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The Parsimonious Universe: Shape and Form in the Natural World by Stefan Hildebrandt 9781461275329
RRP: $148.05Booksplease Price: $112.92The variety of sizes, shapes, and irregularities in nature is endless. Through illustrations and text, the authors of The Parsimonious Universe describe the efforts by scientists and mathematicians... -
Taking Nature Into Account: A Report to the Club of Rome Toward a Sustainable National Income by Wouter Van Dieren 9780387945330
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.90Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy (GDP, national income, etc.) are based on a number of factors ss but nowhere in their calculation is there an acknowledgement of the degradation of natural... -
Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve by Bernie Devlin 9780387949864
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.12This is author-approved bcc. If it is too long, delete the last sentence in each of the biographies. THE BELL CURVE by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, a best selling book published in 1994,... -
Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science by Connie Barlow 9780387947945
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.48In a provocative book that is sure to be controversial, Connie Barlow puts forth a compelling case for breaching the barrier between science and religion-in effect, for a reunification of knowledge... -
Green Space, Green Time: The Way of Science by Connie Barlow 9781461268642
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.04In a provocative book that is sure to be controversial, Connie Barlow puts forth a compelling case for breaching the barrier between science and religion-in effect, for a reunification of knowledge... -
Riddle of the Bones: Politics, Science, Race, and the Story of Kennewick Man by Roger Downey 9780387988771
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.83From its discovery in the Columbia River three years ago, reporter Roger Downey has chronicled the epic adventures of the skeleton called "Kennewick Man": first as a pretext for a media... -
Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic, and Human Frailty by Laszlo Mero 9780387984193
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $78.73What does game theory tell us about rational behavior? Is there such a thing as rational behavior, and if so, is it of any use to us? In this fascinating book, renowned Hungarian economist Laszlo... -
Hot House: Global Climate Change and the Human Condition by Robert G. Strom 9780387341798
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $40.99Global warming is extremely complex because it deals with so many different characteristics of the Earth and their complex interactions. It is addressed by almost all sciences including many aspects... -
Lonely Minds in the Universe by Giancarlo Genta 9780387339252
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $45.74This interdisciplinary book probes the subject of extraterrestrial intelligent life, offering scientific and technological implications, discussing the philosophical and religious connotations and... -
Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic, and Human Frailty by Laszlo Mero 9781461272328
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $76.31What does game theory tell us about rational behavior? Is there such a thing as rational behavior, and if so, is it of any use to us? In this fascinating book, renowned Hungarian economist Laszlo... -
Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space by Harrison Schmitt 9780387242859
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $68.82Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon-to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for... -
How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality by Per Bak 9780387987385
RRP: $92.38Booksplease Price: $66.34and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical... -
How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality by Per Bak 9780387947914
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $67.49and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical... -
Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics by Stephen Webb 9780387029306
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $62.50Stephen Webb, author of WHERE IS EVERYBODY?, takes the interested amateur on a thrilling and enlightening tour of the amazing, even bizarre, new ideas of modern physics, including alternatives to the... -
The Little Book of Stars by James B. Kaler 9780387950051
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $42.76The Little Book of Stars tells the story of stellar science and what the stars mean to us from a variety of perspectives. Beginning with the "big picture;' the book moves through progressively more... -
Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness by Alwyn Scott 9780387943817
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $47.36Human consciousness has perplexed philosophers, artists and scientists for centuries. Some hold it to be purely physical, while others believe it transcends the material world. Now comes a book that... -
Ultimate Zero and One: Computing at the Quantum Frontier by Colin P. Williams 9780387947693
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.12As miniaturisation deepens, and nanotechnology and its machines become more prevalent in the real world, the need to consider using quantum mechanical concepts to perform various tasks in computation... -
The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $52.48Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we're dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine... -
Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness by Alwyn Scott 9781461275664
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $40.49Stairway to the Mind explores one of the most exciting and controversial areas of modern science: consciousness and the nature of the mind. The book proposes that consciousness emerges from... -
Thinking in Circles About Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management by Tarek K. A. Hamid 9780387094687
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $48.30Today's children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its... -
Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles by Richard B. McKenzie 9780387769998
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $62.98This entertaining book seeks to unravel an array of pricing puzzles from the one captured in the book's title to why so many prices end with "9" (as in $2.99 or $179). Along the way, the author... -
Thomas Gray in Copenhagen: In Which the Philosopher Cat Meets the Ghost of Hans Christian Andersen by Philip J. Davis 9781475743685
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $69.74The further adventures of a feline philosopher and friend. Could it be? Hans Christian Andersen - who wrote so lovingly of inchworms and ugly ducklings - an unrepentant despiser of cats? That's the... -
The Little Book of Time by J. Eisinger 9780387952888
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.48chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 Time and Creation According to Saint Augustine 15... -
Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos by Gregory L. Matloff 9780387360546
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $54.01This book presents a visionary concept for future development of space travel. It describes the enabling technology for future propulsion concepts and demonstrates how mankind will 'live off the land... -
Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos by C. Bangs 9781489988775
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.12This book presents a visionary concept for future development of space travel. It describes the enabling technology for future propulsion concepts and demonstrates how mankind will 'live off the land... -
Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon by Richard Greenberg 9780387479361
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $64.49Jupiter's ice moon Europa is widely regarded as the most likely place to find extraterrestrial life. This book tells the engaging story of Europa, the oceanic moon. It features a large number of... -
Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film by Mike Adams 9781461404170
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $67.47The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to develop... -
Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth by Paul Murdin 9780387755335
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $47.52[the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble] Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in... -
The Tunguska Mystery by Vladimir Rubtsov 9781461429258
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $70.96The purpose of the book is a dual one: to detail the nature and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and present-day CIS, and to destroy two long-standing myths still held in the... -
Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics by Stephen Webb 9781441918529
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $45.78This book is an attempt to share some of the fascinating and exciting ideas of modern theoretical physics with a non-mathematical audience. I also hope to give some appreciation of the exceptionally... -
They Play, You Pay: Why Taxpayers Build Ballparks, Stadiums, and Arenas for Billionaire Owners and Millionaire Players by James T. Bennett 9781461433316
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $58.44They Play, You Pay is a detailed, sometimes irreverent look at a political conundrum: despite evidence that publicly funded ballparks, stadiums, and arenas do not generate net economic growth,... -
The Human Experience: How to make life better for your customers and create a more successful organization by John Sills
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.61The essential guide to creating a successful organization by making things easier, better and more straightforward for your customers. Leadership Book of the Year 2023, as awarded by the Institute...