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Popular Science Books (Leisure Reading): 2023
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
by
Adam Grant
Call Number: BF503 .G736 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
by
Dacher Keltner
Call Number: BF575.A9 K45 2023
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It
by
Daniel Simons & Christopher Chabris
Call Number: BF637.D42 S55 2023
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
by
Dan Ariely
Call Number: BF773 .A75 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
by
Robert M. Sapolsky
Call Number: BJ1461 .S325 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
How Data Happened: A History From the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
by
Chris Wiggins & Matthew L. Jones
Call Number: HA19 .W54 2023
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
by
Michael Lewis
Call Number: HC79.W4 G65 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
Elon Musk
by
Walter Isaacson
Call Number: HC102.5.M8 I83 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
by
John D. Skrentny
Call Number: HD5724 .S58 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents
by
Jean M. Twenge
Call Number: HM721 .T94 2023
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
by
Ben Mezrich
Call Number: HM743.T95 M49 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
by
Jake Bittle
Call Number: HV640 .B55 2023
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security
by
Michael G. McLaughlin & William J. Holstein
Call Number: HV6773.15.C97 H657 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science
by
Athene Donald
Call Number: Electronic Book [Q130 .D66 2023]
Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
by
Lisa M. P. Munoz
Call Number: Q130 .M86 2023 (STEM Café Collection) | Electronic Book
Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement
by
Cassidy R. Sugimoto & Vincent Lariviere
Call Number: Electronic Book [Q130 .S84 2023]
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
by
Kate Zernike
Call Number: Q130 .Z47 2023
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
Why We Teach Science: And Why We Should
by
John L. Rudolph
Call Number: Electronic Book [Q183.3.A1 R83 2023]
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines
by
Joy Buolamwini
Call Number: Q334.7 .B86 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
by
Michio Kaku
Call Number: QA76.889 .K36 2023
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal
by
David K. Love
Call Number: QB36.H25 L68 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
by
Thomas Hertog
Call Number: QB981 .H475 2023
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino
by
Alan Chodos & James Riordon
Call Number: QC793.5.N42 C45 2023
The Climate Book
by
Greta Thunberg
Call Number: QC903 .T59 2023
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
by
David Lipsky
Call Number: QC903.2.U6 L5 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
by
Jeff Goodell
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 G6648 2023
Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics
by
Paul R. Ehrlich
Call Number: QH31.E47 A3 2023
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Book of Animal Secrets: Nature's Lessons for a Long and Happy Life
by
David B. Agus
Call Number: QH81 .A34 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology
by
Philip Ball
Call Number: QH501 .B356 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell is Rewriting the Story of Life
by
Alfonso Martinez Arias
Call Number: QH581.2 .M383 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
From One Cell: A Journey Into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
by
Ben Stanger
Call Number: QH582.4 .S77 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
by
Paco Calvo
Call Number: QK711.2 .C35 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
by
David Scheel
Call Number: QL430.3.O2 S34 2023
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
by
Sy Montgomery
Call Number: QL666.C5 M66 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
by
Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal
Call Number: QL676.5 .G95 2023
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
by
Jennifer Ackerman
Call Number: QL696.S8 A25 2023
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate
by
Nicolas Mathevon
Call Number: QL776 .M37313 2023 | Electronic Book
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
by
Nicklas Brendborg
Call Number: QP85 .B72313 2023
Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
by
Roy A. Meals
Call Number: QP321 .M3383 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
Breaking Through: My Life in Science
by
Katalin Karikó
Call Number: QP511.8.K37 A3 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
by
Emily Monosson
Call Number: QR245 .M658 2023 (New STEM Book Collection)
Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion
by
Richard Conniff
Call Number: Electronic Book [RA649 .C67 2023]
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
by
Jonathan Kennedy
Call Number: RA649 .K46 2023 (Café Collection)
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
by
Peter Attia
Call Number: RA776.75 .A885 2023
Amazon's Best Science Books of 2023
Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
by
Theresa MacPhail
Call Number: RC584 .M28 2023
The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow
by
Sarah Brown
Call Number: SF446.5 .B78 2023 (STEM Café Collection)
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
by
Meredith Broussard
Call Number: T14.5 .B765 2023 (New STEM Book Collection) | Electronic Book
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
by
Vaclav Smil
Call Number: Electronic Book [T15 .S63 2023]
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life
by
Johan Eklof
Call Number: TD195.L52 E4413 2023
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
by
Chris Van Tulleken
Call Number: TP370 .T85 2023
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