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.

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The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks
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  • The Kitchen Pantry Scientist by Liz Lee Heinecke
    The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Chemistry for Kids: Homemade Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Chemists, Past and Present
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    Replicate a chemical reaction similar to one Marie Curie used to purify radioactive elements! Distill perfume using a method created in ancient Mesopo ...more
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 461 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: May 05 - Jun 02, 2020

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  • Green Swans by John Elkington
    Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
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    Release date: Apr 07, 2020
    Have you heard of Nicholas Taleb's "Black Swans?" Meet the "Green Swans" of the future.

    Even leading capitalists admit that capitalism is broken. Green
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    Giveaway dates: May 21 - Jun 04, 2020

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  • The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus
    The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
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    The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the ...more
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  • The End of October
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    The Other Einstein
    The Overstory
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
    Unnatural Causes
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    The Tumor
    The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
    Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
    No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    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
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    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Interesting and Readable NonFiction
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    2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickI, Robot by Isaac AsimovNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    The Origin of Species
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    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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