Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
By: John Gribbin
3.96
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
'An accessible primer on all things quantum' -Sunday Times Quantum physics is strange. It tells …
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1. Chaos: Making a New Science
By: James Gleick
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
2. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
By: Stephen Greenblatt
3.87
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Named One of Esquire 's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award… read more
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- nonfiction
3. Diaspora
By: Greg Egan
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyon… read more
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4. Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)
By: Greg Egan
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace… read more
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- philosophy
5. Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
By: Noam Chomsky
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Noam Chomsky's backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two… read more
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- philosophy
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know
By: Bryan Talbot , David Lloyd , Mark Buckingham , Jamie Delano , Richard Piers Rayner
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
To Hell and Back It's been a long and difficult road for John Constantine – one that's left him wi… read more
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"Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine"-Bryan Talbot, Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know
"People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine"-Bryan Talbot, Hellblazer, Vol. 2: The Devil You Know
9. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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10. The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One (The Best Science Fiction of the Year, #1)
By: Aliette de Bodard , Ian McDonald , Alastair Reynolds , Carrie Vaughn , Robert Reed , Yoon Ha Lee , Seanan McGuire , Ken Liu , David Brin , Geoff Ryman , Rich Larson , Paul McAuley , Nancy Kress , John Chu , Neil Clarke , Chen Qiufan , Hao Jingfang , Sean McMullen , Kelly Robson , Ann Leckie , Caroline M. Yoachim , Naomi Kritzer , Sam J. Miller , Carter Scholz , Brenda Cooper , Seth Dickinson , An Owomoyela , Nick Wolven , Taiyo Fujii , Martin L. Shoemaker , Jim Hubbert , None
3.71
Format: 498 pages,
A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking as… read more
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11. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
3.87
Format: 252 pages, ebook
A landmark book of popular science--a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over mi… read more
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12. Isaac Newton
By: James Gleick
4.36
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he … read more
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13. The World According to Physics
By: Jim Al-Khalili
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more
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- philosophy
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- physics
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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
14. 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
15. The Broken Sword
By: Poul Anderson
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and … read more
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"Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itse…"-Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword
16. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.33
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrate… read more
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- physics
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17. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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- philosophy
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- physics
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18. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
By: Melanie Mitchell
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
19. Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
By: Michael J. Benton
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific disciplin… read more
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20. Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
By: Frank Wilczek
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“ Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes … read more
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- science nature
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"The universe is a strange place, and we're all in it together."-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
"Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many as neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is…"-Frank Wilczek, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
21. Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
By: David Christian
4.09
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
** A 2018 GoodReads Choice Award Nominee in the History & Biography category** A captivating his… read more
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"Деякі види настільки зневажають мозок, що ставляться до нього, як до одноразової розкоші. В одного виду морських слимаків замолоду є якийсь невеликий мозок. Вони користуються ним, поки плавають по мо…"-David Christian, Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
"In the past two hundred years, human numbers grew to over seven billion, and our species began to transform the oceans, the land, and the air. Human-built roads, canals, and railways snaked across th…"-David Christian, Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
22. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
By: Naomi Klein
4.23
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more
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- audiobook
23. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
By: Paul Halpern
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion… read more
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- physics
- audiobook
24. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5
By: Neil Clarke
3.76
Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition
From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected … read more
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25. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4
By: Neil Clarke
3.79
Format: 859 pages, Kindle Edition
From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collec… read more
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26. Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding Gravity
By: Benjamin Schumacher
4.31
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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27. Harvest House
By: Cynthia Leitich Smith
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thril… read more
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"In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies…"-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Harvest House
28. Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality
By: Anil Ananthaswamy
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian 's Favorite Books of 2018 One of Forbes 's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Phys… read more
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- philosophy
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29. The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
By: Hannah B. Harvey
3.48
Format: None pages, Audio CD
An absolute treat for the heart and mind, these 24 lectures demonstrate how to master the art of st… read more
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30. Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
By: John Gribbin
3.96
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
'An accessible primer on all things quantum' -Sunday Times Quantum physics is strange. It tells … read more
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31. Thermodynamics: Four Laws That Move the Universe
By: Jeffrey C. Grossman
4.08
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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