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 Great Indoors by Emily Anthes
    The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
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  • The Breast Defense is a Good Offense by Cathy Croshaw
    The Breast Defense is a Good Offense: Facing Life and Breast Cancer with an Infusion of Humor and Attitude
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  • Green Swans by John Elkington
    Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
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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
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Origin of Species
    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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    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
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    Walden by Henry David ThoreauSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe Age of Insight by Eric R. KandelBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerMarie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
    Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
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    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 — 553 voters

    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl Sagan
    Best General Science Books
    587 books — 485 voters


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