The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
By: Andrew Blum
3.49
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more
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2. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
By: Dava Sobel
3.80
Format: 8 pages,
#1 New York Timesbestselling author Dava Sobel returns with the captivating, little-known true stor… read more
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3. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
By: Jon Gertner
4.14
Format: 152 pages,
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs--officially, the research… read more
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4. Homer's Odyssey
By: Gwen Cooper
4.23
Format: 690 pages,
Once in nine lives, something extraordinary happens... The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was anothe… read more
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5. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed someth… read more
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6. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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7. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- history
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- nature
- audiobook
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
8. Nobody's Sweetheart Now (Lady Adelaide Mystery #1)
By: Maggie Robinson
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The first mystery book in a rollicking new historical cozy series! When Lady Adelaide's dinner part… read more
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- audiobook
9. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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- audiobook
- technology
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- science
10. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- environment
- science
11. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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- history
- audiobook
"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
12. The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
By: Headline
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of t…"-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
"Decades later, it's striking to see the archival center clearly articulating the value of collections like Estelle's, using words that no one in the archdiocese could muster at the time of the sale: …"-Headline, The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey
13. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- adult
- nature
- technology
14. Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
By: Christie Aschwanden
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller “The definitive tour through a bewildering jungle o… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
15. 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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- history
- science
16. Grave Importance (Dr. Greta Helsing #3)
By: Vivian Shaw
4.14
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, … read more
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"All the forecasts were tentatively hopeful about the idea of it not actually continuing to rain for the remainder of ever, but Varney had his doubts. It really did seem slightly sinister."-Vivian Shaw, Grave Importance (Dr. Greta Helsing #3)
"Varney and Tefnakhte looked at Greta. After a moment she sighed, pushed her hair back. 'I don't know why everyone seems to think I'm the one in charge here; we're all equally making this up as we go …"-Vivian Shaw, Grave Importance (Dr. Greta Helsing #3)
"Grisaille let go of Ruthven and flopped face downward onto the duvet, with a creak of springs. 'I am never leaving this bed again,' he said, muffled by the covers. 'I am amalgamated with this bed. Th…"-Vivian Shaw, Grave Importance (Dr. Greta Helsing #3)
"The mummy Amennakht was over three thousand years old and on his third set of replacement fingers, but this didn't severely impact his typing speed. On a good day, he was capable of about sixty-five …"-Vivian Shaw, Grave Importance (Dr. Greta Helsing #3)
17. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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- adult
- history
- audiobook
18. Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
By: Jeremy Brown
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, ex… read more
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19. The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
By: Andrew Blum
3.49
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the w… read more
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- history of science
- adult
- environment
- nature
- technology
20. Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
By: Philipp Blom
3.58
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixtee… read more
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- nature
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- environment
- science
21. Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
By: Kate Clancy
3.97
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Men… read more
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