A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
By: Bill Mesler
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery…
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1. Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
By: Richard L. Currier
3.98
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the hum… read more
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"In the modern world, the threat to human life and safety now comes almost exclusively from other human beings."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
"The use of pictures, designs, words, and music to communicate thoughts and ideas is surely one of the most unique of all human behaviors."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
"The current threats to the biosphere are more than the consequences of human technologies. They are also the expression of Homo sapiens' animal nature."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
"For all of its technological prowess, our species is still motivated by ancient animal instincts, including the drive to expand and multiply to the limits of the possible."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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- science
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- popular science
- audiobook
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
3. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
4. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
By: Leonard Susskind
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo… read more
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- physics
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5. Origins: The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
By: None
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of… read more
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- audiobook
6. Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
By: Daniel H. Wilson
3.25
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world… read more
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7. Hallucinations
By: Oliver Sacks
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty hou… read more
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8. Callander Square (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #2)
By: Anne Perry
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Murders just don't happen in fashionable areas like Callander Square-but these two have. The police… read more
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9. Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
By: Michael S. Neiberg
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed … read more
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10. 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
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- science
11. 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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- audiobook
12. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
By: Becky Smethurst
4.38
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more
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- popular science
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- audiobook
13. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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- history
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14. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- history
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15. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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16. The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
By: Paul Strathern
3.83
Format: 336 pages, ebook
An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philoso… read more
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17. A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
By: Bill Mesler
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery… read more
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- history of science
- popular science
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18. Homo biologicus
By: Pier Vincenzo Piazza
3.98
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
Da millenni ci consideriamo l'unica specie costituita da un'essenza immateriale e un corpo. Da una … read more
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19. The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
By: Emily Prokop
3.45
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Learn the fascinating history and trivia behind the everyday items we take for granted—from the hos… read more
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20. Third Thoughts
By: Steven Weinberg
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and society by the Nobel Prize–winning aut… read more
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