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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
by
Vivek H. Murthy
Call Number: BF575.L7 M88 2020
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
by
Daniel Susskind
Call Number: HD6331 .S86 2020
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop
by
Adam Kucharski
Call Number: HM1033 .K83 2020
Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont
by
Robert Bilott
Call Number: KF229.E37 B55 2020
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
by
Stuart Ritchie
Call Number: Q172.5.E77 R58 2020
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
by
Michael Strevens
Call Number: Q175 .S865 2020
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
by
Brian Christian
Call Number: Q334.7 .C47 2020
Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians
by
Alfred S. Posamentier & Christian Spreitzer
Call Number: Electronic Book [QA28 .P67 2020]
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
by
Ben Buchanan
Call Number: QA76.9.A25 B823 2020
Cryptography: The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters
by
Keith Martin
Call Number: QA76.9.A25 M3735 2020
Galileo and the Science Deniers
by
Mario Livio
Call Number: QB36.G2 L658 2020
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
by
Brian Greene
Call Number: QB981 .G7434 2020
The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
by
David Lindley
Call Number: QC7 .L56 2020
The World According to Physics
by
Jim Al-Khalili
Call Number: Electronic Book [QC24.5.A44 2020]
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches From an Uncertain World
by
David Kaiser
Call Number: QC173.98 .K358 2020
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Quantum Reality
by
Jim Baggott
Call Number: Electronic Book [QC174.12 .B347 2020]
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
by
Donald R. Prothero
Call Number: Electronic Book [QH362.P76 2020]
Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
by
Kevin Davies
Call Number: QH438.7 .D39 2020
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures
by
Merlin Sheldrake
Call Number: QK603 .S425 2020
Amazon's Best Science Books
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
by
Jennifer Ackerman
Call Number: Electronic Book [QL698.3.A284 2020]
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
by
Matthew Cobb
Call Number: QP353 .C63 2020
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
by
David Badre
Call Number: Electronic Book [QP360.5.B35 2020]
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
by
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Call Number: QP376 .B357 2020
Amazon's Best Science Books
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
by
Muhammad H. Zaman
Call Number: QR177 .Z36 2020
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
by
Katherine E. Standefer
Call Number: R856.6 .S63 2020
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
by
Nicholas A. Christakis
Call Number: RA644.C67 C57 2020
Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One
by
Debora MacKenzie
Call Number: RA644.C67 M33 2020
The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
by
Athena Aktipis
Call Number: Electronic Book [RC263.A447 2020]
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
by
Ainissa Ramirez
Call Number: TA403.2 .R36 2020
Amazon's Best Science Books
Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It
by
Erin Brockovich
Call Number: TD223 .B76 2020
Sam: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
by
Jonathan Waldman
Call Number: TJ211.15 .W35 2020
How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI
by
Mark H. Lee
Call Number: TJ211.35 .L43 2020 | Electronic Book
What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
by
Julie Shah
Call Number: TJ211.49 .M35 2020
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