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.

Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath
The Saturn System: Through the Eyes of Cassini
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science
The Hormone Myth: How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down

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  • New Views by Alastair Bonnett
    New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before: 50 maps of our physical, cultural and political world
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    Giveaway dates: Oct 13 - Dec 01, 2017

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  • How We Eat with Our Eyes and Think with Our Stomachs by Melanie Mühl
    How We Eat with Our Eyes and Think with Our Stomachs: The Hidden Influences That Shape Your Eating Habits
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  • The Angry Chef by Anthony Warner
    The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating
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    Giveaway dates: Sep 30 - Oct 30, 2017

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  • This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    The Essex Serpent
    The Dollmaker (The Forgotten Files, #2)
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    Modern Romance
    From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
    Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    Lab Girl
    Chemistry
    Grit
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCoraline by Neil Gaiman
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    Watchmen by Alan MooreSoon I Will Be Invincible by Austin GrossmanThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael ChabonBatman by Frank MillerHero by Perry Moore
    Superhero Fiction
    636 books — 1,060 voters

    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
    Best Cognitive Science Books
    246 books — 309 voters
    Nietzsche by Rüdiger SafranskiEncounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 by Heinrich Wiegand PetzetThe Undiscovered Self by C.G. JungTesla by Margaret CheneyThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
    Scientists and Philosophers
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    My Lady Love by Bridgitte LesleyYou Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You? by Karl WigginsWitch in the Woods by Taylor Ann BunkerWood, Talc and Mr. J by Chris   RoseCalico Jack in your Garden by Karl Wiggins
    Try it!
    132 books — 150 voters
    Divergent by Veronica RothInsurgent by Veronica RothUglies by Scott WesterfeldThe Host by Stephenie MeyerDelirium by Lauren Oliver
    Best Books About Nanotechnology
    171 books — 729 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Grand Design
    The God Delusion
    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    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

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    Kate Ascher The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper
    Her Favorite Books About Architecture: The urban planner demystifies the skyscraper in her new work, The Heights, and offers five books about buildings.
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    “ Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ”
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    “ A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

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