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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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It DoesThough at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the order at...
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The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate CrisisA cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity, from two of the architects of the 2015 Paris Agreement. - "One of the most inspiring books I've ever read." --Yuval HarariChristiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible...
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How Biology WorksDiscover everything you need to know about biology, with the simplest most visual guide to the science of life. How do vaccines work? What is special about stem cells? How did we evolve from bacteria? The science of life can be dauntingly complex, and...
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His GirlOn Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien adopted Wesley, a baby barn owl with an injured wing who could not have survived in the wild. Over the next nineteen years, O'Brien studied Wesley's strange habits with both a tender heart and a scientist's eye--and...
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National Geographic Birding Basics: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Great Bird-WatchingTargeted to beginners and beyond, National Geographic's fun, inspiring guide to the art, craft, and science of bird-watching combines practical know-how and expert knowledge. Browsable and bursting with helpful illustrations and photographs, Birding Basics offers new ideas for when, where, and how to get...
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The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys ThinkFrom the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Female Brain, here is the eagerly awaited follow-up book that demystifies the puzzling male brain.Dr. Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior,...
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Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and MeaningMeeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world...
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Echoes of Our Origins: Baboons, Humans, and NatureThe amazing chronicle of a primate scientist's fifty-year journey studying baboons--and what her findings can tell us about primates, resilience, and human coexistence.In 1972, renowned anthropologist Shirley C. Strum traveled to Kenya to study the origins of human aggression through observing baboons. What Dr....
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The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Communicating with Ros Atkins'**'A great read for polishing your communication skills' FORBES'For all those who want their audiences to...
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the GeneAuthor: Richard DawkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 11/01/2016Pages: 440Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.40dISBN: 9780198788911
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The California Naturalist Handbook, Second EditionThe go-to guide to California's natural history, now updated with fresh insights on stewardship for a changing climate and diverse naturalist perspectives.The California Naturalist Handbook offers a fun, science-based introduction to California's natural history, emphasizing observation, discovery, communication, and stewardship. This accessible guidebook explores...
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50 Things to See with a Small Telescope (Southern Hemisphere Edition)A special edition for aspiring astronomers living south of the equator. This special edition of 50 Things to See with a Small Telescope explores the planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae observed from all over the southern hemisphere. Not only does this book demonstrate how...
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Goats in America: A Cultural HistoryThe humble goat has played a surprising and important role throughout the history of the United States. Despite this, goats are often overlooked by many Americans, even if they have strong opinions about these complex creatures. In Goats in America Tami Parr calls attention...
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Rising Waters: Reports from Across a Rapidly Warming WorldFrom the historic streets of Charleston, where flooding tides now rise with alarming frequency, Pulitzer Prize finalist Tony Bartelme takes readers deep into the heart of the climate crisis. With the eye of an investigative reporter and the soul of a storyteller, Bartelme makes...
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Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's HeartlandTo know a place deeply means to understand it on several levels, layered almost as if from bedrock to topsoil. Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland takes readers on a journey across all twelve Midwest states to natural settings that...
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Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex LifeThe Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The...
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Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the MoonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers. "Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail...
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Niagara Falls: Survivor of the Ice Age: The Natural History of the Niagara River and its GorgeThe Natural History of the Niagara River and its GorgeAuthor: Paul a. YoungPublisher: Rock / Paper / Safety ScissorsPublished: 01/04/2017Pages: 62Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.31dISBN: 9780997799675
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Night Sky Guide 2026: North America's Skies Month by Month from the Royal Astronomical Society of CanadaAuthor: Nicole MortillaroPublisher: Firefly BooksPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.22h x 6.04w x 0.39dISBN: 9780228105862About the Author Nicole Mortillaro is an avid amateur astronomer, author, editor, Senior Science Reporter for CBC News and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society...
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great ConnectorsWINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING "Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture." --Science Friday The author...
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