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Here is a list of science ebooks, updated every week or so. For titles that we have reviewed, links are provided. (Note that here at Download the Universe we focus on works about science that are unique to the digital realm. This list does not include electronic clones of print books.)

Book titles are linked to the most popular available format. See reviews for links to additional formats.

 

Addicted to Food: Understanding the Obesity Crisis, by James Ehrlichman

Angel Killer, by Deborah Blum. Review.

Artificial Epidemics: How Medical Activism Has Inflated the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer and Depression, by Stewart Justman. Review

Battle at the End of Eden, Amanda R. Martinez

Be Not Content, by William Craddock. Review

Before the Swarm, by Nicholas Griffin. Review

Bats: Furry Fliers of the Night, by Mary Kay Carson. Review

Blazing My Trail: Living and Thriving with Autism, by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg. Review

Blindsight, by Chris Colin. Review.

The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks, by Joe Kloc. Review

Cassini HD, published by Thinx Media. Review.

Chasing the Higgs Boson, by Dennis Overbye. Review

The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday. Review

City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There. 

Cold Blooded, by Jere Longman. Review.

Color Uncovered. Exploratorium. Review.

Controlling Cancer: A Powerful Plan for Taking On the World's Most Daunting Disease, by Paul Ewald. Review

Dead or Alive, by Erika Hayasaki. Review

Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise, by Daniel Grossman. Review

Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, by Phil Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan. Review

The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, by Lisa Song and Elizabeth McGowan

Do No Harm, by Anil Ananthaswamy. Review

The Electric Mind, by Jessica Benko. Review

Electric Shock: How Electricity Could Be The Key To Human Regeneration, by Cynthia Graber. Review

The Elements: A Visual Exploration, by Theodore Gray. Review.

Farthest North: America's First Arctic Hero and His Horrible, Wonderful Voyage to the Frozen Top of the World, by Todd Balf. Review.

Fish, by Robin Sloan. Review.

Flatland, by Edwin Abbott. Review.

The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, by Charles Darwin. Review.

Fragile Earth. Published by HarperCollins Review

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Review.

Gems. Touch Press. Review

Going to Extremes. James Powell. Review

Gutenberg the Geek, Jeff Jarvis. Review

Half-Life: Reflections from Jerusalum on a Broken Neck, by Joshua Prager

Half-Safe: A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-world Adventure by James Nestor.

I Heard the Sirens Singing: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks. Laurie Garrett. Review

I’m Starved For You, by Margaret Atwood. Review.

Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan, by William T. Vollmann. Review

Island of Secrets by Matt Power. Review.

John McAfee’s Last Stand by Joshua Davis. Review.

Journey to the Exoplanets. Edward Bell and Ron Miller. Review.

The Kalinka Affair by Joshua Hammer. Review.

Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy. Touch Press. Review

Life on Earth. E.O. Wilson. Review

Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives, by Rachel Armstrong. Review

Lying, by Sam Harris. Review

March of the Dinosaurs, published by Touch Press. Review.

Meandering Mississippi, by Mary Leonard and Robert Koenig. Review

A Medieval Bestiary. published by eBook Treasures. Review.

The Mind of a Madman: Norway's struggle to understand Anders Breivik, by Richard Orange. Review

Micrographia, by Robert Hooke. Review

Minds of Modern Mathematics, published by IBM. Review

Natural History: Mammals. Published by DK Books. Review

The Origin of Darwinism. (Essays from The Guardian.)

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, by Al Gore. Review

Planet Killers: A Spine-Tingling Look at Near-Earth Objects, Mass Extinctions, and the Controversial Science of Planetary Defense , by Tad Friend, Review

Rockets and People. Boris Chertok. Review

Rough Beasts: The Zanesville Zoo Massacre, One Year Later by Charles Siebert. Review

Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists , by Ainissa Ramirez

Science at the Olympics. The staff of Scientific American. Review.

The Science of Optimism: Why We're Hard-Wired for Hope, by Tali Sharot

Shooting Star: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Frank Ramsey, by Karl Sabbagh

Skulls. Simon Winchester. Review.

A Small Dose of Toxicology, by Steven Gilbert. Review

Smile: the Astonishing Powers of a Single Act, by Ron Gutman. Review

The Solar System, by Marcus Chown. Review.

Space Nutrition, by Scott Smith et al. Review

The Stir of Waters: Radiation, Risk, and the Radon Spa of Jachymov, by Paul Voosen. Review

Symbolia (A comics journalism magazine) Review

Titanic: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Greatest Shipwreck , from the staff of National Geographic. Review 

An Unexpected Twist, by Andy Borowitz. Review

Uprising: How a Community College Drop-out Revealed the Climate Hazard Beneath Our Feet, by Phil McKenna. Review

What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems, by Alanna Shaik. Review.

What Technology Wants, by Kevin Kelly. Review.

When I’m 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens if it Succeeds, David Duncan. Review.

Why the Net Matters: How the Internet Will Save Civilization, by David Eagleman. Review.

Wonders of Geology: An Aerial View of America's Mountains , by Michael Collier. Review.

Wonders of the Universe, by Brian Cox. Review

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