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Science

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
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#2
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Elizabeth Kolbert
4.04132 reads
#3
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  • Oliver Sacks
3.7265 reads
#4
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • Richard Rhodes
4.4752 reads
#5
Wonderful life
Wonderful life
  • Stephen Jay Gould
4.8312 reads
#6
Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars
  • Mary Roach
4.02133 reads
#7
The River of Consciousness
The River of Consciousness
  • Oliver Sacks
3.8812 reads
#8
Lake Views
Lake Views
  • Steven Weinberg
00 reads
#9
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
  • Oliver Sacks
4.0736 reads
#10
The Wizard and the Prophet
The Wizard and the Prophet
  • Charles C. Mann
4.0326 reads
#11
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Kai Bird
  • Martin J. Sherwin
4.1897 reads
#12
Oaxaca Journal
Oaxaca Journal
  • Oliver Sacks
4.336 reads
#13
The Scientists
The Scientists
  • John Gribbin
02 reads
#14
Ever Since Darwin
Ever Since Darwin
  • Stephen Jay Gould
4.2912 reads
#15
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
  • Steven Weinberg
3.756 reads
#16
Scale
Scale
  • Geoffrey B. West
4.118 reads
#17
The Galapagos
The Galapagos
  • Henry Nicholls
51 read
#18
The First War of Physics
The First War of Physics
  • Jim Baggott
4.52 reads
#19
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
  • Michael J. Benton
3.52 reads
#20
Third Thoughts
Third Thoughts
  • Steven Weinberg
51 read
#21
The Scientist as Rebel
The Scientist as Rebel
  • Freeman Dyson
4.335 reads
#22
The Alchemy of Air
The Alchemy of Air
  • Thomas Hager
4.57 reads
#23
Cover 6

Written in Stone

Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
  • Brian Switek
00 reads
#24
Fossils: The History of Life
Fossils: The History of Life
  • Richard Fortey
00 reads
#25
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  • Mary Roach
3.9319 reads
#26
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
  • Richard Holmes
3.5612 reads
#27
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
4.513 reads
#28
Galileo's Middle Finger
Galileo's Middle Finger
  • Alice Domurat Dreger
02 reads
#29
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  • Michael Pollan
4.13194 reads
#30
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
  • Lindsey Fitzharris
4.2243 reads
#31
Cover 5

The Curve Of Binding Energy

The Curve Of Binding Energy
  • John McPhee
00 reads
#32
The Life and Death of Planet Earth
The Life and Death of Planet Earth
  • Peter D. Ward
  • Donald Brownlee
00 reads
#33
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
  • Walter Álvarez
4.52 reads
#34
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
  • Steven Johnson
3.9184 reads
#35
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
  • Dan Egan
3.912 reads
#36
Get Well Soon
Get Well Soon
  • Jennifer Wright
4.1832 reads
#37
Eating Stone
Eating Stone
  • Ellen Meloy
00 reads
#38
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
  • Martin Gardner
44 reads
#39
Cover 5

