The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure
By: David Acheson
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Calculus is the key to much of modern science and engineering. It is the mathematical method for th…
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1. Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
By: Paul C.W. Davies , Werner Heisenberg
4.02
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum re… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values."-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
"Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding."-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
"Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory with those of the quantum theory. The extraordinary advances…"-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
"If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skep…"-Paul C.W. Davies, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
2. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
3. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. 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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5. Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
By: Charles Seife
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Humankind has grappled for millennia with the fundamental questions of the origin and end of the un… read more
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- mathematics
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6. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more
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7. The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
By: Patrick Rothfuss , Nate Taylor
3.88
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient pa… read more
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"Estaba harta de ser tan única."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"Some days simply lay on you like stones."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"...and he was absolutely not a selas sort."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
"Her name was like an echo of an ache in her."-Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)
8. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
By: M. Scott Peck
2.50
Format: 52 pages,
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9. 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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10. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
By: Atul Gawande
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more
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11. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
12. How to Lie with Statistics
By: Darrell Huff , Irving Geis
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sa… read more
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13. The House of Silk
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.01
Format: 532 pages, Hardcover
London, 1890. 221B Baker Street. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes an… read more
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14. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- nonfiction
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15. 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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16. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
By: Hans Rosling
4.36
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporti… read more
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"Free access to data doesn’t turn into knowledge without effort"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Something frightening poses a perceived risk. Something dangerous poses a real risk."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"We like to believe that things happen because someone wanted them to, that individuals have power and agency: otherwise, the world feels unpredictable, confusing, and frightening."-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
"Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It'…"-Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
17. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
18. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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19. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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20. The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure
By: David Acheson
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Calculus is the key to much of modern science and engineering. It is the mathematical method for th… read more
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21. L'infinito
By: Antonino Zichichi
3.20
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Archimede calcolò quanti granellini di sabbia c'erano nel mondo allora noto. E trovò che il loro nu… read more
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