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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Magdalena: River of Dreams
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
Heart on Pluto
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
The Overstory
Interference
The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1)
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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  • Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
    Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

    Release date: Nov 17, 2020
    Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. Sure to ...more
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 523 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Oct 22 - Oct 29, 2020

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  • Rebel Cell by Kat Arney
    Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal

    Release date: Oct 13, 2020
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    Why do we get cancer? Is it our modern diets and unhealthy habits? Chemicals in the environment
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    Availability: 30 copies available, 1544 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Sep 29 - Oct 29, 2020

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  • The Mission by David W.      Brown
    The Mission: A True Story
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    Release date: Jan 26, 2021
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    A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project
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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
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    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 Grand Design
    The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
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