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.

The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
More Than Words: The Science of Deepening Love and Connection in Any Relationship
Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World
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    One Million Trees: A True Story
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    Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

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    Bewilderment
    The Anthropocene Reviewed
    Transcendent Kingdom
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
    Her Hidden Genius
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
    Miss Benson's Beetle
    Termination Shock
    Migrations
    The Overstory
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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    Essential Books of Computer Science
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    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden by Henry David ThoreauA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeySilent Spring by Rachel Carson
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    The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAnimal Farm by George Orwell
    Works of Pure Genius
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    Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
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    Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
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    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
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    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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