On Color
By: David Scott Kastan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited a…
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1. Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
By: None
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
"Reveals the strange and wondrous adaptations birds rely on to get by." --National Audubon Society … read more
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2. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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- history
3. Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
By: Francine Prose
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-197… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
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4. Color: A Natural History of the Palette
By: Victoria Finlay
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saff… read more
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- art
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5. The Architecture of Happiness
By: Alain de Botton
3.57
Format: None pages,
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our en… read more
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6. The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds
By: Leigh Calvez
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
A naturalist probes the forest, mainly at night, to comprehend the secret lives of owls in this boo… read more
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7. Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
By: Bridget Quinn
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with th… read more
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8. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
By: Ross King
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelange… read more
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9. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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10. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… 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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- audiobook
12. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- design
- reference
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"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
13. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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14. Agent 355
By: Marie Benedict
3.73
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more
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15. Orwell's Roses
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more
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"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
16. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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17. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
By: Steven Kotler
4.22
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective,… read more
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"Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intr…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Guilford also realized that divergent thinking wasn't entirely free wheeling: It had four core characteristics. Fluency, the ability to produce a great number of ideas in a short time-frame; flexibil…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
"Once, unfortunately, in a crisis situation (as the Greek poet Archilochus pointed out so long ago) we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Once again, th…"-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
18. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
By: Matt Alt
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that ca… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- art
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- art design
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- audiobook
20. The School of Life: An Emotional Education
By: Alain de Botton
4.25
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life... Introduce… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
21. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show
By: Tommy Tomlinson
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more
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- history
- audiobook
22. Self Care By The Signs
By: Valerie Tejeda
3.61
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins A soothing guide to living well by harmonizing your self-car… read more
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23. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By: Richard Thompson Ford
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that a… read more
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- history
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24. On Color
By: David Scott Kastan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited a… read more
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25. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
By: W. David Marx
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
26. The World According to Color: A Cultural History
By: James Fox
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' … read more
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27. Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts
By: John Barelli
3.36
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, John B… read more
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- history
- audiobook
28. The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
By: Kit Yates
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From birthdays to birth rates to how we perceive the passing of time, mathematical patterns shape o… read more
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29. How Colors Affect You: What Science Reveals
By: William Lidwell
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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30. The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series
By: Anthony M. Bean
3.72
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this (book). For more than 30 years, The Legend of Zelda—which imm… read more
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31. The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
By: Amy Webb
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named one of The New Yorker's BEST BOOKS OF 2022 SO FAR The next frontier in technology is inside … read more
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