Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
By: Ashley Ward
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Ou…
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1. Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
By: David J. Linden
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author examines how our sense of touch and emotion are interconnecte… read more
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2. 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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- history
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3. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- audiobook
4. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
5. 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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- 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
6. 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
7. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
By: Shahnaz Habib
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more
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"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
8. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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9. Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
By: Avi Loeb
3.51
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
“The world's leading alien hunter” — New York Times Magazine From acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist… read more
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10. What I Learned About Investing from Darwin
By: Pulak Prasad
4.58
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are un… read more
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11. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
By: Amy C. Edmondson
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more
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12. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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- health
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
13. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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- audiobook
14. The God Desire
By: David Baddiel
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more
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- audiobook
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
15. 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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16. 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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17. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
By: Sally Adee
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more
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18. Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond
By: Laura Mersini-Houghton
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"A riveting tour of the cosmos from one of the brightest minds in astrophysics." —The Washington Po… read more
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19. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
20. Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
By: Ashley Ward
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Ou… read more
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21. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
By: James Carl Nelson
3.55
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War I: the story of America’s year-long invas… read more
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