyler Vigen illustrates the golden rule that "correlation does not equal causation" through hilarious graphs inspired by his viral website.

Is there a correlation between Nic Cage films and swimming pool accidents? What about beef consumption and people getting struck by lightning? Absolutely not. But that hasn't stopped millions of people from going to tylervigen.com and asking, "Wait, what?" Vigen has designed so...
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The World of Physics: A Small Library of the Literature of Physics from Antiquity to the Present (3 Volumes)

By: Weaver, Jefferson Hane

Price: $15.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.: January 1987

Seller ID: 348918

ISBN: 0671642162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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