Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: David Wallace
3.85
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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1. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
2. Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
By: Simon Blackburn
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and… read more
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3. Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most impo… read more
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4. On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
By: Alexandra Horowitz
4.29
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening i… read more
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5. The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. I… read more
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6. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
By: Richard Dawkins
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchm… read more
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7. Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more
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8. The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehe… read more
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9. On Bullshit
By: Harry G. Frankfurt
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more
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10. Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction
By: Katherine Blundell
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Black holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious nature. This Very … read more
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11. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more
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12. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacheris a publishing first… read more
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13. Four Laws That Drive the Universe
By: Peter Atkins
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion… read more
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14. What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
By: Thomas Nagel
4.42
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questi… read more
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15. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
By: John Gribbin
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more
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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
16. Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
By: None
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginnin… read more
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17. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
By: None , Peter Just
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
"If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of S… read more
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18. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
By: Michio Kaku
4.10
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more
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19. 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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- physics
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20. 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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21. Math Without Numbers
By: Milo Beckman
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call math The only numbers in this book ar… read more
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22. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
23. The Popol Vuh
By: Anonymous
3.76
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
In the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: "Earth." There are no inhabitan… read more
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"The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in know…"-Anonymous, The Popol Vuh
"The first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter, the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with intelligence, they succeeded in k…"-Anonymous, The Popol Vuh
24. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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- science
25. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
By: Katie Mack
4.26
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look—in th… read more
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"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
26. Sprache und Sein
By: Kübra Gümüşay
4.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Kübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt. „Ein beein… read more
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"Wir haben die AfD so groß gemacht, wie sie es heute ist. Indem wir ihre Provokationen durch unsere Diskussionen legitimierten. Indem wir ihren Hass zur Meinung erkoren haben. Indem wir ihre Menschenf…"-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein
"Der Kampf um absolute Wahrheiten ist zu einer Aufmerksamkeitsmaschine geworden. Es ist heute möglich, seinen Lebensunterhalt damit zu bestreiten, Islamkritiker*in zu sein. Doch dieser Kampf um abschl…"-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein
"Und wenn diese Sprache, das Deutsche, nicht meine ist, dann ist es auch meine Schuld. Statt darum zu flehen, zu erbitten, sie möge Platz für uns schaffen, sollten wir uns diesen Platz nehmen. Wir sol…"-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein
"Fremdsprache ist nicht gleich Fremdsprache. Bilingual ist nicht gleich bilingual. Wenn Sie an Bilingualität denken, welche Sprachen fallen Ihnen ein? Deutsch und Französisch? Deutsch und Englisch? De…"-Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein
27. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
By: Frank Wilczek
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes … read more
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"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is…"-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
28. Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe (Hot Science)
By: Brian Clegg
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. Th… read more
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29. Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: David Wallace
3.85
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Very Short Introductions Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of physics is concerned with th… read more
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30. Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)
By: Tim Maudlin
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the wo… read more
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31. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
