Best Science Books
Category100 of 1,440 books166 recommendations totalThe science books physicists, biologists and science writers recommend most — evolution, cosmology, neuroscience and mathematics. Including the popular accounts that get the details right, each with a source behind it.
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Recommended books, ranked by how many of the 110 people behind this list recommended each one.
- 1Predictably Irrational13 recommendations · recommended by Keith Rabois, Tom Bilyeu and Tristan Harris
- 2The Diamond Age11 recommendations · recommended by Naval Ravikant, Geoffrey Miller and Ev Williams
- 3The Visual Display of Quantitative Information9 recommendations · recommended by Cleo Abram, Jeff Atwood and Michael Okuda
- 4The Making of the Atomic Bomb7 recommendations · recommended by Chris Dixon, John Sipher and Hilary Mason
- 5How Not to Be Wrong7 recommendations · recommended by Keith Rabois, Bill Gates and Steven Strogatz

The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Recommended by Keith Rabois, Tom Bilyeu, Tristan Harris and 9 others
Ariely walks you through a parade of clever experiments that expose the irrational forces behind everyday decisions. The anecdotes are breezy and often funny, making complex ideas feel like party conversation. It’s useful for spotting your own blind spots, but the rapid-fire stories can blur together, and the pop-science style may underwhelm if you want rigorous academic depth.

Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
Recommended by Naval Ravikant, Geoffrey Miller, Ev Williams and 6 others
The Diamond Age is a sprawling narrative that marries a Victorian-influenced future with nano-tech ubiquity, following Nell's coming-of-age guided by a stolen interactive 'Primer.' The reading is rich with inventive concepts and cultural satire, but also prone to digressions and side plots that fracture momentum. Its useful part is the Primer as a thought experiment about personalized education and consciousness. The limitation: Stephenson's ambition often outpaces his narrative cohesion, leaving threads dangling and the ending feeling more intellectual than emotionally satisfying.

Recommended by Cleo Abram, Jeff Atwood, Michael Okuda and 4 others
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis.
Recommended by Chris Dixon, John Sipher, Hilary Mason and 1 other
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Recommended by Keith Rabois, Bill Gates, Steven Strogatz and 3 others
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Recommended by Richard Branson, Raychelle Burks, Patrick Collison and 1 other
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries.

The Evolution of Minds
Recommended by Vinod Khosla, Ray Dalio and Esther Dyson
Reading experience is dense, argumentative, and idea-rich, with Dennett advancing a single, broad thesis through history, thought experiments, and selective scientific examples. The most useful part is the long chain of linked metaphors and conceptual moves that track how simple biological systems plus cultural transmission might build minds. Its main limitation is repeated digressions and polemical rebuttals that can feel tiresome; it doesn't provide practical how-tos or hands-on exercises. Expect rewards if you enjoy sustained conceptual argument; expect friction if you prefer short summaries.
Recommended by David Heinemeier Hansson, Robert Odenkirk, Lauren Laverne and 2 others
A timely calltoarms from a Silicon Valley pioneer.You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that were better off without them.

Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Recommended by Marc Andreessen, Brad Feld, Bryan Johnson and 1 other
New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity How certain are we about our understanding of time What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years…
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Recommended by Matt Haig, Robert Macfarlane, Michael Pollan and 3 others
A journey into the hidden world of fungi.When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree.

A Novel
Recommended by Susan J. Fowler, Adrienne Porter Felt, Danielle Morrill and 2 others
Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, firstgeneration American and office drone meandering her way into Adult,hood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone selfsequestered in a Manhattan…
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Recommended by Naval Ravikant, Keith Rabois, D.A. Wallach and 1 other
Wonderful ... Illuminating ... Fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A pioneer of Artificial Intelligence, shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists…
A Pandemic Story
Recommended by Eric Topol, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Kelly Vaughn and 1 other
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics.

The Secret Lives of the Brain
Recommended by Ray Dalio, Tom Bilyeu, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 1 other
If the conscious mindthe part you consider to be youis just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate its surprising mysteries.

