Science Genre – What’s the best definition for the science genre? Books in the science nonfiction genre are about the systematic and organizing of knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. The books in this genre study the structure and behavior of the physical and nature world through observation and experimentation (i.e. science experiments). They are books about how things work and react together and against each other in chemical and physical ways.
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Science Genre – Examples
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1. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
2. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
3. Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick
4. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
5. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
6. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
7. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
8. Gˆdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
9. Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
10. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
11. How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
12. Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
13. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel
14. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
15. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
16. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
17. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
18. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
19. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
20. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
21. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
22. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
23. The Invention of Religion by Alexander Drake
24. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
25. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
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