When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
By: Erik Asphaug
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world s most i…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Academics walk around with one or two big questions in their heads, which is why they lose track of time and bump into branches."-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
"Academics walk around with one or two big questions in their heads, which is why they lose track of time and bump into branches."-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
"As you read this book, keep in mind that you have the liberty to move on to a different paragraph or chapter as you please, aided by the illustrations that correspond to text in various chapters. Language is linear, but narrative need not be."-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
"As you read this book, keep in mind that you have the liberty to move on to a different paragraph or chapter as you please, aided by the illustrations that correspond to text in various chapters. Language is linear, but narrative need not be."-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
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1. Where Shadows Dance (Sebastian St. Cyr, #6)
By: C.S. Harris
3.95
Format: None pages,
London: July 1812.How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? That'… read more
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2. What Remains of Heaven (Sebastian St. Cyr, #5)
By: C.S. Harris
4.19
Format: 234 pages,
London, 1812. When the controversial, reform-minded Bishop of London is found bludgeoned to death i… read more
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3. A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)
By: None
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double mur… read more
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4. 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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5. A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
By: John Romer
3.78
Format: None pages,
The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, s… read more
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6. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson , Donald Goldsmith
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
"An accessible and extremely well-written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics… read more
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7. The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
By: Margalit Fox
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crac… read more
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8. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
9. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
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10. 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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"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
11. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
12. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
By: Bruce Goldfarb
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
14. The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating … read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
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15. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
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16. 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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"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
17. Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
By: Tracy Borman
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King H… read more
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18. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
By: Ken Follett
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Kindle Edition
“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civil… read more
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"I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long f…"-Ken Follett, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
19. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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20. Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
By: Kermit Pattison
4.13
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ard… read more
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21. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
By: Jennifer Raff
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how … read more
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22. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
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23. The Distant Dead
By: Heather Young
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a gr… read more
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24. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved
By: Kenneth Catania
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This book showcases some strange creatures with unusual capacities. The "star" of the show is the s… read more
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25. Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
By: Sarah Parcak
3.72
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of Archaeological Institute of America's Felicia A. Holton Book Award • Winner of the Phi Be… read more
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- space
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26. Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father
By: Peter Stark
4.01
Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author … read more
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27. Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
By: Alan Stern
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alan Stern and David Grinspoon take us behind the scenes of the science, politics, egos, and public… read more
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"When word of the astronomers’ vote in Prague reached the New Horizons team, reactions ranged from indifferent (“Who cares what astronomers think? They’re not the experts in this."-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
"The people who created this amazing mission of exploration chased their new horizons hard; they never let go of their dream; they put everything they had into it; and eventually they chased it down a…"-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
"No doubt, there was something that drew people to this particular launch—a sense of something epochal, a passing of the torch from Voyager to a new generation of explorers who had been inspired by Vo…"-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
"They had done it! Against all the struggles, doubts, and naysayers of the past 17 years, a spaceship had left Earth that day on its way to explore the Pluto system. With it rode the hopes of its team…"-Alan Stern, Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
28. When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
By: Erik Asphaug
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world s most i… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
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"Academics walk around with one or two big questions in their heads, which is why they lose track of time and bump into branches."-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
"As you read this book, keep in mind that you have the liberty to move on to a different paragraph or chapter as you please, aided by the illustrations that correspond to text in various chapters. Lan…"-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
29. The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
By: Donald R. Prothero
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's p… read more
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30. The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
By: Lixing Sun
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politicians Nature is rife with cheating… read more
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