The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
By: Jo Marchant
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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1. Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
By: Alain de Botton
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist be… read more
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2. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more
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"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
3. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
By: Michelle Nijhuis
4.10
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more
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4. 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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5. 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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"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
6. For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
By: Sasha Sagan
4.10
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
"What is the meaning of life? Sagan finds its meaning everywhere--with her family, around the world… read more
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"Every loss you withstand in your life reopens all the others."-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Every single one of us appears seemingly from nowhere and then, eventually, returns to nowhere. We are conceived, we grow, and we die, but what happens beyond that is a great, haunting mystery. We gr…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"My parents taught me that the provable, tangible, verifiable things were sacred, that sometimes the most astonishing ideas are clearly profound, but when they get labeled as "facts", we lose sight of…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
"Nature is full of patterns and we humans love finding them, creating them, repeating them. This is the core of language, math, music, and even ritual, which is the repetition of words or actions deem…"-Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
7. The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
By: Sarah Stewart Johnson
3.97
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-o… read more
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8. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more
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"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
9. Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)
By: Elizabeth Bear
3.79
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. … read more
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"Rest,"-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)
"I felt even more hollow than I had."-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)
"Good thing for me you’re not a murderer."-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)
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10. The Bookshop Woman
By: Nanako Hanada
3.60
Format: 204 pages, ebook
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more
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11. Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
By: Susanne Foitzik
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing … read more
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12. The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
By: Tom Higham
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris… read more
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13. The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
By: Emily M. Levesque
4.14
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
The story of the people who see beyond the stars Humans from the earliest civilizations were spe… read more
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"Why do we study the universe? Why do we look at the sky and ask questions, build telescopes, travel to the very limits of our planet to answer them? Why do we stargaze? We don't know exactly why, but…"-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"In a community that so deeply values the planet we're on, the summits we visit, and the human curiosity we bring to the skies, I have to hope we can find a way to respect and share our own humanity, …"-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"An astoundingly perfect black void sat where the sun had been, surrounded by a jagged white nimbus of light that nearly brought me to tears. This was the solar corona, the hot outer edges of the sun'…"-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
"Dinner on Kitt Peak wrapped up in time for everyone to head outside and watch the sunset together before scattering to the telescope, a time-honored tradition of astronomers everywhere. If asked, we …"-Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
14. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
By: Johan Eklöf
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more
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"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
15. Here & Hereafter: Afterlife Lessons For Meaningful Living
By: Tyler Henry
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Do you want to live more meaningfully, and in turn fulfill your life’s potential? Do you want to ha… read more
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16. Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
By: Steven Johnson
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of mod… read more
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17. The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
By: Michael Brooks
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of … read more
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18. Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World
By: Craig Foster
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
“ Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rat… read more
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19. The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
By: Jo Marchant
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Best Book of 2020 NPR A Best Book of 2020 The Economist A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Smit… read more
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20. The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
By: Suzie Sheehy
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of… read more
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21. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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