Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
By: Peter Stott
4.07
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
By: Nicholas Kardaras
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds an… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"That's right - a kid's brain on tech looks like a brain on drugs."-Nicholas Kardaras, Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
"Digital vegetables can be a healthy use of screens (researching a term paper), while digital candy (Minecraft, Candy Crush) are hyperarousing and dopamine-activating digital stimulants without any os…"-Nicholas Kardaras, Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
"One professor from MIT made the passionate plea that we must encourage children to develop the ability to think first, and then give them the computer. After that, the sky's the limit. But if you int…"-Nicholas Kardaras, Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
"Brain-imaging research is showing that glowing screens - like those of iPads - are as stimulating to the brain's pleasure centre and as able to increase levels of dopamine (the primary feel-good neur…"-Nicholas Kardaras, Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids -- And How to Break the Trance
2. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment
By: Robert Wright
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. Land Rover: The Story of the Car that Conquered the World
By: Ben Fogle
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitaria… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. Eating Animals
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating… read more
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5. Silent Spring
By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more
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6. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
7. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
8. A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
By: Henry Gee
4.05
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with chu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"For if life on Earth was forged in fire, it was hardened in ice."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
"Therefore, do not despair. The Earth abides, and life is living yet."-Henry Gee, A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
9. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
10. Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
By: Zahra Hankir
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homeland… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
11. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
12. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming bec… read more
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- climate change
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
"Sadness and joy aren't opposites of each other. They are each the opposite of indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
"In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world."-Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
13. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
14. It Would Be Night in Caracas
By: Karina Sainz Borgo
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more
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"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas
15. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
16. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
By: Justin Gregg
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
17. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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- science
18. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- science
"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
19. The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Joe Miller
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Dünya Sağlık Örgütü'nün koronavirüs salgınını pandemi ilan etmesine altı hafa, Donald Trump'ın Beyaz Saray'ının ''Son Hız Operasyonu'' aşı geliştirme programını başlatmasına dört ay vardı. Henüz Çin …"-Joe Miller, The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
20. Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial
By: Peter Stott
4.07
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022******SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPH… read more
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21. Am I Normal?
By: Sarah Chaney
3.66
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the strange science of the 'Normal', and the roots of an anxiety-ridden modern obs… read more
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- history
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