Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
By: Mark Miodownik
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
By: Sam Kean
4.50
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, langu… read more
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- popular science
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus is that it's so creepy that we're 8 percent (or more…"-Sam Kean, The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
2. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
By: J.E. Gordon
4.13
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
In a book that Business Insider noted as one of the "14 Books that inspired Elon Musk," J.E. Gordon… read more
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- science
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- physics
- technology
"Nowadays, whether we like it or not, we are stuck with one form or another of advanced technology and we have got to make it work safely and efficiently: this involves, among other things, the intell…"-J.E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
3. Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
By: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in… read more
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4. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
5. Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
By: Nick Lane
3.87
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed,… read more
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6. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
By: Sam Kean
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more
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7. Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
By: Penny Le Couteur , Jay Burreson
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, … read more
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8. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
By: None
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! - Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! - Make a per… read more
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9. Paper: Paging Through History
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millen… read more
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10. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
By: Thor Hanson
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2016 PNBA Book Award A finalist for the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in… read more
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11. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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12. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
13. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more
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- nature
- science
14. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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- nature
- audiobook
"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
15. Zły syn
By: Jarek Skurzyński
3.60
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Czy dziecko musi kochać rodzica? Historia matki samotnie wychowującej syna w małej, osiedlowej s… read more
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16. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
By: Megan Kate Nelson
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more
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- history
17. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
By: Mark Miodownik
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tou… read more
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18. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
By: Nathan H. Lents
3.95
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more
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19. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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20. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
By: Tim James
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is the chemical symbol for a human? What's the strongest acid ever made? Can human beings real… read more
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21. The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris―The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
By: Kassia St. Clair
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The rise of the automobile as told through its Rubicon moment—a sensational, high-risk race across … read more
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