100 Stars That Explain the Universe
By: Florian Freistetter
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Visit one hundred extraordinary stars that unveil the mysteries of the universe Our own Sun—a sour…
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1. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
By: Simon Singh
4.30
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping hist… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Po první světové válce se Spojenci nebáli nikoho."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"...říká se, že zkratka NSA ve skutečnosti znamená „Never Say Anything"-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"„Každý, kdo přemýšlí o kvantové mechanice, aniž by se mu zatočila hlava, jí nerozumí."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
"Polský úspěch v prolomení Enigmy byl dán třemi faktory: strachem, matematikou a špionáží."-Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
2. Nod
By: Adrian Barnes
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Dawn breaks and no one in the world has slept the night before. Or almost no one. A few people, per… read more
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3. Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
By: Andrea Wulf
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardenersnow gives us an enlightening chronicle of the … read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- science
4. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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5. Measuring the World
By: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the live… read more
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6. 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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- nonfiction
- history
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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
7. 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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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- audiobook
8. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- astronomy
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- audiobook
"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
9. The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, a terri… read more
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- audiobook
10. 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)
11. La Bombe
By: Alcante
4.56
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
L'incroyable histoire vraie de l'arme la plus effroyable jamais créée.Le 6 août 1945, une bombe ato… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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12. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
13. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- history
- adult
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- audiobook
14. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more
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15. The Secret Lives of Planets: A User's Guide to the Solar System
By: Paul Murdin
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Everyone's been looking up at the night sky this year as we've celebrated 50 years since Neil Armst… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
16. Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
By: Natalie Starkey
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. … read more
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17. 100 Stars That Explain the Universe
By: Florian Freistetter
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Visit one hundred extraordinary stars that unveil the mysteries of the universe Our own Sun—a sour… read more
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- adult
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18. Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
By: Heino Falcke
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The International Bestseller On April 10, 2019, award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke presented… read more
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- astronomy
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19. The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
By: Maggie Aderin-Pocock
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In The Book of the Moon , her lucidly written, comprehensive guide to Earth’s satellite, space scie… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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"Jupiter was the god of sky and thunder and by all accounts a bit of a lad."-Maggie Aderin-Pocock, The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
"...Pluto is also tidally locked to Charon, so it always presents the same face to its moon too. It is like the two are staring at each other, never breaking their gaze, as they waltz around the solar…"-Maggie Aderin-Pocock, The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
"This means that most of the lunar surface material has a consistency that is finer than granulated sugar. The full mix would actually be a combination of granulated, superfine, and powdered sugar—bu…"-Maggie Aderin-Pocock, The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
"...the egg analogy does not work well for the Moon's structure. Here, a better analogy would be a rather boring sugar-coated chocolate-chip muffin. I say boring because the muffin has just a single c…"-Maggie Aderin-Pocock, The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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21. Cosmology for the Curious
By: Delia Perlov
4.41
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
This book is an introductory text for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. … read more
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