Exploring and Mapmaking
By: Ian Jackson
3.41
Format: None pages, Audio CD
While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land…
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1. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne
3.88
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more
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"Meat, ma'am, meat."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
3. The Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more
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- audiobook
"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
4. Propaganda
By: Edward L. Bernays
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
"Bernays' honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and infl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep #0.5)
By: Mira Grant
4.00
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship … read more
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- audiobook
6. The Story of Electricity
By: Edwin Newman , John T. Sanders , Jack Sanders
3.83
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the nineteenth century, scientists working with chemistry and magnetism began discovering a rich… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
7. Science that Changed the World: The untold story of the other 1960s revolution: Guardian Shorts (Kindle Single Book 17)
By: None
2.50
Format: 260 pages,
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8. 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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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
9. The Law
By: Frédéric Bastiat
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permit… read more
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10. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.13
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
11. Medieval Science: Science and Discovery
By: Edwin Newman , Jack Sanders
0.00
Format: 24 pages,
This series of cassettes on Science & Discovery recreates one of history's most successful journeys… read more
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12. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
By: Bill Bryson
3.99
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"That's really what history mostly is, masses of people doing ordinary things."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
"At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States."-Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
13. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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14. Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein
By: Brian Greene
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Audiobook
Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene … read more
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15. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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- audiobook
"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
16. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
17. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
18. 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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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
19. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
20. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Philosophical Thoughts
By: C.S. Lewis
3.88
Format: None pages, Audiobook
This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. L… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. How to Boost Your Physical and Mental Energy
By: Kimberlee Bethany Bonura
3.74
Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio
Wouldn't it be great if you could wake up every morning with an unending reserve of energy? Get a s… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
By: Jim Dutcher
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspira… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Exploring and Mapmaking
By: Ian Jackson
3.41
Format: None pages, Audio CD
While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- travel
- nonfiction
- science
25. Complexity and Chaos
By: Roger White
3.76
Format: None pages, ebook
In the regular, clock-like world of Newtonian physics, randomness was equated with incomplete kno… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
26. Isaac Newton's New Physics (Science & Discovery)
By: Gordon Brittan
3.51
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Newton was a natural philosopher (the word ?scientist? had not yet been coined) who described a pla… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- science
27. Descartes, Bacon, and Modern Philosophy
By: Jeffrey Tlumak
3.38
Format: None pages, Audio CD
These two great seventeenth-century philosophers aimed to break free of oppressive traditions. Free… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Darwin and Evolution
By: Michael T. Ghiselin
3.19
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Nat… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
29. A New Understanding of the Atom (Science & Discovery)
By: John T. Sanders
3.59
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have de… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- science
30. Medical Science
By: Paul M. Heidger
3.55
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and the study… read more
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31. Bear Grylls' Survival Stories
By: Bear Grylls
3.85
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
World-renowned adventurer and broadcaster, Bear Grylls, presents some of the most incredible near-d… read more
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