Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
By: Alex Bezzerides
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, irreverent guide to human evolution and what it means for our bodies today An…
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1. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
2. The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
By: David Richo
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
Why is it that despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Last Seen Wearing
By: Hillary Waugh
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Eighteen-year old Lowell Mitchell leaves her Friday morning history class and goes back to her room… read more
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4. A Burglar's Guide to the City
By: Geoff Manaugh
4.00
Format: 384 pages,
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide… read more
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5. Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
By: Ammon Shea
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
The author of Reading the OEDpresents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came … read more
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6. Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How To Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior
By: Sandra Aamodt , Sam Wang
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You: The Owner's Manual for the brain: an expert, comprehensive, and lively guide that makes sense … read more
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7. Spy Who Couldn't Spell, The : A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets
By: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
3.91
Format: 434 pages,
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8. And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara
By: Cody Cassidy , Paul Doherty
3.32
Format: 240 pages,
A gleefully gruesome look at the actual science behind the most outlandish, cartoonish, and impossi… read more
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9. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
11. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
12. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- science
- history
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
13. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
By: Hawon Jung
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
15. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- audiobook
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
16. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
17. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
By: Robin George Andrews
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
18. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
20. Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
By: Cody Cassidy
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- science
21. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
By: Dan Levitt
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambiti… read more
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- science
- history
- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
22. 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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- history
- science
- audiobook
"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
23. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
By: Tiya Miles
3.56
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- audiobook
24. Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
By: Alex Bezzerides
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, irreverent guide to human evolution and what it means for our bodies today An… read more
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- science
- history
- health
- medical
- biology
- evolution
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
25. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
By: Jack Hartnell
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more
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- history
- science
26. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
By: Michael Waldman
4.30
Format: 400 pages, ebook
An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more
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- history
- audiobook
27. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
By: Jeremy Desilva
4.33
Format: 352 pages, ebook
In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seem… read more
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- history
- health
- biology
- evolution
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...Bipedalism in an overly aggressive ape with purely selfish tendencies and a low tolerance for other group member would have been a recipe for extinction."-Jeremy Desilva, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
28. Tales from the Ant World
By: Edward O. Wilson
4.08
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of … read more
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- biology
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29. Sweet Thing: A Novel
By: David Swinson
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this DC-set standalone from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" ( New York Times B… read more
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30. A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome
By: Gregory S. Aldrete
3.78
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
How have films like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, or even a satire like Monty Python's Life of Bri… read more
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- history
- audiobook
31. The Breast Cancer Survival Manual: A Step-by-Step Guide for Women with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer
By: John Link
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on breast cancer treatment and survival, comple… read more
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- health
