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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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
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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    Release date: May 05, 2020
    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, 471 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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    Availability: 100 copies available, 171 people requesting

    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
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Sociology Books
    430 books — 371 voters
    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. ThompsonA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessCoraline by Neil Gaiman
    Trippy Books
    825 books — 968 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
    787 books — 540 voters
    Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. CormenStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonThe C Programming Language by Brian W. KernighanThe Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set by Donald Ervin KnuthThe Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
    Essential Books of Computer Science
    174 books — 242 voters

    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
    Best Nature Books
    747 books — 596 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
    1,542 books — 3,391 voters

    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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