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 Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our WorldHow carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balanceEvery year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. But CO2 isn't merely the by-product of burning fossil fuels--it...
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The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--And a Search for Relief"Required reading for anyone with a head."--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz"[The Headache] weaves together history, biology, a survey of current research, testimony from patients, and an agonizing account of Zeller's own suffering. . . If there's a lesson...
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How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence"This is essential reading for parents." -- Dr. Vivek Murthy, former U.S. Surgeon GeneralGreatly expanding his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter Matt Richtel delivers a groundbreaking investigation into adolescence, the pivotal life stage undergoing...
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Something in the Woods Loves YouAn inspiring memoir that explores nature's crucial role in our emotional and mental health, and a "poignant meditation on surviving the darkest recesses of human nature" (The Marginalian). Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life...
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Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and SpiritNATIONAL BESTSELLER Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer). In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have...
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday LifeFrom one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which...
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The Craft of Research, Fifth EditionA thoroughly updated edition of a beloved classic that has guided generations of researchers in conducting effective and meaningful research. With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level--from high-school...
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Insectopolis: A Natural HistoryThis visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity's connection to them throughout the ages. Kuper's thrilling visual feast layers history and science, color and design,...
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Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your TrashA globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage...
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Astrophysics for People in a HurryWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have...
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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly ScienceA brilliant new voice in science writing--"witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best" (Mary Roach)--shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the...
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"Riveting . . . Blake's deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book that none of us can afford to miss."--The Washington Post A gripping investigation of the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of...
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the ForestNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery "Finding the Mother Tree reminds...
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital AgeFrom the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and connection A Most Anticipated Book from The New York Times and more! -...
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the LawWhat's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary...
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We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our ClimateFrom the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system. Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe...
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All LifePULITZER PRIZE WINNER - An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth "[An] engaging and thought-provoking book, one focused on the theatrical politics and often deeply troubling science that shape our definitions of...
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On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It MattersFrom the bestselling author of Why We Swim comes a mind-expanding exploration of muscle that will change the way you think about what moves us through the world. "Remarkable . . . A singular book about the true meanings of strength and flexibility, about...
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Merlin's Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: A Traveler's Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and EvA USA Today bestseller!The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.In Neil deGrasse Tyson's delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions...
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Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal CollapseA NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB'S MUST-READ BOOK - A radical retelling of human history through the cycle of societal collapse--"a Cassandra-like warning about the path today's oligarchs have set [and] a sweeping and dire vision of a world on the brink." (Publishers Weekly, starred...
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