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Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine
Hardback
Based on the popular Harvard University and EdX class, Science and Cooking explores the scientific basis of why recipes work.
Bones: Inside and Out
Hardback
A lively, illustrated exploration of the 500-million-year history of bone, a touchstone for understanding vertebrate life and human culture.
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Hardback
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Hardback
• Why is science so powerful?
• Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to...
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
Paperback
A Science News Favorite Book of 2019
An earth scientist reveals the dynamic biography of the most resonant—and most necessary—chemical element on Earth.