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.

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Figuring
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
Planets
Maker Comics: Bake Like a Pro!
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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    The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
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  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    The Naturalist
    The Only Woman in the Room
    The Fifth Risk
    The Rosie Result (Don Tillman, #3)
    Unsheltered
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
    Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
    How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
    The Overstory
    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George Orwell
    Works of Pure Genius
    486 books — 636 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
    Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
    1,407 books — 3,113 voters

    Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
    Histories of the Everyday
    243 books — 287 voters

    Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan Cain
    Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
    502 books — 301 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    The Origin of Species
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    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

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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “ For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Arthur C. Clarke
    “ I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. ”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke

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