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.

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
The Oak Papers
Just Eat: One Reporter's Quest for a Weight-Loss Regimen That Works
The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
The Brilliant Abyss
Mars! Earthlings Welcome
Vera Rubin: A Life
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
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    Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
    This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
    The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    The Overstory
    The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1)
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
    Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
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    Best of 21st Century Non-fiction
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    Salt by Mark KurlanskyAt Home by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterA History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
    Histories of the Everyday (nonfiction)
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    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
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    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Cosmos
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Origin of Species
    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 Gene: An Intimate History

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