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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The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World
  • The Complete Nonfiction Works on Philosophy, Logic, Psycholog... by Russell Hasan
    The Complete Nonfiction Works on Philosophy, Logic, Psychology, Law, Politics, and Economics (Prestige Edition)
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    Release date: Nov 21, 2022
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  • Wow in the World by Mindy Thomas
    Wow in the World: What in the Wow?!: 250 Bonkerballs Facts
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    Giveaway dates: Jan 07 - Feb 06, 2023

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  • Bizarre by Marc Dingman
    Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works
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  • Lessons in Chemistry
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
    Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
    Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again
    What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
    Bewilderment
    Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
    Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
    An Immense World
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
    Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
    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
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    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
    323 books — 533 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 — 321 voters
    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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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Cosmos
    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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