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 Genius of Birds"Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of 'bird brains, ' [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . ." --New York Times Book Review "A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence." --Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe...
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian ReverieFrom a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Science - Named Science Book of the Year by Times (UK) - A Guardian...
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The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American RevolutionA Washington Post Noteworthy Book "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." --The New Yorker "From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges." --Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Revolutionary "A fascinating, innovative,...
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The Fall of the YearStirring accounts of the author's autumn adventures in the out of doors, interspersed with specific suggestions for tramps afield in the fall of the year providing things to look for and hear and do as the world turns toward winter. Includes six bits of...
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The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the MapNew York Times-bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behavior and help us find meaning. Off the beaten path, following unmarked trails, we are wired to explore. More than just a...
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered PlanetGoodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People"The Anthropocene Reviewed is...
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Ten Birds That Changed the WorldFrom "a captivating storyteller" (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions,...
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Stay Curious and Keep Exploring: 50 Amazing, Bubbly, and Creative Science Experiments to Do with the Whole FamilyNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the host of Netflix's Emily's Wonder Lab and FOX's Xploration Outer Space comes a book featuring 50 experiments that introduce the wonders of science to the whole family. MIT engineer Emily Calandrelli shares the science behind each experiment while showing you...
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--And May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease"An elegant, wide-ranging history" (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning--and the pitfalls of ego--as it does about microbes. "Levenson takes readers through an entertaining ....
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant TeacherLearn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessons It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that...
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Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the BinaryWhy human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap...
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Science!, 2nd EditionDK's best-selling richly illustrated encyclopedia series explores the wonderful world of science. Learn the ins and outs of science as you've never seen it before, through incredibly detailed 3D illustrations, in this encyclopedia for children aged 9+. Knowledge Encyclopedia's clear explanations, illustrations, photographs, and...
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Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a...
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Quantum Physics for BabiesFans of Organic Chemistry for Babies, Rocket Science for Babies, and 8 Little Planets will love this early introduction to quantum physics!Start your baby's science journey with a book that sparks wonder--before they can even talk. Quantum Physics for Babies makes the wild world...
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Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats: A Guide to the History, Identification, and Use of Psychoactive FungiA full-color guide to psilocybin mushrooms--how to forage, identify, grow, and use them--with detailed descriptions, 300 stunning photographs, tips for dosing safely, and more, from a world-renowned mycologist. The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in using psilocybin (aka psychoactive or "magic")...
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Pro-Life: Saving the Lives of Unborn Children, Making Possible Their Descendants, and Helping Their ParentsThe choice is yours: will you choose life or will you choose death? When it comes to determining your stance on the abortion debate, this simple question exhibits your belief and understanding of what it means to let an unborn child live or die....
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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand DeathHow animals conceive of death and dying--and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the...
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Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying SaucersIt is readily acknowledged that our time has surpassed all epochs in history for the accumulation of technical knowledge, physical power over our environment, and economic might. It is less often pointed out, however, that our age has generated, and continues to generate, mythical...
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Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and CompassionThe inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bones--and it's past time to face it. The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapse--includes reflections, exercises, and prompts Climate collapse,...
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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable PlanetThis "eye-opening and essential" book (Bill Gates) will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems--and explains how we can solve them. It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that...
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