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#2
Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
  • Jill Fredston
00 reads
#3
Heat
Heat
  • Bill Streever
00 reads
#4
Cover 6

Einstein's Refrigerator and Other Stories from the Flip Side of History

Einstein's Refrigerator and Other Stories from the Flip Side of History
  • Steve Silverman
31 read
#5
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
  • Simon Singh
4.1475 reads
#6
What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen
What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen
  • Robert L. Wolke
  • Marlene Parrish
41 read
#7
Cover 3

World in the Balance

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
  • Robert P. Crease
31 read
#8
Earthquake Storms
Earthquake Storms
  • John Dvorak
01 read
#9
The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
  • Hannah Nordhaus
42 reads
#10
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
  • Sam Kean
46 reads
#11
Collapse
Collapse
  • Jared Diamond
3.8979 reads
#12
The Story of Earth
The Story of Earth
  • Robert M. Hazen
3.52 reads
#13
The Pioneer Detectives
The Pioneer Detectives
  • Konstantin Kakaes
51 read
#14
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
  • John McWhorter
3.8913 reads
#15
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
  • Sean Carroll
36 reads
#16
Cover 2

Automate this

Automate this : how algorithms came to rule our world
  • Christopher Steiner
3.86 reads
#17
The Pluto Files
The Pluto Files
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
3.4213 reads
#18
Atomic Accidents : A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Atomic Accidents : A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
  • James Mahaffey
4.336 reads
#19
The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test
  • Jon Ronson
3.71118 reads
#20
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Mary Roach
3.89268 reads
#21
Proof: The Science of Booze
Proof: The Science of Booze
  • Adam Rogers
3.9214 reads
#22
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
  • Jonathan Haidt
4.345 reads
#23
Blink
Blink
  • Malcolm Gladwell
3.78390 reads
#24
Garbage Land
Garbage Land
  • Elizabeth Royte
01 read
#25
Obsessive Genius
Obsessive Genius
  • Barbara Goldsmith
00 reads
#26
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
  • Deborah Blum
4.0831 reads
#27
Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead
Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead
  • Lydia Denworth
41 read
#28
Newton and the Counterfeiter
Newton and the Counterfeiter
  • Thomas Levenson
3.836 reads
#29
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
  • Dava Sobel
4.0694 reads
#30
Four fish : the future of the last wild food
Four fish : the future of the last wild food
  • Paul Greenberg
4.52 reads
#31
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
  • Robert Whitaker
00 reads
#32
L'âge de l'empathie
L'âge de l'empathie
  • Frans de Waal
31 read
#33
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Rebecca Skloot
4.2327 reads
#34
The Wave
The Wave
  • Susan Casey
3.86 reads
#35
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
  • Philip Alcabes
00 reads
#36
Zoo story
Zoo story
  • French, Thomas
42 reads
#37
This book is overdue!
This book is overdue!
  • Marilyn Johnson
2.673 reads
#38
Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today
  • David P. Clark
00 reads
#39
The Science of Fear
The Science of Fear
  • Daniel Gardner
01 read
#40
Nerve
Nerve
  • Taylor Clark
31 read
#41
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.23129 reads
#42
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
  • Jonathan Weiner
4.333 reads
#43
Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease: From Simple Traits, to Complex Traits, to Personalized Medicine
Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease: From Simple Traits, to Complex Traits, to Personalized Medicine
  • Nicholas Wright Gillham
31 read
#44
Moby-Duck
Moby-Duck
  • Donovan Hohn
3.53 reads
#45
The Disappearing Spoon
The Disappearing Spoon
  • Sam Kean
3.9364 reads
#46
The Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire
  • Michael Pollan
4.0343 reads
#47
Wicked Bugs
Wicked Bugs
  • Amy Stewart
  • Coleen Marlo
4.148 reads
#48
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
  • Randy O. Frost
  • Gail Steketee
3.812 reads
#49
What's eating you? People and Parasites
What's eating you? People and Parasites
  • Kaplan, Eugene H.
00 reads
#50
Cover 4