From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Recommended by Richard Branson, Sarah Drasner, Ankur Warikoo and 1 other
Was there a beginning of time Could time run backwards Is the universe infinite or does it have boundariesThese are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist generally considered to have been one of the…

Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Recommended by Cleo Abram, Chris Dixon and Chris Fralic
How We Got to Now is a readable, illustrated collection of historical vignettes that ties familiar modern items — refrigeration, clocks, eyeglass lenses — to earlier inventions and unexpected ripple effects. Its useful part is its pattern-spotting and clear storytelling: short chapters make it easy to jump between episodes and see surprising lines of influence. Its main limitation is light treatment of complexity; technical mechanisms and competing interpretations are often skimmed, and the same connective move can feel repetitive.
The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps, and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind
Recommended by Aubrey Marcus and Oli Barrett
Proven solutions for a better night's sleep, from the "sleep guru" to elite athletesOnethird of our lives3,000 hours a yearis spent trying to sleep.

The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
Recommended by Salil Tripathi, Rafat Ali and R Balakrishnan
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019New York Public Library Best Books of 2019 Kirkus Reviews Best Health and Science Books of 2019Science Friday Best Books of 2019 New postscript by the authorFrom an awardwinning journalist, an explosive…
AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI
Recommended by Demis Hassabis and Berci Meskó
It took AlphaZero only a few hours of selflearning to become the chess player that shocked the world. The Artificial Intelligence, system, created by DeepMind, had been fed nothing but the rules of the Royal Game when it beat the world’s strongest chess engine in a prolonged…
The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)
Recommended by Larry Page and Brian Armstrong
Working mostly alone, almost singlehandedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures(R), a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systemscreatures that would live and…
Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion
Recommended by Pamela Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix
Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate
Recommended by Bill Gates
There are many misconceptions about the future of global energy often presented as fact by the media, politicians, business leaders, activists, and even scientistswasting time and money and hampering the development of progressive energy policies.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRichard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safecracker.In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the largerthanlife exploits of Nobelwinning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, worldclass…
Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
Recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and Technology,.

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Recommended by Sophie Bakalar and Kelly Wickham Hurst
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.

The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Recommended by Katharine Hayhoe and Chip Conley
New York Times bestseller The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world"At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative…

Rinella follows a lottery‑won permit into Alaska for a hunt that becomes a way to tell the bison’s story and America’s. The book’s useful part is on‑the‑ground detail—camp life, tracking, animal behavior—woven with cultural background about how bison shaped national imagination. It reads as a hands‑on, sometimes blunt, hunting memoir rather than an abstract natural history. Limitation: readers seeking detached ecological synthesis or gentle prose may find the hunting‑first voice narrow and the procedural passages overlong.
How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Recommended by Naval Ravikant and Charlie Munger
The story of two brilliant nineteenthcentury scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth centuryTwo of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael…
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space.
Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
Recommended by Bill Gates
The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born.

Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
Recommended by Paul Graham
For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today.

New York Times bestseller Life on the Edge alters our understanding of our world's fundamental dynamics through the use of quantum mechanics.Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be Even in an age of cloning and artificial…

Tyson writes short, conversational chapters that translate cosmic scale, basic astrophysics, and the arc of cosmic history into vivid metaphors and brisk explanations. The most useful part is orientation—memorable anchors and mental images that make large ideas stick without equations. Annoying or limiting: frequent brevity means topics are sketched rather than developed, and recurring jokes or one-liners can feel surface-level. Best as an appetite-whetter or primer, not a deep technical course. Read in short sessions; it hands you curiosity more than instruction.
The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
Recommended by Steve Aoki
With a New AfterwordMust We AgeNearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the aging process, extending our productive, youthful lives. Dr. Aubrey de Grey is perhaps the most bullish of all such researchers.
Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Recommended by Rachel Botsman and David Smith

A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation.Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software.
NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Toronto Star Bestselling Book of the YearWitty and entertaining.Sarah KnightLaughoutloud.Steve BrusatteAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC FCKUPS OF HUMAN HISTORYModern humans have come a long way in the seventy…
An Approach to the Engineering of Man's Divinity
Recommended by Jason Silva
Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
Recommended by Charlie Munger and Shane Parrish
We fail to mandate economic sanity, " writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt colorcoded Society.
The Theoretical Minimum
From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum physicsFirst he taught you classical mechanics.
Second Edition (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Recommended by Steven Strogatz
Accessible but rigorous, this outstanding text encompasses all of the topics covered by a typical course in elementary abstract algebra. Its easytoread treatment offers an intuitive approach, featuring informal discussions followed by thematically arranged exercises.
Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrongand What You Really Need to Know
Recommended by Bethany S. Mandel

The Art of Skepticism in a DataDriven World
Recommended by Nigel Warburton
Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.It's increasingly difficult to know what's true. Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound.
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren a colossal starship with an Artificial Intelligence, linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Recommended by Raychelle Burks
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City.

Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a postapocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again.

A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Winner of the Gold Dagger AwardA fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation.

In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry, a young reporter, searches for the killer of a veteran of the 1962 war and begins to suspect that the victim may have held the key to a terrifying conspiracy.

Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of…

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer before they kill again.It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood.At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died.
An Introduction (13th Edition)
For prenursing and allied health students (including mixedmajors courses). Cutting edge microbiology research for today's learners Tortora, Funke, and Case's Microbiology, An Introduction brings a 21stcentury lens to the #1 bestselling text on the market.
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...
A Molecular Approach (5th Edition)
For courses in chemistry. Actively engage students to become expert problem solvers and critical thinkers Nivaldo Tro's Chemistry: A Molecular Approach presents chemistry visually through multilevel imagesmacroscopic, molecular, and symbolic representationsto help students see…
Revised edition: This edition of Toward Yesterday includes editorial revisions.What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twentyfive years in the past For the ninebillion people of the year 2042 it's no longer a question ...

A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time
How to Give Up Plastic reads like a hands-on manual: short, concrete chapters that move through rooms and routines, with many specific substitution ideas you can try immediately. Its useful part is translation — turning abstract worries about ocean plastic into actionable swaps and small habit changes. The main limitation is scale: readers looking for systemic analysis, detailed sourcing guidance, or long-form evidence will find the treatment pragmatic but lightweight, and some sections repeat similar limitations.
Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father_x0092_s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenthcentury China, the land from One…

A provocative, urgent audiobook about time, family and how a changing planet might change our lives, from James Bradley, acclaimed author of The Resurrectionist and editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean.Compelling, challenging and resilient, over ten beautifully contained…

After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushroomschefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels.
Problems in General PhysicsArihant PublicationsI E Irodov2016EDN6
Written by leading authorities in database and Web technologies, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. The popularity of the Web and Internet commerce provides many extremely large datasets from which information can be gleaned by data mining.

From the creators of the awardwinning An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, A Butterfly Is Patient, and A Nest Is Noisy comes this gorgeous and informative introduction to the fascinating world of rocks.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to poweruncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history.One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand…

H C Verma s Concepts Of Physics is an allinclusive book, which serves to detail out the ABC of physics in an intricate manner making it an ideal book for not only the higher secondary students, but also for those who are preparing for their competitive examinations.Physics as a…

My Adventures with Bumblebees
A Sting in the Tale stitches together childhood mischief, hands-on fieldwork, and straightforward conservation advice into an accessible, often funny portrait of bumblebees and why they matter. The book’s useful part is turning obscure insect lives into memorable scenes and small, actionable steps for gardeners and nature lovers. Its main limitation is uneven depth and occasional repetition: passages that charm can be followed by long lists or procedural descriptions that slow the narrative for readers seeking lean, data-rich prose.

We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a highlevel politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting.
The Origin and Fate of the Universe
Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, Professor Hawking's work introduced "the history of ideas about the universe" as well as today's most important scientific theories about time, space, and the cosmos in a clear, easytounderstand way.
Recently voted the greatest Fantasy, of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present…

The New Synthesis, TwentyFifth Anniversary Edition
View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"Harvard University Press is proud to announce the rerelease of the complete original version of Sociobiology: The New Synthesisnow available in paperback for the first time.

The 13th edition of "Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology" continues this bestselling title's long tradition as the world's foremost medical physiology textbook.

Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other: The Body Farm.

