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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  • Inside the Hot Zone by Mark G. Kortepeter
    Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare
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    Making a Psychopath: My Journey into Seven Dangerous Minds
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  • The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O'Connor
    The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
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  • Bewilderment
    The Anthropocene Reviewed
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Transcendent Kingdom
    Migrations
    Her Hidden Genius
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Miss Benson's Beetle
    Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
    The Overstory
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
    Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonStiff by Mary RoachGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
    Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
    2,106 books — 1,234 voters
    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
    360 books — 314 voters

    Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    Medicine and Literature
    1,734 books — 1,950 voters
    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
    874 books — 857 voters

    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Sociology Books
    494 books — 414 voters

    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Cosmos
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #1)
    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 Gene: An Intimate History
    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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