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.

Butts: A Backstory
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Einstein
Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Meanwhile Back on Earth
  • Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo
    Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

    Release date: Mar 14, 2023
    Decades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways ...more
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  • 853 Hard To Believe Facts by Nayden Kostov
    853 Hard To Believe Facts
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    Release date: Aug 17, 2018
    The Wishing Shelf Book Awards: 'A fun mix of facts that will surprise and amuse you.' ...more
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  • Awe by Dacher Keltner
    Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

    Release date: Jan 03, 2023
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    Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Bewilderment
    What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
    Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
    Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
    An Immense World
    Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
    Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
    Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
    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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    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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    Hyperion by Dan SimmonsDune by Frank HerbertEnder's Game by Orson Scott CardFoundation by Isaac AsimovThe Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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    920 books — 1,375 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
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    963 books — 923 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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