Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
By: Christopher Wanjek
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Telegraph Best Book of the Year A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-futur…
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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.86
Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more
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"Why should I discuss it with you?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
2. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to a… read more
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- space
"Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
3. A Man on the Moon
By: Michael Kramer , Bronson Pinchot , Tom Hanks , Andrew Chaikin
4.49
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
A celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first moon landing offers an accessible histor… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- science
"It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century," Cernan said, "and spliced it into the 1960s." That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we weren'…"-Michael Kramer, A Man on the Moon
4. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more
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- space
- audiobook
5. Outland
By: Dennis E. Taylor
3.86
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
"When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six university students and their experimenta… read more
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- audiobook
6. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
By: Brian M. Fagan
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
7. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
By: William R. Trotter
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
In 1939, tiny Finland waged war - the kind of war that spawns legends - against the mighty Soviet U… read more
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8. Of Ants and Dinosaurs
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm
3.87
Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body… read more
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- audiobook
"If the entire history of the Earth were condensed into a single day, one hour would equate to 200 million years, one minute to 3.3 million years and one second to 55,000 years. Life would appear as e…"-Liu Cixin, Of Ants and Dinosaurs
9. Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
By: James Mahaffey
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. W… read more
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10. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
By: Dan Jones
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the knights Templar--holy warriors, bankers, priests, heretics--by the bests… read more
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11. A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 (A History of Britain, #1)
By: Simon Schama
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of… read more
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12. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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13. Planet of the Apes
By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more
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14. At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
By: Michael Brooks
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Free Radicalstakes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial … read more
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15. King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
By: James Clavell
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. He… read more
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"And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunni…"-James Clavell, King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
16. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
By: Walter Isaacson
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people k… read more
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17. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
18. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- technology
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
20. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- audiobook
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
21. 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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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
By: Daniel Suarez
4.19
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneer… read more
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- space
- audiobook
">> "is this cup half empty or half full, Mr. Tighe?" << "It's completely full if you include the air" —James Tighe"-Daniel Suarez, Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
23. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
By: Michio Kaku
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future i… read more
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- futurism
- nonfiction
- astronomy
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"The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Astronomers suspect that the Oort Cloud could extend as far as three light-years from our solar system. That is more than halfway to the nearest stars, the Centauri triple star system, which is sligh…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
25. Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space
By: Martin Elvis
4.13
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space Human travel i… read more
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- nonfiction
- space
26. AI Ethics
By: Mark Coeckelbergh
3.69
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype … read more
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- audiobook
27. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
By: Kathryn Paige Harden
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) A provocative and timely case for how the science of gene… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We are living in a golden age of genetic research, with new technologies permitting the easy collection of genetic data from millions upon millions of people and the rapid development of new statisti…"-Kathryn Paige Harden, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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. The Planets
By: Andrew Cohen
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listin… read more
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30. Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
By: Christopher Wanjek
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Telegraph Best Book of the Year A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-futur… read more
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31. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.38
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more
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