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
  • Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross
    Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

    Release date: Mar 07, 2023
    A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly ...more
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    Availability: 20 copies available, 2903 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Feb 04 - Feb 16, 2023

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  • The Things We Make by Bill Hammack
    The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
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    Release date: Mar 21, 2023
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 3815 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 20 - Feb 19, 2023

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  • Encounterism by Andy Field
    Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person

    Release date: Jul 18, 2023
    The light touch of a hairdresser’s hands on one’s scalp, the euphoric energy of a nightclub, huddling with strangers under a shelter in the rain, a sp ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Jan 22 - Feb 19, 2023

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  • Lessons in Chemistry
    Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
    Migrations
    What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
    “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
    Bewilderment
    Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
    Critical Mass
    Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
    Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
    An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
    Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
    The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
    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
    346 books — 510 voters
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
    Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
    1,690 books — 3,652 voters

    Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    Medicine and Literature
    1,809 books — 1,985 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
    195 books — 467 voters

    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondStiff by Mary RoachOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
    Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
    2,558 books — 1,438 voters
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWhy They Stay by Anne MichaudGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
    Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
    3,094 books — 1,331 voters

    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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