STEM BESTSELLERS AUGUST 2024

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1

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. [HC] Zoë Schlanger. Harper. 2024. ISBN 9780063073852. $29.99.

2

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters. [HC] Charon Ranganath. Doubleday. 2024. ISBN 9780385548632. $30.

3

Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos. [HC] Lisa Kaltenegger. St. Martin’s Press. 2024. ISBN 9781250283634. $30.

4

Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are. [HC] Rebecca Boyle. Random House. 2024. ISBN 9780593129722. $28.99.

5

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite. [HC] Chris Balakrishnan and Matt Wasowski. St. Martin’s Press. 2024. ISBN 9781250288349. $30.

6

Before It’s Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America. [HC] Jonathan Vigliotti. Atria/One Signal Publishers. 2024. ISBN 9781668008171. $29.99.

7

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. [HC] Hannah Ritchie. Little, Brown Spark. 2024. ISBN 9780316536752. $30.

8

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. [HC] Jason Roberts. Random House. 2024. ISBN 9781984855206. $35.

9

H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z. [HC] Elizabeth Kolbert. Ten Speed Press. 2024. ISBN 9781984863522. $24.99.

10

Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World. [HC] Edward Humes. Avery. 2024. ISBN 9780593543368. $28.

11

The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System. [HC] Dante Lauretta. Grand Central. 2024. ISBN 9781538722947. $30.

12

The Death of Truth. [HC] Steven Brill. Knopf. 2024. ISBN 9780525658313. $30.

13

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality. [HC] William Morrow. 2024. ISBN 9780063113275. $32.50.

14

On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America. [HC] Abrahm Lustgarten. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024. ISBN 9780374171735. $30.

15

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water. [HC] Amorina Kingdon. Crown. 2024. ISBN 9780593442777. $30.

16

Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe. [HC] Harry Cliff. Doubleday. 2024. ISBN 9780385549035. $29.

17

The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets. [HC] Thomas R. Cech. W.W. Norton. 2024. ISBN 9781324050681. $28.99.

18

Silk: A World History. [HC] Aarathi Prasad. William Morrow. 2024. ISBN 9780063160255. $32.50.

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Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves. [HC] Tamsin Mather. Hanover Square Press. 2024. ISBN 9781335080851. $32.99.

20

Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. [HC] Sean Carroll. Dutton. 2024. ISBN 9780593186602. $26.