The Seven Measures of the World
By: Piero Martin
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand…
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1. Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 768 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars f… read more
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"[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"Wherever you go, there we are. It wasn't true. But it made him feel better. That was what words could do."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it— it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That’s po…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
"The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecr…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
2. Finance and the Good Society
By: Robert J. Shiller
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful afte… read more
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3. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
By: Ray Kurzweil
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
The bold futurist and bestselling author explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering th… read more
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4. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
5. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
6. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
7. 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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- science
- nonfiction
- physics
- audiobook
8. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
9. The Beautiful Ones
By: Prince
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"-Prince, The Beautiful Ones
10. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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- history
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- physics
- science
11. A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
By: Johannes Krause
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
12. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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- science
14. In a Flight of Starlings
By: Giorgio Parisi
3.44
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In this enchanting little book, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodo… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings
15. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
16. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
By: Peter J. Hotez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
17. Fa bene o fa male? Manuale di autodifesa alimentare
By: Dario Bressanini
4.05
Format: 315 pages, ebook
Dai salumi «cancerogeni» al famigerato olio di palma, dai misteriosi «zuccheri aggiunti» al temutis… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
By: Stephen Westaby
4.30
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the p… read more
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- history
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19. The Seven Measures of the World
By: Piero Martin
3.65
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand… read more
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20. Eureka!
By: Cody Cassidy
3.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Il fuoco, i vestiti, le armi; il cibo, l’alcol, la scrittura; la medicina, la ruota, le nuove terre… read more
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