Space & Astronomy
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Featured Books
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Walter Isaacson
His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Steve Brusatte
A New History of a Lost World. William Morrow, 2018.
Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air. Random House, 2016.
Charles Fishman
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Scott D. Sampson
The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
New Arrivals
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Deborah Blum
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.
Lydia Kang
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Sam Kean
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Kirk Wallace Johnson
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Books, 2018.
Kassia St. Clair
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
Randall Munroe
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Adam Higginbotham
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
David Epstein
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Riverhead Books, 2019.
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Charles Fishman
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Richard Dawkins
The Long Reach of the Gene. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Carlo Rovelli
The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Penguin, 2016.
Laura Lee
How the Weather Has Changed History. HarperCollins, 2006.
Jordan Goldmeier
How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning. Wiley, 2021.
Stuart Firestein
How It Drives Science. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Nancy C. Andreasen
The Science of Genius. Plume, 2006.
Wallace J. Nichols
The Surprising Science that Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do. Little, Brown Spark. 2014.
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Walter Isaacson
His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Steve Brusatte
A New History of a Lost World. William Morrow, 2018.
Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air. Random House, 2016.
Charles Fishman
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Scott D. Sampson
The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Chris Hadfield
What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything. Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Vaclav Smil
Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate. AEI Press, 2010.
Richard Dawkins
How We Know What’s Really True. Free Press, 2011.
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