So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World
By: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity The form and fun…
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1. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
By: David Epstein
4.20
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wonde… read more
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"The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it."-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people…"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids.' Foster's point is that, despite the …"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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3. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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4. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
By: Steven H. Strogatz
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the ti… read more
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5. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
By: Joseph Henrich
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, ofte… read more
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6. Idoru (Bridge #2)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in trade paperback from the author of Neuromancer comes a story that takes readers to 21st cent… read more
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7. Redemption Ark
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the In… read more
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8. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitu… read more
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9. Pushing Ice
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comet… read more
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10. Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
By: Geoffrey West
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the fi… read more
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11. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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13. Accelerando
By: Charles Stross
3.72
Format: 640 pages,
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits… read more
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14. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
15. 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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"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
16. 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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17. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
18. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
By: Alina Chan
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
"Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how… read more
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19. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more
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20. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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21. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
By: Erik Hoel
3.68
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revoluti… read more
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22. 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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23. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
By: David N. Schwartz
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain react… read more
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24. Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
By: Scott Gottlieb
4.08
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taugh… read more
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25. The Frontiers of Knowledge
By: A.C. Grayling
4.03
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past and itself. But… read more
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26. Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
By: Jordan Ellenberg
3.73
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a … read more
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"The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull."-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
"The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to set…"-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
"Often people think of developments in computation as arising when we make our computers more blazingly fast, so they can compute more stuff , bigger data . It's actually just as important to prune aw…"-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
"What I like about stochastic gradient descent is how nuts it sounds. Imagine, for instance, that the president of the United States made decisions without any kind of global strategy; rather, the nat…"-Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
27. The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
By: Alfonso Martinez Arias
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
"An ingenious argument" (Kirkus) for a "novel thesis" (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold… read more
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28. Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
By: Ogi Ogas
4.00
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
Two neuroscientists reveal why consciousness exists and how it works by examining eighteen increasi… read more
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29. Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
By: Bill Sullivan
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Why are you attracted to a certain "type?" Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way yo… read more
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30. So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World
By: Raghuveer Parthasarathy
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity The form and fun… read more
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31. 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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