Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition – in crows, …
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Science Books
Looking for good science books? Here’s our list of the best science books that can help you broaden your knowledge, and improve your skills.
We’ve curated this reading list to include a range of perspectives and science topics, including mathematics, physics, popular science, the natural world, reading, and writing.
Beyond Words
I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the …
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Enlightenment Now
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are …
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Factfulness
When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population …
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How Not to Be Wrong
The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg …
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How to Read a Book
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, …
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On Writing Well
On Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the …
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Salt
Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long …
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Sapiens
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution – a #1 international bestseller – that …
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein’s general relativity, quantum …
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Several Short Sentences About Writing
An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for …
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the …
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The Hidden Life of Trees
Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben …
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The Invention of Nature
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever …
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The Lessons of History
In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and …
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The Sixth Extinction
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass …
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The Wright Brothers
The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize – the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the …
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Tribe
From the author of The Perfect Storm and War comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from …
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