Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
By: Adam Frank
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Speaking before a joint session of Congress, President Johnson said: “This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through . . . a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels."-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
"Speaking before a joint session of Congress, President Johnson said: “This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through . . . a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels."-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
"From the exoplanet data, astronomers can now say with confidence that one out of every five stars hosts a world where life as we know it could form. So, when you’re standing out there under the night sky, choose five random stars. Chances are, one of them has a world in its Goldilocks zone where liquid water could be flowing across its surface and life might already exist."-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
"From the exoplanet data, astronomers can now say with confidence that one out of every five stars hosts a world where life as we know it could form. So, when you’re standing out there under the night sky, choose five random stars. Chances are, one of them has a world in its Goldilocks zone where liquid water could be flowing across its surface and life might already exist."-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
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1. We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
By: Jorge Cham , Daniel Whiteson
4.28
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe. P… read more
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"Antiwater would look and feel and behave the same way as regular water except that if you drank it you would explode in a blinding flash of light, which, we admit, would be antirefreshing."-Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
"A single gram of antiparticles combined with a gram of normal particles would release more than 40 kilotonnes of explosive force, which is more than twice as powerful as the atomic bombs dropped by t…"-Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
2. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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3. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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4. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: None
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Our Mathematical Universeis a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov… read more
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5. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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6. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
By: Andrés Reséndez
3.68
Format: None pages,
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7. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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8. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
9. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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10. Notes from the Burning Age
By: Claire North
3.74
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of the most imaginative writers of her generation comes an extraordinary vision of the fut… read more
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"Grief never leaves, but life layers itself on top of the pain"-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age
"You do not fix grief; there is no pill. You only wait, and be there, and let time pass."-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age
"Here's the history of the world for you. Here's what the burning left behind. You want gods, and all you get are people."-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age
"Why I joined Temple!" Lah would say. "Tea, nice music, decent architecture!" "And the devotion of your life to awe, gratitude, compassion, and respect?" "Yes yes yes - all that stuff too."-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age
11. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
12. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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13. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
14. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
15. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
By: Adam Frank
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of… read more
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"Speaking before a joint session of Congress, President Johnson said: “This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through . . . a steady increase in carbon dioxide…"-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
"From the exoplanet data, astronomers can now say with confidence that one out of every five stars hosts a world where life as we know it could form. So, when you’re standing out there under the night…"-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
"In other words, pretty much every star you see in the night sky hosts at least one planet. The next time you find yourself outside at night, take a moment to stop and consider the implications of thi…"-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
"Making progress in science often hinges on asking the right kind of question. Without a well-posed question, discussions become little more than people talking (or yelling) past each other. And witho…"-Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
16. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
17. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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18. Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
By: Alan Stern
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alan Stern and David Grinspoon take us behind the scenes of the science, politics, egos, and public… read more
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"When word of the astronomers’ vote in Prague reached the New Horizons team, reactions ranged from indifferent (“Who cares what astronomers think? They’re not the experts in this."-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
"The people who created this amazing mission of exploration chased their new horizons hard; they never let go of their dream; they put everything they had into it; and eventually they chased it down a…"-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
"No doubt, there was something that drew people to this particular launch—a sense of something epochal, a passing of the torch from Voyager to a new generation of explorers who had been inspired by Vo…"-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
"They had done it! Against all the struggles, doubts, and naysayers of the past 17 years, a spaceship had left Earth that day on its way to explore the Pluto system. With it rode the hopes of its team…"-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
19. The Adventure Zone Vol. 2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
By: Clint McElroy
4.60
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D po… read more
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20. The Adventure Zone Vol. 3: Petals to the Metal
By: Clint McElroy
4.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
START YOUR ENGINES, friends, as we hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved age… read more
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21. The Adventure Zone Vol. 4: The Crystal Kingdom
By: Clint McElroy
4.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Based on the blockbuster podcast where the McElroy brothers and their dad play a tabletop RPG and i… read more
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