Alembic Rare Books
Alembic Rare Books specialises in rare science books, with special expertise in genetics and evolution, natural history, anatomy, microbiology & epidemiology, nuclear physics, atomic weapons, early computing, diversity in science, and popular science. Our Bookshop storefront sells new, non-fiction books in these and other subjects, as well as fiction titles we particularly like.
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
Adam Nicolson
Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Science, and the Global Quest for Fossils
Paige Williams
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful & Wonderful: Natural History, Biology, & Evolution.
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American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
Sharon Weinberger
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Now I Am Become Death: The Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapons, & Nuclear Power
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Philippe Sands
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
Shomari Wills
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Shelley Emling
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Dava Sobel
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
Emily Levesque
Stargazing: Beginners Guide to Astronomy
Tom Kerss, Royal Observatory Greenwich, et al.
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Cordelia Fine
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Angela Saini
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Mary Robinson
The Discovery of Global Warming: Revised and Expanded Edition (Revised, Expanded)
Spencer R. Weart
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
Henri-Jean Martin and Lucien Febvre
The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World
Margaret C Jacob, Lynn Hunt, et al.
