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 …
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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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- science
- nonfiction
- technology
"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
2. Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
By: None , P.D. James
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established pu… read more
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"Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one."-None, Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
3. Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
By: Sam Kean
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story t… read more
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- history
- historical
- chemistry
- nonfiction
- science
"Don’t damn people to hell, damn them to Venus."-Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
4. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
By: Oliver Sacks , V.S. Ramachandran , Sandra Blakeslee
2.90
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
- science
5. Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
By: Peter Watts
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsigh… read more
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6. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
By: Sam Kean
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more
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- history
- historical
- chemistry
- nonfiction
- science
7. The Double Helix
By: James D. Watson
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutio… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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8. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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9. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1
By: Ryoko Kui
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a… read more
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10. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.46
Format: 272 pages,
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day … read more
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11. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
12. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- physics
- science
13. 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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- history
- technology
- nonfiction
- 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
14. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
15. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- physics
- science
"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
16. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- nonfiction
- science
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17. ダンジョン飯 2 [Dungeon Meshi 2]
By: Ryoko Kui
4.45
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
ゴーレムを、たおして耕せ！ 餓死の恐れと隣り合わせで、ダンジョンを進むライオス一行。 地下３階で彼らを待っていたのは、ゾンビに幽霊、生ける絵画や、 ゴーレムといった食べられないモンスター… read more
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18. Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
By: David de Jong
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
By: Oliver Milman
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
20. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
By: Daniel Yergin
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
21. Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3
By: Ryoko Kui
4.45
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New dangers and new recipes await the party in the third installment of the utterly unique and ende… read more
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22. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
23. Math with Bad Drawings
By: Ben Orlin
4.22
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Smart, hilarious, and engaging, MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a delightful re-education in math that em… read more
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- physics
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"Reality is a lovely starting point, but the coolest destinations lie far beyond it."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
"There are two kinds of people in life: those who like crude dualities and those who do not."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
"It is a funny paradox of design: utility breeds beauty. There is elegance in efficiency, a visual pleasure in things that just barely work."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
"Science has never been defined by infallibility or superhuman perfection. It has always been about healthy skepticism, about putting every hypothesis to the test."-Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings
24. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- technology
25. The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
By: Guy Leschziner
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner leads readers through the five senses and h… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"[...] the absence of sensation can be devastating. But an absence of pain – the loudest of our sensations – sounds like a blessing, not a curse. Pain screams its way into our consciousness, blotting …"-Guy Leschziner, The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
26. 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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- nonfiction
- physics
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27. Yours for the Taking
By: Gabrielle Korn
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more
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28. 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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- science
- history
- world history
- historical
- chemistry
- nonfiction
- history of science
- physics
- technology
29. The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
By: Suzie Sheehy
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of… read more
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- science
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- physics
- technology
30. Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
By: Jacob L. Wright
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
"A revelation, even to those who have read the Bible for a lifetime! "We witness how in the afterm… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Law without a story was ineffective."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"In the Song (of Songs), love defies death itself."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"Both then and now, the most powerful means of creating community is to tell stories."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
"Without partnership between two, it is not realistic to expect a community of thousands to survive let alone thrive."-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
31. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
By: Elle Reeve
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
