Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
By: Robert M. Hazen
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An enchanting biography of the most resonant— and most necessary—chemical element on Earth. Carb…
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1. Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
By: Mike Massimino
4.53
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s abo… read more
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"If you work hard and get help from good friends, together you can overcome almost any challenge, no matter how great."-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
"The important thing in life is having a passion, something you really love doing, and you take joy in the fact that you get to wake up every day and do it."-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
"I realized much later in life that the reason this decision between MIT and IBM was so agonizing was because it wasn't really about choosing a career; it was about deciding who I was, which part of m…"-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
"I think he was trying to tell us that life is not about achieving one great thing, because once that thing is over, life keeps going. What motivates you then? The important thing is having a passion,…"-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
2. Hyperspace
By: Michio Kaku
4.18
Format: 342 pages,
How many dimensions do you live in? Three? Maybe that's all your commonsense sense perception perce… read more
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3. The Science of Interstellar
By: Kip S. Thorne , Christopher Nolan
3.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film, Inte… read more
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4. Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
By: Nick Lane
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways … read more
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5. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
By: Peter Zeihan
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER… read more
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6. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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7. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
8. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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9. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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10. Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
By: Paul A. Offit
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Modern medicine has significantly advanced in the last few decades as more informed practices, thor… read more
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11. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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12. 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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"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
13. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
14. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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15. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
By: Paul Nurse
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more
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16. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more
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"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
17. Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
By: Eugenia Cheng
3.63
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths… read more
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18. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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19. Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
By: Robert M. Hazen
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An enchanting biography of the most resonant— and most necessary—chemical element on Earth. Carb… read more
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20. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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