Fixing My Gaze

Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
  • Susan R. Barry
00 reads
#40
Letters to a Young Scientist
Letters to a Young Scientist
  • Edward O. Wilson
32 reads
#41
The Second Creation
The Second Creation
  • Robert P. Crease
  • Charles C. Mann
00 reads
#42
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
  • Susan Quinn
31 read
#43
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
  • Alan W. Hirshfeld
31 read
#44
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Yuval Noah Harari
4.221,254 reads
#45
The Invention of Nature
The Invention of Nature
  • Andrea Wulf
4.0743 reads
#46
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
  • Kevin Simler
  • Robin Hanson
3.8139 reads
#47
The Swerve
The Swerve
  • Stephen Greenblatt
3.6841 reads
#48
The Ancestor's Tale
The Ancestor's Tale
  • Yan Wong
  • Richard Dawkins
4.2229 reads
#49
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
  • Steven Weinberg
3.8112 reads
#50
Oranges
Oranges
  • John McPhee
3.836 reads
#51
The Man Who Tasted Shapes
The Man Who Tasted Shapes
  • Richard E. Cytowic
21 read
#52
Hallucinations
Hallucinations
  • Oliver Sacks
3.5549 reads
#53
Imagine
Imagine
  • Jonah Lehrer
3.3618 reads
#54
The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief
  • Susan Orlean
4.0519 reads
#55
The Road to Reality
The Road to Reality
  • Roger Penrose
39 reads
#56
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
  • Graham Farmelo
4.119 reads
#57
The Emperor's New Mind
The Emperor's New Mind
  • Roger Penrose
3.9114 reads
#58
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
  • James Gleick
3.7516 reads
#59
Trilobite
Trilobite
  • Richard Fortey
41 read
#60
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
  • Shelley Emling
3.52 reads
#61
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
  • Richard Fortey
52 reads
#62
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world
  • Nick Lane
3.754 reads
#63
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Oliver Sacks
3.9279 reads
#64
The Mind's Eye
The Mind's Eye
  • Oliver Sacks
420 reads
#65
Cooked
Cooked
  • Michael Pollan
4.0338 reads
#66
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
  • Simon Winchester
3.5524 reads
#67
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  • Mary Roach
3.93109 reads
#68
Tulipomania
Tulipomania
  • Mike Dash
3.54 reads
#69
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
  • Tom Vanderbilt
3.7528 reads
#70
Rats
Rats
  • Robert Sullivan
4.298 reads
#71
Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.6499 reads
#72
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
  • Stephen Hawking
3.9321 reads
#73
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
  • Kitty Ferguson
00 reads
#74
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
  • Donald Knuth
31 read
#75
The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test
  • Jon Ronson
3.74139 reads
#76
Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games
  • James P. Carse
3.2750 reads
#77
Cognitive Gadgets
Cognitive Gadgets
  • Cecilia Heyes
00 reads
#78
Energy and Civilization: A History
Energy and Civilization: A History
  • Vaclav Smil
3.6416 reads
#79
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
  • John Hemming
01 read
#80
A Cultural History of Physics
A Cultural History of Physics
  • Karoly Simonyi
00 reads
#81
Cover 4

Big Lonely Doug

Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees
  • Harley Rustad
00 reads
#82
On Color
On Color
  • David Scott Kastan
  • Stephen Farthing
31 read
#83
The Computer and the Brain
The Computer and the Brain
  • John von Neumann
3.54 reads
#84
Phantoms in the Brain
Phantoms in the Brain
  • V. S. Ramachandran
4.4531 reads
#85
Cover 3

On Tycho's Island

On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and his Assistants, 1570–1601
  • John Robert Christianson
41 read
#86
Alan Turing: the enigma
Alan Turing: the enigma
  • Andrew Hodges
3.8139 reads
#87
Passionate minds
Passionate minds
  • David Bodanis
51 read
#88
Cover 8

Spying on Whales

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
  • Nick Pyenson
4.52 reads
#89
The Enigma of Reason
The Enigma of Reason
  • Hugo Mercier
  • Dan Sperber
43 reads
#90
Mary Somerville and the World of Science
Mary Somerville and the World of Science
  • Allan Chapman
00 reads
#91
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
  • Ryan North
4.1947 reads
#92
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
4.06123 reads
#93
Annals of the Former World
Annals of the Former World
  • John McPhee
4.67 reads
#94
Uranium
Uranium
  • Tom Zoellner
3.54 reads
#95
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
  • Brian Christian
  • Tom Griffiths
4.02144 reads
#96
Disturbing the Universe
Disturbing the Universe
  • Freeman Dyson
03 reads
#97
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
  • Susannah Cahalan
4.02154 reads
#98
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
  • Robert M. Sapolsky
4.1821 reads
#99
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
  • Stephen Brusatte
4.17113 reads
#100
Coming into the Country
Coming into the Country
  • John McPhee
4.586 reads
#101
The Map of Knowledge
The Map of Knowledge
  • Violet Moller
32 reads