The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
By: Robin Ince
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimid…
Want to Read $ 7.99"I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read in folk tales."-Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
"I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read in folk tales."-Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
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1. Human Universe
By: Brian Cox , Andrew Cohen
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nucle… read more
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2. Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
By: Gary Klein
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Insights--like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's b… read more
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3. Against the Odds: An Autobiography
By: James Dyson
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more
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4. You Can Read Anyone: Never Be Fooled, Lied To, or Taken Advantage of Again
By: David J. Lieberman
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
This book contains specific, practical, and proven, psychological techniques that you can use to kn… read more
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5. The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behavior
By: David Attenborough
4.45
Format: 864 pages,
"Watching and filming animals world-wide has occupied most of my working life. By the end of the 19… read more
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6. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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7. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
8. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
9. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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10. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
By: Adam Kay
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more
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11. Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way
By: Judy Ho
3.83
Format: 8 pages, Audio CD
Award-winning psychologist and TV personality Dr. Judy Ho helps you stop the cycle of self-sabotage… read more
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12. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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13. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
14. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By: Tim Spector
4.27
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more
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15. The Art of Explanation
By: Ros Atkins
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creat… read more
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16. Ask a Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
By: Greg Jenner
4.11
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Why is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? Which people from history would best pull off a casino… read more
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17. The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
By: Robin Ince
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"I wonder how it can be considered that science disenchants the world. The power of the spells of physics to make the empty solid — and nothing, something — seem greater than anything I have ever read…"-Robin Ince, The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity
18. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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19. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
By: Katherine Rundell
4.42
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more
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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure
20. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more
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21. A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering
By: Andrew Hunter Murray
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
One perfect house. One dead body. One bad day. There are thousands and thousands of decent homes… read more
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22. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
By: Ken Smith
4.23
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more
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23. Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
By: Tom Phillips
3.78
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been h… read more
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24. The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets
By: Michael Blastland
3.69
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - t… read more
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25. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
26. Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
By: Ben Bowlin
3.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The co-hosts of the hit podcast Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, &… read more
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27. Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters (Getting Art Done Book 2)
By: David Kadavy
3.94
Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition
OVER 40,000 COPIES SOLD“An exhilarating but highly structured approach to the creative use of time.… read more
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28. The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Infinite Monkey Cage , the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebrat… read more
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