The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
By: Ziya Tong
4.21
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look …
Want to Read $ 13.99"The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system."-Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
"The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system."-Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
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1. What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
By: Will Gompertz
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, art history with a sense of humorEvery year, millions of… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It is Duchamp who is to blame for the whole “is it art?"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Picasso is said to have once mused that it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to learn to paint like a child."-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"We'll be fine’, Pierre-Auguste Renoir said assertively. ‘We are good artist; we know that. Remember what Baudelaire said before he died: "Nothing can be done except little by little." That is what we…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Porque no pienso que la cuestion de fondo resida en juzgar si una obra nueva de arte contemporaneo es buena o mala: el tiempo se encargará de eso. es más importante comrpender de qué modo y por qué e…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
2. Consciousness Explained
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- science
"Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the animal world. (Clothes too, are part of the extended phenotype of Ho…"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
"There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course …"-Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained
3. Pietinia kronikas
By: Rimantas Kmita
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Siauliai. Vieno vaikino istorija iskart po nepriklausomybes. Kozos ir treningai, meile ir pinigai, … read more
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- audiobook
4. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
5. Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
By: Zach Weinersmith , Kelly Weinersmith
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Hardcover
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why do we not have a lunar c… read more
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6. Mokytojas
By: Karolis Klimas
4.08
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Karolis Klimas knygoje pasakoja apie jauną, maištingos dvasios žmogų, kurį gyvenimo prasmės paiešk… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- history
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
8. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- canada
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- science
9. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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- nature
- science
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
10. Ką veikia Japonija
By: Andrius Kleiva
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Kaip atrodo Japonija iš vidaus, ką apie save ir kitus galvoja salų šalies žmonės, kai lietuvis su j… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
12. On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
By: Naomi Klein
4.18
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"Too often, when politicians introduce climate policies divorced from a broader agenda of economic justice, the policies they introduce are actively unjust."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
"A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy."-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
13. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
By: Philip Freeman
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Han… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
By: Frank Wilczek
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes … read more
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- audiobook
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is…"-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
15. Junie
By: Chelene Knight
3.78
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more
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- canada
- audiobook
16. 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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- science
- technology
- psychology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. My Enemy's Cherry Tree
By: Ting-Kuo Wang
3.45
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
A man who has come from nothing, from poverty and loss, finds himself a beautiful wife, his dream l… read more
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18. The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
By: Ziya Tong
4.21
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look … read more
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- audiobook
- science
- history
- canada
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- environment
- nature
- technology
"The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system."-Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
19. Superior: The Return of Race Science
By: Angela Saini
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differe… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic …"-Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science
20. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By: Kyo Maclear
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
21. Mylimi kaulai
By: Kotryna Zylė
4.55
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
„Mums į šonus įsirėžusios skalbinių virvelės, tėvas nugara atsirėmęs į karsto dangtį, pagalvoju, ka… read more
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- audiobook
