Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
By: Michael Wall
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a senior writer from…
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1. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.08
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit … read more
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- astronomy
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"….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"I don't know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
2. Micro
By: Michael Crichton , Richard Preston
3.43
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high-concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured… read more
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- audiobook
3. The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
3.94
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Plu… read more
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- science
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- astronomy
- space
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- audiobook
4. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
By: Leonard Susskind
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo… read more
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- nonfiction
- popular science
- astronomy
- space
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- science
5. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
By: Joseph Bruchac
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial p… read more
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6. Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
By: Scott Kelly
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Spac… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- space
- audiobook
7. Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.33
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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8. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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9. Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.22
Format: 649 pages, Hardcover
"Written in words so intimate, calm, kind, and immediate, this extraordinary book feels like a mess… read more
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10. The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
By: James Kakalios
3.77
Format: 352 pages,
Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bend… read more
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11. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: None pages,
It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to e… read more
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12. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
By: None , Ben R. Rich
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind the high… read more
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13. A Briefer History of Time
By: Stephen Hawking , Leonard Mlodinow
4.26
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scie… read more
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"What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
"It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena - they no longer restrict themselves to Greek!"-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
"طالما أن الكون له بداية سيكون في استطاعتنا افتراض أن له خالقًا. أما إذا كان الكون حقا مكتملا في حد ذاته، وليس له حد ولا حرف، فلن تكون له بداية ولا نهاية: فهو ببساطة موجود."-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
"There is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around…"-Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time
14. UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There
By: Garrett M. Graff
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times-bestselling author Garrett M. Graff comes the first comprehensive and eye-openi… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- nonfiction
- aliens
- space
- technology
15. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
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. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
By: Richard Dawkins
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science wri… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"These beliefs contradict each other, so they can’t be all right"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"If I’d been born in ancient Greece, I’d worship Zeus and Aphrodite"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"But failure to disprove something is not a good reason to believe it."-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
"There are so many different faiths. How do you know the holy book you have been brought up with is the true one? And if all the others are wrong, what makes you think your holy book isn’t wrong too?"-Richard Dawkins, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
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. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- space
- physics
- audiobook
21. Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
By: Avi Loeb
3.79
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visit… read more
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"El progreso científico se mide por cuánto se acerca una idea propuesta a la verdad"-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
"Nuestros antepasados usaban términos como -viajar- y -explorar-; hoy, nos vamos de vacaciones."-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
"...aunque todos estamos compuestos de la misma materia ordinaria, eso no nos impide ser personas extraordinarias."-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
"La ciencia es ante todo una experiencia de aprendizaje, una vivencia que funciona mejor si somos humildes ante nuestros errores."-Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
22. Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences
By: D.W. Pasulka
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we are at the cusp of experiencing c… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
By: Brian C. Muraresku
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
24. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.75
Format: 7 pages, Audio CD
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of… read more
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"La ciencia es contraria a la sensibilidad de los animales hasta que ésta ya no pueda negarse. ¿No sería mejor argumentar, por si acaso, lo contrario, para no maltratar innecesariamente a los animales?"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
"Si de verdad somos la especie más inteligente de este planeta -algo que presupongo-, ¿entonces por qué la ciencia no recorrió hace tiempo el camino inverso? ¿Por qué esforzarse durante años en enseña…"-Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
25. Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)
By: S.L. Huang
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-g… read more
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"Ms. Russell,"-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)
"Wait, you remember where you keep your stashes with equations?"-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)
"I'll thank you to talk to me like the heavily armed person I am."-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)
"Holy crap. They couldn’t control Rio. They couldn’t control Rio! Note to self: To avoid being vulnerable to telepathy, become a psychopath. No, bad plan, Cas."-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)
26. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more
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27. Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
By: Richard Preston
4.42
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
The 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever—but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a grippin… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
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- audiobook
"There's not a lot of value in preparing for a war, because what happens in a war is unpredictable. But there is a lot of value in preparing for an outbreak, because what happens in an outbreak is pre…"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
"By now, the warriors who stand at the gates of the virosphere understand that they face a long struggle against formidable enemies. Many of their weapons will fail, but some will begin to work. The h…"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
"The Ebola war wasn't won with modern medicine. It was a medieval war, and it went down as a brutal engagement between ordinary people and a life form that was trying to use the human body as a means …"-Richard Preston, Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
28. Solution
By: Brian Evenson
3.62
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
As climate change wreaks havoc on the earth and the fate of humanity grows dire, a scientist makes … read more
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29. Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life (A No F*cks Given Guide)
By: Sarah Knight
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The no-f*cks-given guide to taming anxiety and taking back control of your life, from the bestselli… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
By: Kevin Peter Hand
4.14
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system… read more
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- aliens
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- audiobook
31. Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
By: Michael Wall
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a senior writer from… read more
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