The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ
By: Monty Lyman
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growin…
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1. I morgen var jeg alltid en løve
By: Arnhild Lauveng
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
For ten years, Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic. In these pages she illuminates her battles with… read more
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2. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good… read more
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- audiobook
3. The Lawnmower Man: Stories from Night Shift
By: Stephen King , John Glover
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Audio Cassette
Five classic tales of terror from Stephen King's bone-chilling and bestselling collection, Night Sh… read more
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4. The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
By: Matt Simon
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal,… read more
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5. 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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- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
6. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
7. 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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- nature
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8. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
By: Scott J. Shapiro
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more
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- audiobook
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
9. Despre sensul vieții
By: Mihai Morar
4.15
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
„Zgomotul de fond al lumii ne-a făcut să credem că libertatea noastră e-n altă parte! Libertatea no… read more
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10. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
By: Nathan H. Lents
3.95
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more
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11. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
By: Frank Dikötter
3.94
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more
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12. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
By: Thor Hanson
4.06
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Editor's Choice pick *Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards … read more
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- nature
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13. The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more
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- history
- health
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
14. How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
By: Tom Mustill
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who wen… read more
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"What confounds this dilemma further is that individual animals within a species have varying cognitive abilities. To quote the Yosemite National Park ranger who, when asked why it was proving so hard…"-Tom Mustill, How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
15. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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16. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ
By: Monty Lyman
4.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growin… read more
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18. O muscă în Sfântul Munte. O poveste tulburătoare despre descoperirea credinței
By: Vasilis G. Frangopulos
4.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
O calatorie in Muntele Athos - intre zidurile sfinteniei ingeresti si sub mantia ocrotitoare a Maic… read more
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19. Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
4.06
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but b… read more
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"The main reason we use math in physics, however, is because we can."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"foundational physics, which is far from experimental test as science can be while still being science"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"if you quote this, you can be the first person to quote someone quoting someone quoting himself quoting someone"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
"Theoretical physicists used to explain what was observed. Now they try to explain why they can't explain what was not observed"-Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
20. Slime: A Natural History
By: Susanne Wedlich
3.40
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion … read more
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21. Bones: Inside and Out
By: Roy A. Meals
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A lively, illustrated exploration of the 500-million-year history of bone, a touchstone for underst… read more
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