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.

New Releases Tagged "Science"

Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical
Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
Bunk: The True Story of Hoaxes, Hucksters, Humbug, Plagiarists, Forgeries, and Phonies
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
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
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything

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  • Atom Land by Jon Butterworth
    Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
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    Cherokee DNA Studies: Real People Who Proved the Geneticists Wrong
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    The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
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  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    Modern Romance
    This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    The Demon Crown (Sigma Force #13)
    The Dollmaker (The Forgotten Files, #2)
    Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
    Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
    Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
    When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    Lab Girl
    The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
    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
    647 books — 1,072 voters

    Nietzsche by Rüdiger SafranskiEncounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 by Heinrich Wiegand PetzetThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Undiscovered Self by C.G. JungTesla by Margaret Cheney
    Scientists and Philosophers
    124 books — 200 voters
    Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    Medicine and Literature
    1,279 books — 1,619 voters


    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    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
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
    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
    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

    Simon Winchester
    Simon Winchester Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
    His Favorite Books About the Sea: Grab a thick blanket and a hot toddy to read this journalist's favorite bedtime books about the sea, the briny subject of his new work of nonfiction, Atlantic.
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    “ Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. ”
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