The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
By: Thomas R. Cech
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A Nobel Prize–winning scientist reveals biology’s most transformative achievements in decades―a Dou…
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1. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more
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2. 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
3. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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- nature
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
4. 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
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- nature
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5. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
6. 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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- nonfiction
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7. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
8. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- nonfiction
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12. The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
By: Thomas R. Cech
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A Nobel Prize–winning scientist reveals biology’s most transformative achievements in decades―a Dou… read more
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- nature
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13. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
By: Philip Ball
4.28
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to en… read more
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- biology
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"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
14. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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- medicine
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15. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
By: Ernest Scheyder
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
16. Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World
By: Jamie Metzl
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A bold, inspiring, and multi-disciplinary exploration of cutting-edge human knowledge and capabilit… read more
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17. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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18. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
19. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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20. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
By: Raj Shah
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known… read more
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21. From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
By: Ben Stanger
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Inside the quest to unlock the mysteries of development―and find the key to transforming our future… read more
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