5 must-read science nature books like The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by D.K. Publishing

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The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By: D.K. Publishing

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape o…

If you liked the science nature plot in The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by D.K. Publishing , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Rising Sun

By: Michael Crichton

3.65

Format: 399 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete fo… read more

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2. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
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3. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. The Atrocity Exhibition

By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more

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5. The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

By: Stephen Hawking

3.57

Format: None pages,

Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, Professor Hawking's work introduced "t… read more

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6. Books That Changed History: From the Art of War to Anne Frank's Diary

By: D.K. Publishing

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by James Naughtie Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at… read more

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7. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

By: Nick Lane

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at th… read more

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8. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

By: Becky Smethurst

4.38

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • education
  • physics
  • audiobook
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9. Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.11

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known… read more

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  • audiobook
"The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’ Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two."

-Alastair Reynolds, Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

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10. 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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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • audiobook
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11. 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
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • physics
  • science
"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

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12. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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13. The Lady with the Little Dog

By: Anton Chekhov

3.72

Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) may have suffered an untimely death, but he squeezed the most out of his … read more

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  • audiobook
"Anna Sergeevna e lui si amavano come due esseri molto vicini, affini, come marito e moglie, come se il destino li avesse destinati l'uno all'altra e non capivano perché li aveva fatti sposare con alt…"

-Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog

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14. Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide

By: J.P. McEvoy

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • physics
  • science
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15. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By: Frank Wilczek

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ Fundamentals  might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes … read more

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  • science
  • unfinished
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"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is…"

-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

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16. Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

By: Danna Staaf

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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  • audiobook
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17. Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

By: Leonard Mlodinow

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of scie… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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19. Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

By: Brian Clegg

3.71

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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20. The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

By: Suzie Sheehy

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of… read more

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  • history
  • unfinished
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  • science nature
  • physics
  • audiobook
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21. The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By: D.K. Publishing

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape o… read more

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  • audiobook

12 must-read audiobook books like The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by D.K. Publishing

Transform Your Habits

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Transform Your Habits

A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

Becky Smethurst

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

Alastair Reynolds

4.11

Transform Your Habits

White Holes

Carlo Rovelli

4.10

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13 must-read audiobook books like Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods by Danna Staaf

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants (Plant Guide, Horticulture, Trees)

Matt Candeias

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

Jaime Green

4.02

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