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Science And Engineering

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  • 272 Books
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Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
The Exquisite Machine
Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
Limits of the Numerical
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons
Breathless
Who We Are and How We Got Here
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
Her Hidden Genius
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A Sense of Self

Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships
Virology
Language vs. Reality
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
The Altruistic Urge: Why We’re Driven to Help Others
Varieties of Atheism in Science
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
The Invention of Air
Uranium
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
Between Us
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The Man Who Tasted Words

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Musical Instrument Design

Pipe Dreams
Digging Deep: How Science Unearths Puzzles from the Past
Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Plastic Fantastic
Napoleon's Buttons
Lives in Ruins: Archeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
Obsessive Genius
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The Earth Moved

Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Parasite rex inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
A Philosopher Looks at Science
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
The Psychopath Test
Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How it Works
Brain storms
The Man Who Lost his Language: A Case of Aphasia
Gender and Our Brains
The Secret Life of Sleep
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The Man with the Electrified Brain

Incognito
A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
The Twenty-Four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives
A Monk and Two Peas : The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics
Wicked Bugs
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics
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The Matter of Everything

When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn
Impact
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
The Order of Time
Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
Before the Big Bang
This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality
Genesis
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
The Other Dark Matter
The Code Breaker
Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship and Mating Tell Us about Human Relationships
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Gene
Spying on Whales
The Tangled Tree
Lost in Math
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
Microcosm
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