The Viral Storm

The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
  • Nathan Wolfe
32 reads
#51
Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling
Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling
  • Abrahm Lustgarten
21 read
#52
Submerged
Submerged
  • Daniel Lenihan
00 reads
#53
Martian summer
Martian summer
  • Andrew Kessler
21 read
#54
The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest
The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest
  • Susan Dworkin
00 reads
#55
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World From Your Airplane Window
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World From Your Airplane Window
  • Brian Clegg
00 reads
#56
The fatal strain
The fatal strain
  • Alan Sipress
00 reads
#57
Breasts a natural and unnatural history
Breasts a natural and unnatural history
  • Florence Williams
42 reads
#58
Rabid
Rabid
  • Bill Wasik
  • Monica Murphy
3.5316 reads
#59
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Oliver Sacks
3.91241 reads
#60
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
  • Atul Gawande
3.8140 reads
#61
The violinist's thumb
The violinist's thumb
  • Sam Kean
3.9114 reads
#62
Chasing Venus
Chasing Venus
  • Andrea Wulf
33 reads
#63
The Ice Balloon
The Ice Balloon
  • Alec Wilkinson
41 read
#64
Crashes, crises, and calamities
Crashes, crises, and calamities
  • Len Fisher
00 reads
#65
Defining the Wind
Defining the Wind
  • Scott Huler
41 read
#66
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
  • Jeff Benedict
4.52 reads
#67
Our Inner Ape
Our Inner Ape
  • Frans de Waal
00 reads
#68
Command and Control
Command and Control
  • Eric Schlosser
427 reads
#69
Stuff Matters
Stuff Matters
  • Mark Miodownik
4.0938 reads
#70
Rust: The Longest War
Rust: The Longest War
  • Jonathan Waldman
41 read
#71
Zero
Zero
  • Charles Seife
3.5717 reads
#72
The million death quake
The million death quake
  • Roger Musson
00 reads
#73
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
  • Rob Manning
  • William L. Simon
43 reads
#74
Thin Ice
Thin Ice
  • Mark Bowen
01 read
#75
The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters
The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters
  • Bruce Parker
00 reads
#76
Island on Fire
Island on Fire
  • Alexandra Witze
  • Jeff Kanipe
51 read
#77
The Boiling River
The Boiling River
  • Andrés Ruzo
41 read
#78
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
  • Frans de Waal
3.9524 reads
#79
Cover 2

The Earth Moved

The Earth Moved
  • Amy Stewart
00 reads
#80
Atomic Adventures : Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
Atomic Adventures : Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science
  • James Mahaffey
01 read
#81
The History of Science: 1700-1900
The History of Science: 1700-1900
  • Frederick Gregory
01 read
#82
The Hunt for Vulcan : . . . and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
The Hunt for Vulcan : . . . and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
  • Thomas Levenson
3.674 reads
#83
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
  • John McWhorter
4.210 reads
#84
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
  • Amy Stewart
3.6722 reads
#85
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
  • Sam Kean
4.2210 reads
#86
Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness
Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness
  • Melissa Dahl
4.52 reads
#87
What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
  • Gregory Berns
3.53 reads
#88
Death's Acre
Death's Acre
  • William M. Bass
  • Jon Jefferson
411 reads
#89
Spillover: Animal Infection and the Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infection and the Human Pandemic
  • David Quammen
4.4718 reads
#90
Deep
Deep
  • James Nestor
4.148 reads
#91
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
  • Amanda Ripley
4.2316 reads
#92
Chasing New Horizons: Inside Humankind's First Mission to Pluto
Chasing New Horizons: Inside Humankind's First Mission to Pluto
  • Alan Stern
  • David Grinspoon
51 read
#93
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Bill Bryson
4.23454 reads
#94
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
  • Jim Bell
4.754 reads
#95
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
  • Julie Rehmeyer
01 read
#96
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
  • Caitlin Doughty
4.24157 reads
#97
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
  • Caitlin Doughty
4.3691 reads
#98
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
  • Henry Fountain
51 read