The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
By: Steven Mithen
4.14
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the langua…
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1. The Invention of God
By: Thomas Römer , Raymond Geuss
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Romer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions abou… read more
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3. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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4. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
By: Ian Mortimer
4.00
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
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6. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
By: Nghi Vo
4.24
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more
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- audiobook
7. Math Without Numbers
By: Milo Beckman
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math The only numbers in this book ar… read more
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- nonfiction
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8. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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10. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation
11. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
12. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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- audiobook
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- nonfiction
- archaeology
- anthropology
13. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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- science
14. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
15. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
16. The Bookshop Woman
By: Nanako Hanada
3.60
Format: 204 pages, ebook
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more
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- audiobook
17. A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
By: Hilary Mantel
4.33
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a noveli… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"Mourning is work. It is not simply being sad. It is naming your pain. It is witnessing the sorrow of others, drawing out the shape of loss. It is natural and necessary and there is no healing without…"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
"How nice, then, to go to Waterstones and not to have to disinfect yourself when you get home; yet sometimes as a reader I feel nostalgic for disorder, for the random and unpredictable. I find myself …"-Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
18. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
By: Ryan North
4.01
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true poten… read more
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- audiobook
19. The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
By: Steven Mithen
4.14
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the langua… read more
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- science
- linguistics
- history
- language
- evolution
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- sociology
- audiobook
20. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
By: Steven Johnson
3.90
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Map and How We Got to Now returns with the story of … read more
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- history
- audiobook
21. Höhenrausch: Das kurze Leben zwischen den Kriegen
By: Harald Jähner
4.38
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Deutschland, 1918. Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs, Revolution, Sieg der Demokratie. Zugleich beginnt ei… read more
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- history
- audiobook
22. The Stranger's Companion: A beautiful island . . . an impossible mystery
By: Mary Horlock
3.71
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
October 1933Sark is the smallest of the Channel Islands. With a population of 500 souls it has a re… read more
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23. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more
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24. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- history
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25. Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
By: Guy de la Bédoyère
3.55
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving … read more
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- nonfiction
26. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
By: Daniel Chandler
3.97
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more
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- history
27. The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People
By: Paul Seabright
3.92
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Rel… read more
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- history
- sociology
28. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
29. Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
By: J. Doyne Farmer
4.38
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on… read more
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- science
30. Tell Me When It's Over: An Insider's Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World
By: Paul A. Offit
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s top virologists, the definitive guide to understanding—and navigating—COVID… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
31. Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
By: Will M. Gervais
4.19
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
Does God exist? This straightforward question has spawned endless debate, ranging from apologists’ … read more
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