18 Top nonfiction books like How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff

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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe

By: Harry Cliff

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Experimental physicist and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff takes you on an exhilarating sea…

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1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

By: Charles Petzold

4.39

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CO… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick."

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

"Yes, the earth is a massive conductor of electricity, but it can also be viewed as both a source of electrons and a repository for electrons. The earth is to electrons as an ocean is to drops of wate…"

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

"Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carry…"

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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2. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"Gullibility kills."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

3. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

By: Edward Frenkel

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesScience Bestseller What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taug… read more

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4. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more

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5. 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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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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6. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
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7. Quantum Supremacy

By: Michio Kaku

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
Cover of Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway

8. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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9. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

By: Becky Smethurst

4.38

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • popular science
  • astronomy
  • education
  • physics
  • audiobook
Cover of Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven H. Strogatz

10. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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11. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • astronomy
  • space
  • physics
  • audiobook
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12. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

By: Thomas Hertog

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • popular science
  • astronomy
  • education
  • physics
  • audiobook
"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"

-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

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13. There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli fo… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
"I don’t like to thank God: I like to wake in the morning, look at the sea and thank the wind, the waves, the sky, the fragrance of plants, the life that allows me to exist, the sun that rises."

-Carlo Rovelli, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

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14. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Sabine Hossenfelder

3.92

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."

-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

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15. Time Squared

By: Lesley Krueger

2.62

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

"I’ll dive right in and tell you that the novel, Time Squared by Lesley Krueger, which I’ve loved m… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean Carroll

16. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

By: Sean Carroll

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • astronomy
  • space
  • physics
  • audiobook
Cover of Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene

17. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

By: Brian Greene

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of … read more

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  • astronomy
  • space
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"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, e…"

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Cover of How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs by Guy Raz

18. How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

By: Guy Raz

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WALL STREET JOURNAL #1 Bestselling Business BookBased on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Bu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff

19. How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe

By: Harry Cliff

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Experimental physicist and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff takes you on an exhilarating sea… read more

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  • science
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • popular science
  • astronomy
  • education
  • physics
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Brian Cox

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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  • science
  • nonfiction
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  • astronomy
  • space
  • physics
  • audiobook
Cover of Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table (Bloomsbury Sigma) by Kit  Chapman

21. Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table (Bloomsbury Sigma)

By: Kit Chapman

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth look at how elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. The … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science

15 Top audiobook books like How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff

Transform Your Habits

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Quantum Supremacy

Michio Kaku

3.79

Transform Your Habits

A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

Becky Smethurst

4.38

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16 Top audiobook books like There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

Transform Your Habits

On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

Thomas Hertog

4.08

Transform Your Habits

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

Carlo Rovelli

4.05

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