17 best-selling nonfiction books like Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality by Anil Ananthaswamy

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Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

By: Anil Ananthaswamy

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Smithsonian 's Favorite Books of 2018 One of Forbes 's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Phys…

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1. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment

By: Robert Wright

3.64

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more

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  • philosophy
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2. The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat

By: Vali Nasr

4.10

Format: 224 pages, ebook

In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali… read more

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3. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

By: Brian Greene

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more

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"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

4. Reality is Not What it Seems

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.17

Format: 120 pages,

From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more

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5. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Pr… read more

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6. A Perfect Spy

By: John Le Carré

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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7. A Briefer History of Time

By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scie… read more

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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"طالما أن الكون له بداية سيكون في استطاعتنا افتراض أن له خالقًا. أما إذا كان الكون حقا مكتملا في حد ذاته، وليس له حد ولا حرف، فلن تكون له بداية ولا نهاية: فهو ببساطة موجود."

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

"There is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around…"

-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time

8. Macbeth

By: Jo Nesbø

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a dark, rainy northern town, Nesbo's Macbethpits the ambitions of a corrupt policeman agains… read more

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9. 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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  • audiobook
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10. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

By: Donald D. Hoffman

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim th… read more

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"Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans."

-Donald D. Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

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11. 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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12. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more

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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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13. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

By: Sean Carroll

4.07

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more

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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"

-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

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14. 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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15. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields

By: Sean Carroll

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted… read more

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16. Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

By: Scott Patterson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A Wall Street Journal bestseller Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fasci… read more

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17. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

By: Brian Greene

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of … read more

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"Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones."

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

"The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, e…"

-Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

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18. What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

By: Adam Becker

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe… read more

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"Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than …"

-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

"Philosophy has an image problem. Philosophers are thought to be mystics, religious figures, bullshit artists—anything divorced from reality... Why is philosophy held in such contempt by many physicis…"

-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

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19. Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

By: Lee Smolin

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A daring new vision of the quantum universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that may… read more

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"Put this way, almost every physical observable potentially conveys information. This definition would imply that "information" is present every time the values of two physical variables are correlate…"

-Lee Smolin, Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

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20. Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

By: Anil Ananthaswamy

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Smithsonian 's Favorite Books of 2018 One of Forbes 's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Phys… read more

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21. Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World

By: John Gribbin

3.96

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

'An accessible primer on all things quantum' -Sunday Times Quantum physics is strange. It tells … read more

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality by Anil Ananthaswamy

Transform Your Habits

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

4.09

Transform Your Habits

A Briefer History of Time

Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Quantum Supremacy

Michio Kaku

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Donald D. Hoffman

3.86

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Anil Seth

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

Donald D. Hoffman

3.86

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