How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
By: Melanie Challenger
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we nee…
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1. We All Fall Down (We All Fall Down, #1)
By: Eric Walters
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, is spending the day at his father’s wo… read more
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2. Between Here and April
By: Deborah Copaken Kogan
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When a deep-seated memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago dis… read more
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3. The Descent of Man
By: Grayson Perry
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys ar… read more
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4. 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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5. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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6. Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.24
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the New York Times bestselling aut… read more
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- science
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
By: David Edmonds
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
8. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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- history
- biology
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
9. Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
By: Ian Black
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
10. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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- audiobook
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
11. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
By: Annaka Harris
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "If you’ve ever wondered how you have the capacity to wonder, some fas… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
12. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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- biology
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- nature
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13. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
By: James Bridle
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more
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- biology
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
14. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
15. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
By: James E. Lovelock
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"The experience of watching your garden grow gives you some idea of how future AI systems will feel when observing human life."-James E. Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
"The pioneer and would-be spacefarer Elon Musk said he would like to die on Mars, though not on impact. Martian conditions suggest death on impact might be preferable."-James E. Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
"Even where we live, on the edge of the sea and far from any waste-disposal site, large vans come to collect the paper and other waste that is part of modern life. I have often wondered if the interne…"-James E. Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
16. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
By: Barbara McQuade
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more
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- history
- audiobook
17. The Greatest Evil is War
By: Chris Hedges
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondent… read more
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- history
- anthropology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, mes…"-Chris Hedges, The Greatest Evil is War
18. How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
By: Melanie Challenger
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A wide-ranging take on why humans have a troubled relationship with being an animal, and why we nee… read more
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- biology
- animals
- psychology
- anthropology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
19. El legado de los imperios: Cómo los imperios han dado forma al mundo
By: Samir Puri
3.20
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Por primera vez en milenios vivimos en un mundo sin imperios formales. Pero esto no significa que n… read more
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20. 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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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain
By: James Kingsland
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
When a computer goes wrong, we are told to turn it off and on again. In Am I Dreaming?, science jou… read more
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- psychology
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