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Science and mathematics ebooks sound like they might be dry subject matter, but in reality, they cover some of the most fascinating topics known to humankind. These nonfiction faves explore everything from botany and human psychology to physics and astronomy. Start satisfying your curiosity about maths and sciences!

Science and mathematics ebooks sound like they might be dry subject matter, but in reality, they cover some of the most fascinating topics known to humankind. These nonfiction faves explore everything from botany and human psychology to physics and astronomy. Start satisfying your curiosity about maths and sciences!

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

bySiddhartha Mukherjee

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Gene “blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” (Oprah Daily). Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves—hearts, blood, brains—are built from these compartments. Hooke christened them “cells.” The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia—all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. Filled with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling, The Song of the Cell tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts, and laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate—a masterpiece on what it means to be human. “In an account both lyrical and capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution of human understanding: from the seventeenth-century discovery that humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edge technologies for manipulating and deploying cells for therapeutic purposes” (The New Yorker).

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Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili is a quantum physicist, author, and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey in England. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics in 1989 and has published more than a hundred research papers on the subject. He is a well-known presenter of TV and radio in Britain, and his many popular science books have been translated into twenty-six languages. He is a recipient of the Royal Society of London’s Michael Faraday Prize and the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal. In 2016 he received the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. He lives in Southsea in Hampshire with his wife, Julie.

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Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili is a quantum physicist, author, and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey in England. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics in 1989 and has published more than a hundred research papers on the subject. He is a well-known presenter of TV and radio in Britain, and his many popular science books have been translated into twenty-six languages. He is a recipient of the Royal Society of London’s Michael Faraday Prize and the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal. In 2016 he received the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. He lives in Southsea in Hampshire with his wife, Julie.

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Science and mathematics books offer us a wide range of fascinating worlds to explore, from the latest research on plagues and newly emerging diseases to fascinating explorations of the minds of octopuses. The science and mathematics ebooks category and its subcategories encompass biology, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, nature, astronomy, and space sciences. Life and nature's many mysteries have always fascinated humans, from the smallest everyday phenomena to the most incomprehensible mysteries. We can all benefit from the work of a wide range of experts in the fields of science, mathematics, and related disciplines. A wide variety of nonfiction subjects, teaching, theories, and discussions can be found in science and mathematics books, which include a wide range of topics. There is a wide range of books on human psychology, botany, the best nonfiction science, psychology, and more. Books on astrophysics are included in this category. Even the memoirs of scientists and mathematicians who have made significant contributions to their fields are included in this collection. This wide-ranging genre includes studies on cephalopods, color perception, number theory, butterflies, DNA, the molecular makeup of asteroids, and depression. Everand's most popular science and math ebooks include Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You. Why not start searching for answers to some of life's most pressing questions? It’s all right here for you to explore.