Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth
By: Nicholas Crane
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The world-changing true story of the mission to discover the shape of the earth . . . 'This rollic…
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By: Richard L. Currier
3.98
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the hum… read more
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"In the modern world, the threat to human life and safety now comes almost exclusively from other human beings."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
"The use of pictures, designs, words, and music to communicate thoughts and ideas is surely one of the most unique of all human behaviors."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
"The current threats to the biosphere are more than the consequences of human technologies. They are also the expression of Homo sapiens' animal nature."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
"For all of its technological prowess, our species is still motivated by ancient animal instincts, including the drive to expand and multiply to the limits of the possible."-Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
By: Dan Flores
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more
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3. The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2)
By: Mary Stewart
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted b… read more
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4. Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
By: Tim Townsend
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
Mission at Nurembergis Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the… read more
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5. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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6. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
By: Stephen Kotkin
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more
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7. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
By: Michael Pollan
3.73
Format: 192 pages,
In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has establish… read more
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8. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize ho… read more
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9. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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10. Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
“If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the … read more
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11. Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country
By: John Kampfner
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and entertaining exploration of the country that Britons love to hate by one of our m… read more
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12. 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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13. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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14. When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
By: Ashlee Vance
4.26
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolu… read more
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15. Zenith Man
By: Jennifer Haigh
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition
Whatever had been going on inside the shuttered old house, the couple who lived there kept it to th… read more
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16. Vikings!: Scandinavians Who Shaped the World
By: Scott McCormick
3.93
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17. Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond
By: A.J. Balaam
3.72
Format: 540 pages, Kindle Edition
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18. Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth
By: Nicholas Crane
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The world-changing true story of the mission to discover the shape of the earth . . . 'This rollic… read more
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19. The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
By: Astrid Karlsen Scott
4.40
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest: The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
By: Doug Macdougall
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger , an expedition that laid the foundations f… read more
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