Science

Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") 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. ...more

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The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises

The Intimate Animal: The Science of Sex, Fidelity, and Why We Live and Die for Love

The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires

The Hunger Crushing Combo Method: The Simple Secret to Eating Well Without Ever Dieting Again

The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare

Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships

Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters

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Cut Open: A Surgeon’s Stories of Loss, Resilience, and Growth

Daniel Eiferman (Goodreads Author)

Release date: Mar 19, 2026

Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught—but Every Clinician Needs

Surgeons and medical professionals are trained to act decisively when lives are on th Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught—but Every Clinician Needs

Surgeons and medical professionals are trained to act decisively when lives are on the line, but the hardest moments of the job often occur after the operations end. Complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury are realities of this work. Most are left to develop their own coping mechanisms, often through trial and error, without guidance on how to process these experiences in a healthy way, and this can lead to guilt,

Cut Open offers a more positive path. Trauma and acute care surgeon Dr. Daniel Eiferman shows readers how to build resilience, leadership, psychological safety, and emotional stability through story-driven lessons forged in the operating room. Opening with the worst complication of his career, he reveals how the profession’s unwritten expectations crushed him and how finding meaning in his own suffering reshaped the way he leads, teaches, and practices medicine.

Drawing from real surgical cases, personal hardship within his family, and years of teaching physicians, Dr. Eiferman gives readers a practical, memorable, and honest tool kit for the parts of medicine no one teaches: resolving conflict, crafting feedback, navigating post-traumatic growth, and improving the defeating internal narrative.

In this book, you’ll learn how to:
- Recover after complications and bad outcomes through post-traumatic growth.
- Interrupt the cycle of self-criticism using feedback from your trusted “inner circle,” process-over-results thinking, and the “Your Loss” mindset.
- Understand and manage your internal monologue, recognizing how self-talk after failure shapes recovery, decision-making, and long-term performance.
- Create teams that feel psychologically safe and consistently high-performing, where trust, vulnerability, and clear expectations allow people to function at their best under pressure.
- Persist when outcomes feel unfair by shifting expectations, focusing on what you can control, and protecting your integrity when external validation never comes.
- Lead with consistency and integrity, whether you’re guiding peers, mentoring trainees, or working within interdisciplinary teams.

If you want to recover faster, lead better, and feel more satisfaction in your professional life, this book will show you how. ...more
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Giveaway dates: Feb 17 - Mar 19, 2026

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A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection

Nicholas Epley

Release date: Mar 19, 2026

A life-changing message for our lonely age about why we often avoid what makes us happiest—connecting with other people—and how we can build wiser soc A life-changing message for our lonely age about why we often avoid what makes us happiest—connecting with other people—and how we can build wiser social habits through small and simple acts, from leading behavioral scientist and author of Mindwise.

“Dare to Connect explores the power and promise of the human connections that most of us never make—but could make so easily if we just opened our eyes. This is the eye-opener. Insightful, engaging, scientifically grounded and beautifully written, Dare to Connect is one of those rare books that might actually change your life.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness

There is a fundamental paradox at the core of human life. We are a highly social species uniquely equipped to connect with other people—and doing so makes us happier and healthier. And yet, we so often choose to be unsocial. We avoid talking to the stranger who sits next to us. We can’t seem to get beyond small talk with an acquaintance. We feel grateful to those we love but are reluctant to express our gratitude. We are constantly presented with opportunities to make a connection—with our fellow commuters, our baristas, our colleagues, our families—yet we don’t take them. Even in a time when loneliness and isolation have reached epidemic proportions, we forfeit these little moments, not realizing how they can add up to a happier, healthier you.

In Dare to Connect, renowned University of Chicago psychologist Nicholas Epley breaks down that split-second decision we face countless times a do we choose to reach out and connect with someone or hold back and avoid them? The science is resoundingly
Our happiness, health, and self-esteem are boosted by social behavior—whether we are introverts or extroverts.Our pessimism about reaching out creates a self-fulfilling the less we try, the more likely we are to think we’ll fail.Our social interactions are almost always better than we expect them to be.Social media and texting do not foster strong connections in the way meeting face-to-face or talking on the phone do.While there are many books promising one big fix, lots of small moments of sociality are more likely to improve your life than anything else.
Drawing on decades of research, his own life, and stories of people who have transformed their thinking and their social lives, Epley reveals the psychological mechanisms behind our hesitancy to reach out and empowers readers to put science into practice and build wiser social habits. Dare to Connect shows us that changing our thinking about how we approach others can change our lives. ...more
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Giveaway dates: Feb 22 - Mar 19, 2026

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