Science & Math

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Many scholars dream of writing The Great Book on the determinism of the past. A challenge is to write it for a popular audience while retaining the excitement of narrative history.

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This fantastic book owes a great debt to Carl Sagan’s original Cosmos series and bestselling book.

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Readers interested in anthropology and the cultural exploration of why humans have created the idea of home and what this idea means will enjoy John S.

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In The Paradox of Evolution, physiologist Stephen Rothman claims to expose a major and neglected problem in Darwin’s theory of evolution, and it is a paradox: reproduction is purposeful, f

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“a challenging and informative look at the complex functioning of life processes.”

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Both Stuart Lowe and Chris North are astronomers, and together they have created a brilliant collection of infographics in order to make complex ideas graspable through visual representations.

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XKCD comic artist Randall Munroe has created a book to explain how things work.

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“Rather than theological bickering or ‘irrelevant moral imperatives,’ Wathey reminds us of our humanism and our hubris.”

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Matt Parker is a comedian and a mathematician, a nerd who revels in the challenge of numbers and believes math can be recreational, and he is the best person possible to write a book about math to

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Curvology purports to take us on “a scientific journey into the evolution of women’s bodies and what that means for their brains.” Engagingly, David Bainbridge attempts to diffuse the unea

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relevant and soul-searching . . .”

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This well-researched book provides a fascinating glimpse into the biography of a pioneering author. It also sheds light on the origins of psychedelic America in the 60s and beyond.

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Kepler and the Universe by David Love is an interesting, informative, and exciting book—especially if the reader has an interest in science or wants to know more about the famed scientific

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One of the hallmarks of modern communication is the glossy, well-illustrated general science based histories of the origins of our species.

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“thoroughly researched and well-written journey through some of the key ideas in science and the real stories behind their development.”

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Science writer Lauren Redniss takes us on a most meditative, enchanting, and perilous journey via her prose and with her stunning artwork in Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Futu

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“If you are unfamiliar with the increasing impact of solar energy in America, Harness the Sun should quickly bring you up to speed.”

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While members of the US military may be the most visible of those with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)—with over 235,000 service members diagnosed with a TBI from 2000–2011—they are but one group impa

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Perhaps no other field of science and medicine has undergone such phenomenal change as the area of neuroscience.

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This book is disappointing.

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“We neglect our bodies because we underestimate their intelligence . . .”

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In the preface of The Proof and the Pudding, author Jim Henle informs the reader, “[t]he goal of the book is to explore the two and to reveal their essential similarity.

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Author of Single Digits Marc Chamberland provides his take on the significance of the single digits excluding zero (zero’s significance is so great it can fill a book all by itself).

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“Be proud of who you are and recognize that your unique combination of genetics, brain chemistry and personality could land you in the pages of history.”

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“Stephen Tomecek and Fred Harper together succeed in making Earth science fun.”

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