Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
By: Peter Atkins
3.50
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundament…
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1. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Until the late 1980s it was believed that consciousness could not be investigated by objective expe… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe."-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
"Introspection makes our conscious motives and strategies transparent to us, while we have no sure means of deciphering them in others. Yet we never genuinely know our true selves. We remain largely i…"-Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
2. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
3. Human Universe
By: Brian Cox , Andrew Cohen
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nucle… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
4. The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. I… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- physics
- science
5. 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
By: Alanna Collen
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body,… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
6. This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
By: John Brockman
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills a… read more
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7. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
By: Michio Kaku
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us… read more
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8. The Invincible
By: Stanisław Lem
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
An interstellar 2nd-class cruiser called Invincible, lands on Regis III which seems bleakly uninhab… read more
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9. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
10. Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
By: Lee Smolin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject."--Scientific American In Thr… read more
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11. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more
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12. Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World
By: None
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Physics is a complex, even daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying--even thrilling. And li… read more
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13. The Backyard Astronomer's Guide
By: Terence Dickinson
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
An essential reference tool for both beginning and veteran sky observers. Drawing on decades of sta… read more
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14. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
15. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
4.52
Format: 934 pages, Kindle Edition
#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL B… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
16. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
17. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
By: David A. Sinclair
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taugh… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
18. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
By: Andrew Chen
4.19
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen H… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
By: Daniel J. Levitin
3.93
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Debunks the idea that aging inevitably brings infirmity and unhappiness and instead offers a trove … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Spend time with people who encourage you to grow, to explore new things, and who take joy in your successes."-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"The Greek physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus discovered the nervous system in 322 BC, placing the seat of thought in the brain. It might be fair to say that they were the first neuroscientists. P…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
"A large part of people who manage to stay young, in spite of their chronological age, relates to synaptic plasticity - the ability of the brain to make and form new connections. As we've seen, plasti…"-Daniel J. Levitin, Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
20. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
21. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
By: Gregory Zuckerman
4.03
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the … read more
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- nonfiction
22. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- astronomy
- physics
- science
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
23. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
By: Will Storr
4.14
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and … read more
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- nonfiction
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"Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story."-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they’re going to use to mean “status,"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
"The story idealists sometimes tell of humanity says we're natural seekers of equality. This isn't true. Utopians talk of injustice whilst building new hierarchies and placing themselves at the top. W…"-Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it
24. Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
By: Ron Cowen
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of re… read more
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- nonfiction
- history of science
- astronomy
- physics
- science
25. 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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- astronomy
- nonfiction
- physics
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26. Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
By: Nolen Gertz
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.When someone … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We try to live lives that are contrary to life."-Nolen Gertz, Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
"To make God responsible for everything is to make humanity responsible for nothing, which is to make human existence meaningless, which is to make God's judgement of our existence meaningless, which …"-Nolen Gertz, Nihilism (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
27. The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century
By: Marcus Chown
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From gravity to black holes, tides to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from… read more
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- physics
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28. Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
By: Govert Schilling
4.16
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
"The detection of gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime - by the Ligo-Virgo observatories has … read more
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- nonfiction
- physics
- science
29. A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
By: Stuart A. Kauffman
3.72
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
How did life start? Is the evolution of life describable by any physics-like laws? Stuart Kauffman'… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"The biosphere explodes in diversity, creating more and more cracks in the floor of Darwin’s nature until the cracks, ever expanding, become the very floor of nature, and nature herself."-Stuart A. Kauffman, A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
30. A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens
By: Silvana Condemi
3.96
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Why aren’t we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how “wise” Homo … read more
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- science
31. Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
By: Peter Atkins
3.50
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundament… read more
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- history of science
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