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 Mind-Body ProblemAn introduction to the mind-body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of modern and contemporary philosophy: the mind-body problem. The brain is physical. If the mind is physical,...
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Water: A Natural HistoryAn environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource. Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers;...
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Voice Leading: The Science behind a Musical ArtAn accessible scientific explanation for the traditional rules of voice leading, including an account of why listeners find some musical textures more pleasing than others.Voice leading is the musical art of combining sounds over time. In this book, David Huron offers an accessible account...
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Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next 50 YearsA wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty years--whether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially...
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The New Science of CitiesA proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in...
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Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our UniverA heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in between The overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70...
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The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden GeometryA Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape--the Calabi-Yau manifold--that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. "An unexpectedly intimate look into a highly accomplished man, his colleagues and friends, the development of a new field of geometric...
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful SoundsA delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune. Music plays a hugely important role in our emotional, intellectual, and even physical lives. It impacts the ways we work,...
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Energy in Nature and SocietyA comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthesis to our fossil fuelled civilization and its environmental consequences.Energy in Nature and Society is a systematic and exhaustive analysis of all the major energy sources,...
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The Dawn of Human CultureA bold new theory on what sparked the big bang of human cultureThe abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution. This compelling book introduces a bold new theory on this...
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The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It EnduresA New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given to the question of whether this universal human...
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Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of EverythingNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she...
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No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies"The most honest book about climate change yet." --The Atlantic "The Infinite Jest of climate books." --The Baffler An eye-opening look at the consequences of coal mining and oil and natural gas production--the second of a two volume work by award-winning author William T....
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The Scientific Revolution"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now updated with a new bibliographic...
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins"Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged."-From Lucy's LegacyIn his New York...
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The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and VaporProfessor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how changes in water's...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human CadaversFor two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud...
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Non-Goals: What to Look For When You're Looking At SoccerHow do you fall in love with a game that ends in a draw 20% of the time? A game in which goals happen on only 10% of all shots and shots happen on only 11% of all possessions?To truly love soccer, you need...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. "A masterpiece of science writing." --Washington PostA New York Times Bestseller - Goodreads Choice Awards Winner - A BEST BOOK OF...
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Über die Entstehung der Arten im Thier- und Pflanzen-Reich durch natürliche ZüchtungÜber die Entstehung der Arten im Thier- und Pflanzen-Reich durch natürliche ZüchtungDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der Buchausgabe von 1863 so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Es werden teils stark veraltete Formen verwendet (z.B. mittlem statt mittlerem; gyptier statt...
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