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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    When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
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    The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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  • Switching Gears by Dan K. Eberhart
    Switching Gears: The Petroleum-Powered Electric Car

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  • Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
    The Overstory
    Uncanny Valley
    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
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1)
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    The End of October
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
    A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
    Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)
    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
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    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
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    A Brief History of Time
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    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
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