Science
Discover a range of science books, including fiction novels about science, intriguing science facts, and essential physics books. Explore the best sci-fi books and top-selling science titles
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American and The Economist The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world's first seed bank who made "the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost...
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The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals SickA healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases. When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits--rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; waterfowl and avian flu; or mosquitoes and Zika. But, in this urgent and engaging book,...
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The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge"A Copernican revolution for the life sciences."--Medical Tribune Unlock the mysteries of biology, anthropology, and ancient civilizations in this thought-provoking read where science and spirituality intersect. Through Jeremy Narby′s travels and research in the Amazon, he discovered that shamans were able to use hallucinogens...
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and ThinkFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and What an Owl Knows, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and...
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Society of MindMarvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components...
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-TimeLearn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary...
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Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being HumanA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Seven Deadly Sins will explore the underlying nature of the seven deadly sins, their neuroscientific and psychological basis, and their origin in our genes.Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger. These are The Seven Deadly Sins,...
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Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How Us Military Engineers Conquered Extreme EnvironmentsA vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide--and beyond. Deserts, the Arctic, outer space--these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, spurred by...
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Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New WorldsYou are in possession of an exquisite machine motionlessly buoyant in the softly circulating fluids of your skull. A world-building machine. And psychedelic molecules are the tools for tuning and operating this machine...From LSD to magic mushrooms to DMT to Salvia divinorum, psychedelics are...
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Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & CosmologyThe quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and cosmology expresses...
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Photographic Atlas of the Moon: A Comprehensive Guide for the Amateur AstronomerWritten by a dedicated selenophile (a person who loves the Moon), this guide to Earth's celestial companion is a non-technical narrative that quickly elevates the lunar novice to lunar authority. Photographic Atlas of the Moon explains how the Earth and the Moon are locked...
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Newtonian Physics for BabiesOpen the door to a lifetime of curiosity! A joyful, brain-boosting first step into science for babies and toddlers. Introduce your little learner to Newton's laws of motion with a science book that's more than just cute--it's clever, accurate, and made to grow with...
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Mushrooms of Cascadia, Second Edition: An Illustrated Key to the Fungi of the Pacific NorthwestAn illustrated key to identifying the mushrooms of the Cascadian bioregion, stretching from coastal Alaska to central California and Idaho, featuring nearly 1,100 full-color photographs and more than 3,000 species. In this unique and comprehensive field guide, mycologist Dr. Michael Beug helps mushroom hunters...
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Many Things Under a Rock Young Readers Edition: The Mysteries of OctopusesAmong all the ocean's creatures, few are more captivating--or more elusive--than the octopus. Marine biologist David Scheel investigates these strange beings to try and answer long-held questions: How can we learn more about an animal whose perfect camouflage and secretive habitats make them invisible...
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Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's EmergenceAn intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we...
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Laboratory Manual for Introductory GeologyDeveloped by three experts to coincide with geology lab kits, this laboratory manual provides a clear and cohesive introduction to the field of geology. Introductory Geology is designed to ease new students into the often complex topics of physical geology and the study of...
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Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the CosmosA leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour--"perfect for anyone who enjoyed Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" (Publishers Weekly)--of how science confronts the big questions about the origins, destiny, and fundamental nature of our universe Humans have learned a...
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How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the WorldThere are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us--like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in. "No one...
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Grizzly Confidential: An Astounding Journey Into the Secret Life of North America's Most Fearsome PredatorIn Grizzly Confidential, author Kevin Grange--former paramedic and park ranger at Yellowstone and Grand Teton--comes face-to-face with North America's most fearsome predator, Ursus Arctos.His quest takes him from his home in the Tetons to an eerie, mist-shrouded island of gigantic bruins; from the Bear...
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Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore"This little book is big fun."--Michael Pollan An illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy rings Fungipedia presents a delightful A-Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries--on topics as varied as Alice...
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