The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table
By: Anja Røyne
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the …
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1. The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People
By: Gary Chapman , Paul White
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplaceapplies the love language concept to the workplace.… read more
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2. Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
By: Jon Ronson
3.65
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times-bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, unc… read more
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3. Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
By: Gary F. Marcus
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
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4. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
By: Richard P. Feynman , Freeman Dyson , Jeffrey Robbins
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. F… read more
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5. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
By: Denise Kiernan
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial r… read more
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6. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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- science
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- education
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7. Mokytojas
By: Karolis Klimas
4.08
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Karolis Klimas knygoje pasakoja apie jauną, maištingos dvasios žmogų, kurį gyvenimo prasmės paiešk… read more
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8. Tiems, kurie neskaito
By: Benas Lastauskas
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Knygos veikėjai Ofisinis, Rūtelė, Edgaras, Tautvydas ir Arina gyvena tarp aukštų didmiesčio daugiab… read more
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9. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
10. 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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"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
11. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
12. Pranešėjas ir Prezidentas
By: Birutė Davidonytė
4.39
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Artėjant 2019-ųjų prezidento rinkimams Valstybės saugumo departamento žvalgybos pareigūnas gauna ne… read more
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13. The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
By: Thomas Curran
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2023 “Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling t… read more
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14. Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
By: Nicklas Brendborg
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Book of the Year • This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" … read more
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- audiobook
- health
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- popular science
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15. 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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16. The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic Table
By: Anja Røyne
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the … read more
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- nonfiction
- popular science
- education
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17. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
By: Bill Hammack
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more
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18. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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19. The Making of You: A Journey from Cell to Human
By: Katharina Vestre
4.11
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
It's the first great mystery: where did you come from? How did your cells know what to build? What … read more
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20. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
21. Komisch, alles chemisch!
By: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Chemie ist alles – was wir tun, was uns umgibt, was wir fühlen, alles hat mit Chemie zu tun. Glaube… read more
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22. 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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23. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
By: Cailin O'Connor
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho… read more
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24. Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
By: Lewis Dartnell
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our speci… read more
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"We are as utterly reliant on fire today as were our Paleolithic ancestors who huddled around a campfire; we've just hidden it behind the scenes of the modern world."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"...the iron in your blood not only links you to the ancient stars that created it in their nuclear forge but also to the magnetic shield around our world that protects life on Earth."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"The carbon dioxide released by the combustion of fossil fuels has been rapidly increasing its level in the atmosphere, which is now 45 per cent higher that prior to the Industrial Revolution."-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
"Since the early seventeenth century we’ve been fervently digging up this buried ancient carbon that cook tens of millions of years for the Earth to slowly stockpile, and we burned a great deal of it …"-Lewis Dartnell, Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
25. Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the riboso… read more
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"When we have a clear goal in mind, we think we are struggling to reach a summit. But there is no summit. When we get there, we realize we have just climbed a foothill, and there is an endless series …"-Venki Ramakrishnan, Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
26. Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
By: Seirian Sumner
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, au… read more
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27. The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
By: Jacqueline Mitton
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An essential guide to milestone developments in astronomy, telling the story of our ideas about spa… read more
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"I feel more passionate about the teaching side of my job than I have ever been, because it’s so important to convince the younger generation that their ability to question and think is crucial to the…"-Jacqueline Mitton, The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
28. Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across North America
By: Jack Nisbet
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson… read more
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29. The Chemistry Book
By: D.K. Publishing
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about t… read more
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30. Iššūkis. Poilsio nuo darbo knyga
By: Jurga Šeduikytė
3.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Iššūkis yra tai, kas padeda pajudėti žingsniu pirmyn. Iššūkis visada yra asmeninis, ir jo poreikį g… read more
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