Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
By: Rob Dunn
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
By: Sherwin B. Nuland
4.07
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the def… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and so is every death."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force"-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Not death but disease is the real enemy, disease the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more
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- audiobook
- biology
- food
- nonfiction
- science
3. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
By: Amy Stewart , Briony Morrow-Cribbs , Jonathon Rosen
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes p… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
4. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
By: Dan Barber
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Barber explores the evolution of American food from the 'first plate,' or industrially-produced, me… read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- science
5. Coal: A Human History
By: Barbara Freese
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds … read more
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6. Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance an… read more
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7. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- audiobook
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
8. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- science
9. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
10. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
11. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
12. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
13. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- history
- food
- nonfiction
- anthropology
14. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
- audiobook
15. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
16. Black Hole Survival Guide
By: Janna Levin
4.00
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative an… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"A bare black hole is pure empty spacetime—no atoms, light, strings, or particles of any kind, dark or bright. It’s empty space—or, in physics slang, the vacuum."-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
"You send messages in vain to no one. But send them anyway. Your epiphanies are forever lost in the catastrophic singularity. But send them, please, your acts of defiance."-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
"imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. no planets in view. no spacecraft. no distant stars. no source of light. imagine the latent terror, the quiet of space, the strange sensation of floating,…"-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
"Black holes are a gift, both physically and theoretically. They are detectable on the farthest reaches of the observable universe. They anchor galaxies, providing a center for our own galactic pinwhe…"-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
17. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
18. House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.51
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to a… read more
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- audiobook
19. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health
By: Anupam B. Jena
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- anthropology
- nonfiction
- science
21. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
22. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
23. The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By: Roman Mars
4.03
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the cr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"A round of applause for circles."-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
"For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can …"-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
24. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
26. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession
By: Ned Boulting
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The story of an obsession. When cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a length of Pathé news film… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
By: Jackie Higgins
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds , this “ masterpiece of science … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
- audiobook
29. Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
By: Rob Dunn
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez offer new perspectives on why food is enjoyable and how the pursuit of … read more
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- science
- food history
- history
- biology
- evolution
- anthropology
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
By: Henry Sanderson
4.12
Format: 304 pages, ebook
'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new w… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
31. Cheese, Wine, and Bread: Discovering the Magic of Fermentation in England, Italy, and France
By: Katie Quinn
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“Open-hearted and buoyant, the book weaves together her hands-on experiences in Europe and introduc… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
