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Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning 鈥渒nowledge鈥�) is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding of how the physical world works. Through controlled methods, science uses observable physical evidence of natural phenomena to collect data, and analyzes this information to explain what and how things work.

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction

White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus-in Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World

The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker

The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash

Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future

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Spring's Miracles (An Indigenous Celebration of Nature, #3)

Kaitlin B. Curtice,

Gloria Felix (illustrator)

Release date: Mar 04, 2025

It鈥檚 time to welcome a new season, and this spring is going to be extra special. Join an Indigenous family on a springtime climbing adventure!
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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant

Pierre Zalloua,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (欧宝娱乐 Author) (introduction)

Release date: Apr 29, 2025

From a leading authority on population genetics, a deep dive into ancestry and origins聽in the Middle East that interrogates culture, identity, migrati ...more
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs鈥攁nd May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

Thomas Levenson

Release date: Apr 29, 2025

The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning鈥攁nd the pitfalls of ego鈥攁s it does ab The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning鈥攁nd the pitfalls of ego鈥攁s it does about microbes.

Scientists and enthusiastic amateurs first confirmed the existence of living things invisible to the human eye in the late sixteenth century. So why did it take two centuries to connect microbes to disease? As late as the Civil War in the 1860s, most soldiers who perished died not on the battlefield but of infected wounds, typhoid, and other diseases. Twenty years later, the outcome might have been different, following one of the most radical intellectual transformations in germ theory, the recognition that the tiniest forms of life have been humankind鈥檚 greatest killers. It was a discovery centuries in the making, and it transformed modern life and public health.

As Thomas Levenson reveals in this globe-spanning history, it has everything to do with how we see ourselves. For centuries, people in the West, believing themselves to hold God-given dominion over nature, thought too much of humanity and too little of microbes to believe they could take us down. When nineteenth-century scientists finally made the connection, life-saving methods to control infections and contain outbreaks soon followed. The next big break came with the birth of the antibiotic era in the 1930s. And yet, less than a century later, the promise of the antibiotic revolution is already receding due to years of overuse. Is our self-confidence getting the better of us again?

So Very Small follows the thread of human ingenuity and hubris across centuries鈥攁long the way peering into microscopes, spelunking down sewers, visiting army hospitals, traipsing across sheep fields, and more鈥攖o show how we came to understand the microbial environment and how little we understand ourselves. Levenson traces how and why ideas are pursued, accepted, or ignored鈥攁nd hence how human habits of mind can, so often, make it terribly hard to ask the right questions. ...more
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