Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
By: Roma Agrawal
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what…
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1. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o… read more
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2. How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit
By: Witold Rybczynski
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyd… read more
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3. Lo scudo di Talos
By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Talos, lo storpio, e cresciuto tra gli iloti. Pastore tra i pastori. Brithos, l'intrepido, e stato … read more
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4. Borderline (Anna Pigeon, #15)
By: Nevada Barr
1.00
Format: 96 pages,
The killings on Isle Royale have left Anna drained and haunted, her memories of her time with the w… read more
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5. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
By: Mark Miodownik
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more
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6. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages,
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with … read more
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7. Tales of the Unexpected
By: Roald Dahl
4.00
Format: None pages,
A wine connoisseur with an infallible palate and a sinister taste in wagers. A decrepit old man wit… read more
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8. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
By: Nick Lane
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at th… read more
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9. 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
10. 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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11. 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?
12. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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13. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
By: Simon Winchester
4.14
Format: 416 pages, ebook
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more
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"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
14. Ra
By: qntm
4.11
Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition
Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's m… read more
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15. Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
By: Christopher Mims
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from … read more
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16. 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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17. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
18. Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
By: Roma Agrawal
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what… read more
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- popular science
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19. Science Fictions
By: Stuart Ritchie
4.37
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporar… read more
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"Another example of educational hype is in some ways the second coming of the growth mindset concept: ‘grit’. This is the idea, promoted by the psychologist Angela Duckworth , that the ability to stic…"-Stuart Ritchie, Science Fictions
20. Memories of Ash (The Sunbolt Chronicles #2)
By: Intisar Khanani
4.51
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
An unjust imprisonment. A rogue apprentice. One epic jailbreak. In the year since she cast her s… read more
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"There are many kinds of light. The light of friendship can dispel all darkness."-Intisar Khanani, Memories of Ash (The Sunbolt Chronicles #2)
21. The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
By: Frances Haugen
3.73
Format: 17 pages, Audiobook
The inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the … read more
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