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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.

New Releases Tagged "Science"

The Sleep Fix: Practical, Proven, and Surprising Solutions for Insomnia, Snoring, Shift Work, and More

Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World

How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

National Geographic Ocean: A Global Odyssey

Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond

The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World

Patient Zero: A Brief History of the Science Stories Behind the World's Worst Diseases

A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down

A Dinosaur Named Ruth: How Ruth Mason Discovered Fossils in Her Own Backyard

Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore

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Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit and What You Can Do About It

Bonnie Schneider

Release date: Jan 25, 2022

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The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire by Dr. McAnonymous

The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire : True Tales from the ER

Dr. McAnonymous (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Jan 26, 2021

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The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

David Robson (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Feb 15, 2022

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Lists

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The Absolute Sandman, Volume One by Neil Gaiman

best books concerning dreams

301 books — 241 voters

Best cyberpunk books

186 books — 456 voters

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Trippy Books

827 books — 970 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Medicine and Literature

1,734 books — 1,950 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Interesting and Readable Nonfiction

2,113 books — 1,227 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Best Cognitive Science Books

326 books — 499 voters

Science Books

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 Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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Quotes Tagged “Science”

“ We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ”
― Stephen Hawking

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