NVCL Picks: Learning science. 3rd floor, rows 25 – 26Like this list

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• When the Earth Was Green

  Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

  Black, Riley,

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• Nexus

  a Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

  Harari, Yuval N.,

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• The Master Builder

  How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life

  Martinez Arias, Alfonso, 1955-

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  The Master Builder will transform your understanding of our past, present, and future—as individuals and as a species.

• Utter, Earth

  Advice on Living in a More-than-human World

  Yuen, Isaac,

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• The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

  Space, Time, and Motion

  Carroll, Sean M., 1966-

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  The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why We Die

  the New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

  Ramakrishnan, Venki, 1952-

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  A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die-from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan.

• Space Shuttle Stories

  Firsthand Astronaut Accounts From All 135 Missions

  Jones, Tom, 1955 January 22-

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• Other Minds

  the Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

  Godfrey-Smith, Peter,

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  It explores the inner workings of cephalopod intelligence and the evolution of consciousness in the animal kingdom.

• A Brief History of Intelligence

  Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

  Bennett, Max S. (Max Solomon),

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  The book bridges the gap between neuroscience and AI to tell the brain's evolutionary story.

• Pathogenesis

  a History of the World in Eight Plagues

  Kennedy, Jonathan,

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  In his debut book, public health scholar Jonathan Kennedy explains the complex interplay of humans, germs and animals, and the historical consequences of these intersections.

• Interstellar

  the Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

  Loeb, Abraham,

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  Combining cutting edge science, physics, and philosophy, Interstellar revolutionizes the approach to our search for extraterrestrial life and our preparation for its discovery.

• Elusive

  How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

  Close, F. E.,

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  A revelatory study of both a scientist and his era, Elusive will remake our understanding of modern physics.