How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
By: Daniel L. Everett
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how di…
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1. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
By: Andrew H. Knoll
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled wit… read more
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2. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
By: Matt Ridley
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queenfrom Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep r… read more
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3. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
By: Guy Deutscher
4.75
Format: None pages,
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny qu… read more
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4. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
By: Steven Pinker
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and… read more
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5. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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6. Forged: Writing in the Name of God
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.50
Format: None pages,
s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Timesbestse… read more
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7. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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8. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
By: Guy Deutscher
2.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaveswith the science of The Language Instinct, an original … read more
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9. Great North Road
By: Peter F. Hamilton
3.89
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humani… read more
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10. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and re… read more
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11. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
By: Kate Fox
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and fo… read more
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12. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
By: Thor Hanson
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2016 PNBA Book Award A finalist for the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in… read more
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13. Opium: A History
By: Martin Booth
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcoti… read more
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14. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
By: Bertrand Russell , Paul Edwards
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned wi… read more
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15. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
By: Graham Farmelo
3.00
Format: 9 pages,
Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of qua… read more
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16. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- audiobook
17. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- evolution
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
18. The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
By: Antonio J. Méndez
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported… read more
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19. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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20. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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21. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
4.24
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intel… read more
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- history
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"Vision is not so much about just looking but knowing what to look for. It's experience."-Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
22. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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23. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more
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24. How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
By: Daniel L. Everett
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how di… read more
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25. The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
By: Byron Reese
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“ The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers … read more
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26. Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language
By: David Shariatmadari
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is… read more
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27. A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
By: Fay Bound Alberti
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A… read more
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28. The Catalpa Rescue: The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history
By: Peter FitzSimons
4.29
Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Austr… read more
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29. The World in Conflict: Understanding the world's troublespots
By: John Andrews
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
So far in the twenty-first century, the USA and its allies have invaded Afghanistan; Russia has wag… read more
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30. The Accidental War (Dread Empire's Fall #4)
By: Walter Jon Williams
3.94
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a r… read more
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31. Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
By: Aminata Conteh-Biger
4.28
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
'The best and the worst of our shared humanity...breathtaking and heartbreaking.' The Hon. Dame Que… read more
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