The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
By: Dante Lauretta
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA’s historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an aster…
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1. Quantum Supremacy
By: Michio Kaku
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more
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- history
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2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
3. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. 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
- science
5. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- astronomy
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"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?
6. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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- science
- astronomy
- nonfiction
- space
"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
7. 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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- nonfiction
- science
8. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- science
"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
9. The Tusks of Extinction
By: Ray Nayler
3.85
Format: 192 pages, ebook
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more
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"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
10. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- science
11. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- technology
12. 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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- nonfiction
- science
13. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- science
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- space
- technology
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
14. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- science
15. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- science
16. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
17. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
18. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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- history
- technology
19. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
20. When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
By: Ashlee Vance
4.26
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolu… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- astronomy
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- technology
21. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- science
22. How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
By: Chris Balakrishnan
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, y… read more
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- nonfiction
- technology
23. The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
By: Dante Lauretta
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA’s historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an aster… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- technology
24. The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
By: John Strausbaugh
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- space
- science
25. The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A concise, definitive history of the duel between the US and China over the fate of Taiwan As ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. Hum
By: Helen Phillips
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more
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27. Bad River (Arliss Cutter, #6)
By: Marc Cameron
4.61
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From a remote village perched on Arctic permafrost to the Badlands of South Dakota, searching for a… read more
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28. The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
By: Robert Zubrin
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Zubrin, world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society, taps toda… read more
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- space
- science
29. Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
By: Edward Humes
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how indi… read more
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- science
30. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
By: Sara Imari Walker
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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31. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more
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