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.

If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours
Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
An Immense World
Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Death by Landscape
  • Our Tribal Future by David R. Samson
    Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good

    Release date: Apr 18, 2023
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  • A Silent Fire by Shilpa Ravella
    A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease

    Release date: Oct 11, 2022
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    Providing Safe, Healthy and Functional WorkSpaces
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    The cost of injuries and property damage are on the rise. Providing safe, healthy, and functional workspaces will lower these costs.
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  • Lessons in Chemistry
    What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    The Anthropocene Reviewed
    Bewilderment
    Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
    What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
    Transcendent Kingdom
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
    Dune by Frank HerbertFoundation by Isaac AsimovHyperion by Dan SimmonsEnder's Game by Orson Scott CardMatching Configurations by Kyle Keyes
    Space Opera
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    Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
    Best Books About Mathematics
    401 books — 635 voters
    Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickReady Player One by Ernest ClineCount Zero by William Gibson
    Best cyberpunk books
    190 books — 463 voters

    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittOutliers by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
    Sociology Books
    502 books — 424 voters
    I, Robot by Isaac AsimovDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick2001 by Arthur C. ClarkeNeuromancer by William GibsonThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
    Best Books on Artificial Intelligence
    317 books — 523 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 Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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