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.

An Immense World
Death by Landscape
Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
Future Stories: What's Next?
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
Birdgirl: A Young Environmentalist Looks to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
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    The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

    Release date: Jan 03, 2022
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  • The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    Release date: Oct 25, 2022
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  • Venus by Michael T. Santini
    Venus: Don’t Go There: Unveiling a Biblical Hell
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    Release date: Feb 10, 2022
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    The Surgeon's Daughter
    The German Wife
    The Anthropocene Reviewed
    Bewilderment
    Transcendent Kingdom
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
    Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
    The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    The Ministry for the Future
    Miss Benson's Beetle
    What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Sociology Books
    499 books — 418 voters

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonCoraline by Neil GaimanHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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    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
    Best Cognitive Science Books
    325 books — 502 voters

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeDivergent by Veronica Roth
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    1,399 books — 1,098 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
    922 books — 892 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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