23 must-read nonfiction books like Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table (Bloomsbury Sigma) by Kit Chapman

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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 …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table (Bloomsbury Sigma) by Kit Chapman , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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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

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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)

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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

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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
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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
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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
  • science

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
Cover of What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2) by Randall Munroe

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
Cover of Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven H. Strogatz

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

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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

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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

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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
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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
Cover of The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin

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

Cover of Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 3 by Ryoko Kui

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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Cover of Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell

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
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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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  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
"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

Cover of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

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
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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

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

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
  • science
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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
Cover of The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World by Suzie Sheehy

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
Cover of Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins by Jacob L. Wright

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

Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

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

17 Top history books like Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table (Bloomsbury Sigma) by Kit Chapman

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0.00

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