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.

Bunk: The True Story of Hoaxes, Hucksters, Humbug, Plagiarists, Forgeries, and Phonies
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
Hellfire Boys: The Untold History of Soldiers, Scientists, and America's First Race for Weapons of Mass Destruction
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Leonardo da Vinci
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

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    9x Fun: A Children's Picture Book That Makes Math Fun, with a Cartoon Story Format to Help Kids Learn the 9x Table; Educational Science (Math) Series
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    Dr. E's Super Stellar Solar System: Massive Mountains, Supersize Storms, Alien Atmospheres, and Other Out-Of-This-World Space Science
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  • The Cosmic Machine by Scott Bembenek
    The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
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    Modern Romance
    The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
    Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    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
    Chemistry
    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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    Grit
    The Dollmaker (The Forgotten Files, #2)
    Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
    The Quantum Spy
    Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
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    441 books — 986 voters
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    247 books — 371 voters

    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittQuiet by Susan CainThe Ecological Rift by John Bellamy FosterThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
    Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
    507 books — 397 voters

    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 — 147 voters
    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
    Best Nature Books
    577 books — 474 voters

    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    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
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

    Sam Kean
    Sam Kean The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
    His Favorite Science Books for Nonscientists: No need for a lab coat. Enjoy these picks from the science writer behind The Violinist's Thumb, an in-depth look at our genetic code.
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    Isaac Asimov
    “ The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ”
    ― Isaac Asimov

    Carl Sagan
    “ If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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