Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

The Friendship Experiment
Nothing but Trouble
Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
Baby Loves Quarks!
Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet
The Way Things Work Now
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
I Am Josephine: (And I Am a Living Thing)

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    Modern Romance
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
    The Seventh Plague (Sigma Force, #12)
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Lab Girl
    The Last Days of Night
    The Tumor
    Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
    Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
    The Wright Brothers
    10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
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    The Selfish Gene
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    The God Delusion
    The Grand Design
    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

    Simon Winchester
    Simon Winchester Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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