|
| #1 |
 |
 |
| The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
|
Richard Restak & Scott Kim.
|
| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
|
| ISBN: 9781594487774. Daedalus Item Code: 30382 |
| |
| It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve, but when neuroscientist Richard Restak discovered new research that indicated puzzles could actually help the brain improve itself, he wondered: could ... (Read More)
|
| |
|
List Price: $26.95
Sale Price: $7.98
You Save: $18.97
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #2 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #3 |
 |
|
| Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art
|
J.R. Leibowitz.
|
| Publisher: Johns Hopkins. Format: hardcover.
|
| ISBN: 9780801888663. Daedalus Item Code: 23715 |
| |
| Rather than presenting another treatise on the underlying science of perspective or the psychology of perception, this art and science book instead addresses the surprisingly broad common ground ... (Read More)
|
| |
|
List Price: $28.00
Sale Price: $5.98
You Save: $22.02
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #4 |
 |
|
| Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
|
Robert L. Fleming Jr., Dorje Tsering, & Liu Wulin. Jimmy Carter, foreword.
|
| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
|
| ISBN: 9780393061178. Daedalus Item Code: 01922 |
| |
| Presented in color photographs, captions, and a detailed narrative travelogue, this book depicts the staggering beauty and diversity of Tibet, from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from ... (Read More)
|
| |
List Price: $49.95
Sale Price: $14.98 $9.98
You Save: $39.97
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #5 |
 |
|
| Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
|
Iain McCalman.
|
| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
|
| ISBN: 9780393068146. Daedalus Item Code: 21116 |
| |
| Australian historian Iain McCalman offers this group portrait of four amateur naturalists—Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace—who voyaged separately from Britain to the ... (Read More)
|
| |
|
List Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $6.98
You Save: $22.97
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #6 |
 |
|
| Poison: An Illustrated History
|
Joel Levy.
|
| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: paperback.
|
| ISBN: 9780762770564. Daedalus Item Code: 22938 |
| |
| Easy to obtain and administer, poisons are often hard to detect or trace. They can kill, but they can also smooth wrinkles, calm nerves, create inspiring visions, and cure illnesses. Indeed, says ... (Read More)
|
| |
|
List Price: $16.95
Sale Price: $3.98
You Save: $12.97
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #7 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #8 |
 |
|
| Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information
|
Vlatko Vedral.
|
| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
|
| ISBN: 9780199237692. Daedalus Item Code: 13709 |
| |
| For a physicist, all the world is information. The universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information; we are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic ... (Read More)
|
| |
|
List Price: $29.95
Sale Price: $5.98
You Save: $23.97
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #9 |
 |
|
| The Wavewatcher's Companion
|
Gavin Pretor-Pinney.
|
| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
|
| ISBN: 9780747589761. Daedalus Item Code: 24041 |
| |
| (Winner of the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books) One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching ... (Read More)
|
| |
|
List Price: Import
Sale Price: $5.98
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| #10 |
 |
|
| Earth on Fire: How Volcanoes Shape Our Planet
|
Angelika Jung-Huttl. Bernhard Edmaier, photog.
|
| Publisher: Phaidon. Format: hardcover.
|
| ISBN: 9780714857008. Daedalus Item Code: 23816 |
| |
| This stunning collection of photographs showcases some of the world's most dramatic and beautiful volcanic landscapes. Along with geothermal regions in Europe, the Americas, Africa, New Zealand, the ... (Read More)
|
| |
|
List Price: $59.95
Sale Price: $19.98
You Save: $39.97
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
