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. ...more

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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
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The Vanishing Earth: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction
The World Beneath Our Feet: The Hidden Life of Soil and Why It Matters to Us All
Biological War: A Scenario
Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown
An Expert Witness: The Story of Forensic Science in the Courtroom
Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World
Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate
Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World
  • Hawking by Graham Farmelo
    Hawking: His Life and Work

    Release date: Sep 29, 2026
    The authorized biography of a brilliant theoretical physicist and science communicator, featuring revelations from never-before-seen personal records, ...more
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    Giveaway dates: Aug 29 - Sep 28, 2026

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  • WHO GETS TO ADAPT? Environmental Elites, Blue Collar Communit... by Robert W Collin
    WHO GETS TO ADAPT? Environmental Elites, Blue Collar Communities, and the Growing Climate Divide - : How Privilege Shapes Environmental Protection and ... Education, Adaptation and Flourishing)

    Release date: Mar 20, 2026
    Giving away 10 signed, first-edition copies. Award-winning author. The last book in the climate adaptation trilogy.
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  • Emergence by Bob Burgin
    Emergence: How Our Twenty-Watt Brains Unlocked Intelligence Beyond Biology

    Release date: Sep 08, 2026
    The most energy-efficient learning engine ever created, the human brain, runs on only twenty watts of power. What happens when you plug intelligence i ...more
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    Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
    Raising Hare: A Memoir
    Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse, #5)
    The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
    Elon Musk
    Abundance
    What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
    Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
    The Polymorph
    Playground
    The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
    Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
    The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
    Livesuit (The Captive's War, #1.5)
    Zero-Sum Mindset by Rainer ZitelmannMindset by Carol S. DweckThe CodeBreaker Mindset by Chitra NawbattThe 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil BloomHidden Potential by Adam M. Grant
    Growth Mindset
    465 books — 543 voters
    Neuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickReady Player One by Ernest ClineCount Zero by William Gibson
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    Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittBorn To Rise by Lorna  BlakeA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonLean In by Sheryl SandbergFirst Time Dad by James        Macdonald
    Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
    4,661 books — 3,509 voters
    Outliers by Malcolm GladwellFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittThe Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichBlink by Malcolm Gladwell
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    A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauNature Calls Outside My Window, A Collection of Poems and Sto... by Suzanne  CottrellA Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonDesert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
    Best Nature Books
    1,175 books — 1,004 voters
    An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannQuiet by Susan Cain
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    A Brief History of Time
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    The Selfish Gene
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Cosmos
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    The Origin of Species
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
    The Gene: An Intimate History
    "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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