Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
The Gene: An Intimate History
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future
Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old-And What It Means for Staying Young
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything

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    Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
    Lab Girl
    Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
    The Wright Brothers
    But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
    Ego Is the Enemy
    Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
    Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
    H is for Hawk
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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Cosmos
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    The Origin of Species
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The God Delusion
    The Grand Design
    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
    The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales


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    Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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