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Popular Science Books (Leisure Reading): 2021
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The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
by
Mark Solms
Call Number: BF311 .S65155 2021
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick
by
Russell A. Poldrack
Call Number: Electronic Book [BF335.P65 2021]
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
by
Scott A. Small
Call Number: BF376 .S56 2021
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by
Adam Grant
Call Number: BF441 .G693 2021 | Electronic Book
Amazon's Best Science Books
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by
Steven Pinker
Call Number: BF441 .P56 2021
Amazon's Best Science Books
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
by
Daniel Kahneman
Call Number: BF447 .K34 2021
The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart
by
Noreena Hertz
Call Number: BF575.L7 H47 2021
How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
by
Katy Milkman
Call Number: BF637.C4 M54 2021 | Electronic Book
Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
by
Shankar Vedantam
Call Number: BF637.D42 V43 2021
You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion and Why It Matters
by
Vanessa Bohns
Call Number: BF637.P4 B545 2021
What Are the Chances?: Why We Believe in Luck
by
Barbara Blatchley
Call Number: BF637.S8 B53 2021
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
by
Ethan Kross
Call Number: BF697.5.S47 K76 2021
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
Call Number: GF75 .K65 2021
Amazon's Best Science Books
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
by
Nichola Raihani
Call Number: GN360 .R35 2021
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
by
Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang
Call Number: HM743.F33 F74 2021
Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It
by
Gale M. Sinatra & Barbara K. Hofer
Call Number: Electronic Book [Q175.52.U6S56 2021]
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
by
Michael Wooldridge
Call Number: Q335 .W658 2021
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Godel
by
Stephen Budiansky
Call Number: QA29.G58 B83 2021
A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age
by
Andrew J. Stewart
Call Number: QA76.9.A25 S755 2021
What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
by
Ian Stewart
Call Number: QA93 .S744 2021
Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
by
Aubrey Clayton
Call Number: QA273.A35 C53 2021
In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem
by
Paul Nahin
Call Number: QA351 .N34 2021 | Electronic Book
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
by
Jordan Ellenberg
Call Number: QA446 .E45 2021
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
by
Michio Kaku
Call Number: QB981 .K133 2021
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
by
Paul Halpern
Call Number: QB991.B54 H35 2021
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
by
Frank Wilczek
Call Number: QC6.4.R42 W55 2021
A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many
by
Andrew Zangwill
Call Number: QC16.A53 Z3 2021 | Electronic Book
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
by
Charles Seife
Call Number: QC16.H33 S45 2021
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
by
Carlo Rovelli
Call Number: QC173.96 .R6813 2021
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
by
Paul Sen
Call Number: QC311 .S5118 2021
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
by
Timothy J. Jorgensen
Call Number: Electronic Book [QC527 .J66 2021]
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by
Bill Gates
Call Number: QC903 .G378 2021
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters
by
Steven E. Koonin
Call Number: QC903 .K66 2021
Amazon's Best Science Books
Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes
by
Chris Funk
Call Number: QC981.8.C53 F86 2021
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
by
Philip Ball
Call Number: QD466 .B26 2021
Scientist: E.O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
by
Richard Rhodes
Call Number: QH31.W64 R46 2021
Amazon's Best Science Books
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
by
Carl Zimmer
Call Number: QH311 .Z56 2021
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by
Walter Isaacson
Call Number: QH440 .I83 2021
Amazon's Best Science Books
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
by
Thor Hanson
Call Number: QH543 .H36 2021
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
by
Michelle Nijhuis
Call Number: QL81.7 .N55 2021
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
by
Dave Goulson
Call Number: QL496.4 .G68 2021
How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals About Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity
by
Douglas J. Futuyma
Call Number: QL677.3 .F88 2021
The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body is Changing the Way We Live
by
Daniel M. Davis
Call Number: QP34.5 .D38 2021
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
by
Howard Markel
Call Number: QP624.5.S78 M37 2021
Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
by
Philipp Dettmer
Call Number: QR181 .D47 2021
Amazon's Best Science Books
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
by
Alina Chan & Matt Ridley
Call Number: RA644.C67 C42 2021
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
by
Michael Moss
Call Number: Electronic Book [RA784.M67 2021]
When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
by
Antonio Zadra & Robert Stickgold
Call Number: RA786 .Z33 2021
An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
by
Abdul Ghaaliq Lalkhen
Call Number: RB127 .L276 2021
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
by
Roy Richard Grinker
Call Number: RC455 .G75 2021
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
by
Karl Deisseroth
Call Number: RC481 .D45 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
by
Suzanne Simard
Call Number: SD411.52.S56 A3 2021
Amazon's Best Science Books
Living With Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know
by
Ruth Aylett & Patricia A. Vargas
Call Number: TJ211.15 .A95 2021 | Electronic Book
Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
by
Alex Davies
Call Number: TL152.8 .D38 2021
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