Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
By: Ron Cowen
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re…
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1. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
By: Gary Smith
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Or that Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? Or th… read more
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2. The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
By: Alan Lightman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreamsand Mr g,a meditation on the unexpected ways in which… read more
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3. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
By: Brian M. Fagan
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more
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4. 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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5. Great North Road
By: Peter F. Hamilton
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humani… read more
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6. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
By: Terrence Real
3.62
Format: 57 pages,
Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence R… read more
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7. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times
By: George Crile
4.36
Format: 544 pages,
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8. Opium: A History
By: Martin Booth
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more
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9. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
By: Charles Seife
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Church used it… read more
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10. Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein
By: Brian Greene
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Audiobook
Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene … read more
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11. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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12. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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13. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
By: Ron Cowen
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more
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14. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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15. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
By: Christie Aschwanden
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more
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16. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
By: Jared Diamond
3.90
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our … read more
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"Britain never regained its naval and economic dominance over the world, and it remains notoriously conflicted (“Brexit"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile’s problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Nations and individuals accept national and individual responsibility to take action to solve the problem, or else deny responsibility by self-pity, blaming others, and assuming the role of victim."-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
"Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibi…"-Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
17. The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
By: Kerri K. Greenidge
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Sarah and Angelina Grimke—the Grimke sisters—are revered figures in American history, famous for re… read more
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18. Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans
By: Josh Young
3.58
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of the history-making mission to reach the bottom of all five of the world’s oce… read more
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19. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Humanity’s last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civ… read more
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20. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
By: Joshua B. Freeman
3.82
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
"Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the nat… read more
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21. A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
By: Fay Bound Alberti
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A… read more
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