ThirtyTwo (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
An awardwinning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological tales by multipleawardwinning science writer…
Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires.
For 40 years, Kleppner and Kolenkow's classic text has introduced students to the principles of mechanics. Now brought up to date, this revised and improved second edition is ideal for classical mechanics courses for first and secondyear undergraduates with foundation skills in…
"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject." Scientific American In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are…

Honor Harrington, Book 11
What Price VictoryThe War with the Republic of Haven has resumed...disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet.
A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe.
A standalone book set in the USJ universe, Mecha Samurai Empire focuses on a group of aspiring mecha cadets preparing to fight the Nazis. Foremost among them, Makoto Fujimoto grew up in California, but with a differencehis California is part of the United States of Japan.

Flower Garden pairs spare rhyming lines with warm, full-color illustrations to follow an African American girl and her father as they buy plants, ride the bus, and build a window-box present for the child’s mother. What works best is the tender, urban-meets-nature mood and imagery that invites picture-walking and read-aloud interaction. The main limitation is the book’s poetic brevity: it offers little factual gardening information and the rhymes may seem repetitive to older listeners or adults seeking practical content.

A Novel
Ready Player One meets Gladiator in this highoctane thriller that mixes fighttothedeath UFCstyle cage matches and blackops espionage.In the near future, the line between entertainment and brutality has blurred.
The Making of a Scientific Dynasty
Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize and Lasker Awardwinning breakthroughs…

A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials)
A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.

The 10th edition of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics building upon previous issues by offering several new features and additions.
The Xenogenesis Trilogy, Book 1
Lilith lyapo awoke from a centurieslong sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth.
A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension
¿Hay otras dimensiones más allá de las de nuestra experiencia cotidiana ¿Hay puertas de acceso a universos paralelos ¿Qué sucedió antes del primer día de la Creación Este tipo de cuestiones están en el centro de la actividad científica actual.

A short, rhyming picture book that sends a silly pirate skeleton on a treasure-hunt beneath the waves. The language is jaunty and built for read-alouds, and illustrations carry much of the clue-and-surprise work, so the fun comes from timing and visual payoffs as bones reappear. Its useful part is lighthearted engagement: kids laugh at the premise and point out details. Its limitation is thin explanatory content — readers looking for true-to-life anatomy or a plot-heavy tale will feel unsatisfied.

Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M.

Highlander, Book 1
Beyond the Highland Mist drops a modern woman into medieval Scotland and pairs her with a brooding laird; the hook is immediate and the story leans on passionate attraction, court intrigue, and fae interference. Karen Marie Moning favors vivid atmosphere and romantic escalation, so chapters move fast and reward readers who want heat and escapism rather than nuanced historical realism. Useful bits: strong sensual set‑pieces and a satisfying fish‑out‑of‑time conflict. Limiting bits: melodramatic turns, repeated emotional beats, and occasional lapses in internal logic that will annoy readers who prefer tight plotting.
The action in Gray Lensman picks up immediately where Galactic Patrol left off, in the middle of the battle to destroy Helmuth's Main Base and, it is hoped, fully end the threat of Boskone.
Learn about the human body from the inside out Some people think that knowing about what goes on inside the human body can sap life of its mysterywhich is too bad for them.
An accessible introduction to an exciting new area in computation, explaining such topics as qubits, entanglement, and quantum teleportation for the general reader.Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science, incorporating some of the most…
Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr.

Cece loves science! In this STEMthemed picture book, Cece asks one of life's most pressing questions: Do dogs eat vegetables Cece and her best friend, Isaac, head to the lab to find out.This picture book is perfect for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist, and anyone who enjoys asking…
Recommended Science Books by Naval Ravikant
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Recommended Science Books by Bill Gates
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Recommended Science Books by Cleo Abram
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Science Books: common questions
- What are the most recommended science books?
- Predictably Irrational, The Diamond Age and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information are the most recommended science books on BookMentions, ranked by how many people recommended them.
- Who recommends science books?
- Naval Ravikant, Bill Gates, Cleo Abram and Keith Rabois are among the people who recommend books on this list. Each name links to their full set of book recommendations.
- Which of these science books should I read first?
- Predictably Irrational is the most recommended here with 13 recommendations, which makes it the safest place to start.
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- Naval RavikantBooks recommended by Naval: 4

- Bill GatesBooks recommended by Bill: 3

- Cleo AbramBooks recommended by Cleo: 3
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