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Non-fiction books about science, suitable for the generalist.
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
av Penny Le Couteur
1,190 medlemmar
24 recensioner
3.8
2 Members
AnnaClaire, Alerticus
3
Galileis dotter : vetenskap, religion och innerlig tillgivenhet : en levnadsteckning
av Dava Sobel
6,470 medlemmar
111 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
AnnaClaire
4
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
av Robert Zubrin
784 medlemmar
15 recensioner
4
Member
Bretzky1
5
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
av Paul Bogard
351 medlemmar
16 recensioner
4.2
Member
inge87
6
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
av Jeffrey Kluger
178 medlemmar
5 recensioner
3.8
Member
dara85
7
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
av Brian Christian
1,430 medlemmar
45 recensioner
4
Member
Alerticus
8
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
av Timothy Ferris
1,110 medlemmar
5 recensioner
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
9
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
av Peter D. Ward
505 medlemmar
10 recensioner
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
10
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
av Kate Brown
178 medlemmar
10 recensioner
4.1
Member
inge87
11
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
av Dava Sobel
9,199 medlemmar
183 recensioner
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
12
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
av Daniel Lieberman
606 medlemmar
20 recensioner
4
Member
inge87
13
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
av William Rosen
74 medlemmar
2 recensioner
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
14
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
av Elizabeth Kolbert
3,613 medlemmar
163 recensioner
4.1
Member
inge87
15
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
av Barbara Goldsmith
482 medlemmar
11 recensioner
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
16
Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified
av Richard Wolfson
163 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
17
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
av Simon Winchester
4,135 medlemmar
122 recensioner
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
18
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
av Beth Shapiro
182 medlemmar
9 recensioner
3.9
Member
inge87
19
Spacefaring: The Human Dimension
av Albert A. Harrison
71 medlemmar
4
Member
Bretzky1
20
Seeing in the dark
av Timothy Ferris
449 medlemmar
11 recensioner
4
Member
AnnaClaire
21
Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
av Robert Zubrin
354 medlemmar
3 recensioner
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
22
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
av Kristin Ohlson
151 medlemmar
8 recensioner
4.2
Member
inge87
23
Det stoff varav kosmos väves : rummet, tiden och verkligheten
av Brian Greene
5,378 medlemmar
40 recensioner
4.1
Member
AnnaClaire
24
The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
av Tom Standage
186 medlemmar
3 recensioner
4
Member
Bretzky1
25
The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
av Brian Fagan
81 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
26
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
av Simon Winchester
2,274 medlemmar
66 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
AnnaClaire
27
The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms
av Connie Barlow
152 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
inge87
28
A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice (Wiley Popular Scienc)
av Doug Macdougall
53 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
29
Ett utsökt universum : supersträngar, dolda dimensioner och sökandet efter den slutgiltiga teorin
av Brian Greene
9,104 medlemmar
83 recensioner
4
Member
AnnaClaire
30
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
av Timothy Ferris
1,541 medlemmar
13 recensioner
4.2
Member
AnnaClaire
32
Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
av Gillen D'Arcy Wood
152 medlemmar
7 recensioner
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
33
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
av Simon Winchester
3,820 medlemmar
80 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
AnnaClaire
34
Evas sju döttrar : [Katrine, Xenia, Jasmine, Velda, Ursula, Tara, Helena]
av Bryan Sykes
1,939 medlemmar
34 recensioner
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
35
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
av Bryan Sykes
805 medlemmar
14 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
AnnaClaire
36
The Planets
av Dava Sobel
1,942 medlemmar
50 recensioner
½ 3.5
Member
AnnaClaire
37
The Children's Blizzard
av David Laskin
1,688 medlemmar
76 recensioner
4
Member
AnnaClaire
38
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
av John M. Barry
4,299 medlemmar
134 recensioner
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
39
Miss Leavitts stjärnor : om kvinnan som upptäckte hur man mäter universum
av George Johnson
219 medlemmar
7 recensioner
½ 3.6
Member
AnnaClaire