14 must-read science books like The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity by Claudia de Rham

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The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity

By: Claudia de Rham

4.12

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in h…

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1. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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3. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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  • audiobook
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5. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • nature
  • science
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6. 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
  • audiobook
"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?

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7. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

By: Harry Cliff

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening ac… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
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9. Secrets of the Octopus

By: Sy Montgomery

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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10. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

By: Kevin J. Mitchell

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • nature
  • science
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12. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

By: Dan Levitt

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambiti… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • nature
  • science
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13. How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe

By: Harry Cliff

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Experimental physicist and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff takes you on an exhilarating sea… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
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14. Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

By: Matt Strassler

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, sh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • nature
  • science
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15. The Physics of Climate Change

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first book to briefly and clearly present the science of climate change in a way that is access… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • nature
  • science
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16. Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)

By: Dennis Yi Tenen

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking reader… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity

By: Claudia de Rham

4.12

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • nature
  • science
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18. We'll Prescribe You a Cat

By: Syou Ishida

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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20. Eyes in the Sky: Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb

By: Andrew May

4.33

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope to gaze further into o… read more

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  • nonfiction

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4.10

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3.70

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