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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How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd NiteIn the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost WorldTHE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. A New York Times Bestseller - Goodreads Choice Awards WINNER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Smithsonian, NPR Science Friday, The...
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare: Volume 1PopularMechanics.com selection for one of The Best DIY and Home Improvement Books of 2009 We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies--binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils,...
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Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing: Why Science is Looking to the Past for the Future of MedicineGAIL LYNN was first exposed to sound and light healing while working in the film industry as an executive producer for a movie about Elvis Presley called Protecting the King. When Gail's doctor diagnosed her with severe cardiovascular stress at the young age of...
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human LandscapeA beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence "[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new appreciation of life, 'all the stranger and more valuable...
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The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World, Second EditionAn up-to-date, beautifully illustrated, and beloved guide to six hundred of the world's most fascinating frogs. With almost nine thousand known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behaviors. A single gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the Golden...
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What Is Life?: Evolution as ComputationWhat life is, and how its essence can be understood as computation that grows more complex over time in symbiotic relationships. In 1944, quantum mechanics pioneer Erwin Schrödinger wrote a slim but influential volume, What Is Life?, posing the primary question that rendered biology...
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Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate JusticeScientists around the world rise up for climate and ecological justice In April 2022, hundreds of scientists rose in civil disobedience, breaking the law in more than twenty-eight countries. Risking arrest, they glued their hands to roads, blocked government and corporate buildings, and chained...
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern SurgeryThe vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th-century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of...
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Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles & AmphibiansPETERSON: The best-selling field guides of all time This is the most comprehensive and trusted guide to reptiles and amphibians of western North America. The new edition retains the realistic and accurate paintings by Robert Stebbins and includes 160 color photographs for additional detail....
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180 Days(tm) Geography for Fourth Grade: Practice, Assess, DiagnoseHelp fourth grade students improve their geography skills with fun and effective daily practice activities.180 Days(TM) Geography for Fourth Grade Focuses on a new topic each week covering map skills, applying information and data, and connecting what was learned Builds students' confidence in geography...
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Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and MoreDive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 million years Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More examines the anatomy, behavior, diversity, lifestyle, and evolutionary rise of creatures who conquered the seas for 150 million years...
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Starlore of the Constellations: The Astronomy, Myth and Symbolism of the Night SkyIMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE STORIES OF THE SKY Discover the mysteries of celestial mythology with this comprehensive introduction to the constellations and the stars that comprise them. This fascinating practical guide unveils the myths, legends and symbolic significance that the stars have assumed in...
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A Sense of Space: A Local's Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious PlacesFrom global navigation to natal charts to memory palaces and beyond, a thrilling journey through humanity's visualization of new spaces. When you give directions, do you tell someone to go straight ahead and turn left? Or do you suggest that they head north before...
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Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineFrom the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams--"an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science" (The New York Times Book Review). - The basis for the public television series SEARCHING with Alan Lightman.As a physicist, Alan Lightman...
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The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your SofaThe past, present, and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. "Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Cat's Meow is a readable and informed exploration of the wildcat that lurks within Fluffy." --The Washington...
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY - The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became...
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Introduction to SuperconductivityWell known for its accessibility to graduate students and experimental physicists, this volume emphasizes physical arguments and minimizes theoretical formalism. The second edition of this classic text features revisions by the author that improve its user-friendly qualities, and an introductory survey of latter-day developments...
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Virginia Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Old DominionFrom the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap, Virginia stretches across five distinct regions, each home to unique and amazing geology. In the Coastal Plain's wedge of fossil-rich sediments, a meteor impact crater--the sixth largest on Earth--helped determine the location of Chesapeake Bay. The Piedmont...
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Abduction: Human Encounters with AliensA Harvard psychiatrist, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder, presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than sixty cases he has investigated and examines the implications for our identity as a species. These mesmerizing and thought-provoking stories of alien encounters...
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