The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal (Life of the Past)
By: Simon J. Knell
3.58
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a "riddl…
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1. Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
By: Lee Berger , John Hawks , Harrison Ford , Douglas Chadwick
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolu… read more
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2. What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
By: Jean Clottes , None , Robert D. Martin , Oliver Y. Martin
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and r… read more
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3. Played to Death (Scott Drayco Mystery Series #1)
By: B.V. Lawson
3.91
Format: 192 pages,
A Shamus Award Finalist and Named Best Mystery in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Still … read more
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4. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
By: Nancy Isenberg
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more
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5. Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
By: John Pickrell
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what… read more
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6. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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7. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
8. The Red Ripper
By: Peter Conradi
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
A Moscow-based journalist explores the flaws and successes of Soviet law enforcement, as he examine… read more
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9. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
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"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
10. Night Shadows (Forbidden Iceland #3)
By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a myst… read more
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11. Extinction
By: Douglas Preston
4.14
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more
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"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"-Douglas Preston, Extinction
12. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
By: Steven Pinker
4.20
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more
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"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
13. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.52
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more
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"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
14. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
15. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
16. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
By: Edward Dolnick
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more
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"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
17. Echogenesis
By: Gary Gibson
4.09
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
An alien world teeming with deadly life. And fifteen strangers with no memory of how they came to b… read more
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18. Dark Sky (Joe Pickett, #21)
By: C.J. Box
4.46
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett must a… read more
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19. The Anvil
By: Christopher Coates
4.03
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Deadly radiation from a passing comet is about to destroy life on Earth. In desperation, the U.… read more
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20. The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
By: A.J. Hackwith
3.82
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors re… read more
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"The best stories are bled."-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
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"Beat an archangel, divert war, save our souls. Simple as that?"-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
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21. A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
By: Johannes Krause
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary … read more
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22. The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)
By: Mark Lawrence
3.81
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. On Ab… read more
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"Sometimes even the blind must wait and see."-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)
"There seemed nothing else to say. Sometimes all your words are the wrong shape and none of them will fit into the silence left when the conversation pauses."-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)
"She didn't know if the priests' poison was starting to infect her, or if this was just what growing up was - a series of compromises that twisted a child's idealism into something shameful."-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)
23. A Pale Light in the Black (NeoG, #1)
By: K.B. Wagers
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The rollicking first entry in a unique science fiction series that introduces the Near-Earth Orbita… read more
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24. The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal (Life of the Past)
By: Simon J. Knell
3.58
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a "riddl… read more
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25. Extinct Languages
By: Johannes Friedrich
3.49
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A noted linguist examines extinct languages, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the mysteries of as-yet u… read more
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