The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
By: David Lindley
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
By: Tom Standage
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For centuries people communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse cou… read more
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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
By: Lisa Randall
3.67
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door and one of today's most influen… read more
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"Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's consumer preferences."-Lisa Randall, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
"One reason I find anthropic reasoning troublesome is that no one yet knows what might be essential to any possible form of life or even to structures such as galaxies that might support it. I am not …"-Lisa Randall, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
4. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
By: Nick Lane
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A renowned biochemist draws on cutting-edge scientific findings to construct the mosaic of life's a… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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6. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: None
3.36
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Our Mathematical Universeis a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov… read more
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7. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
By: Brian M. Fagan
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
The Little Ice Agetells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of mod… read more
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- history
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8. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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- philosophy
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9. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
By: Brian Greene
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more
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"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
10. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Marvelous. . . . A wonderful book."--Humana.Mente "Rovelli is the dream author to conduct us on th… read more
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11. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
By: Sam Kean
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neu… read more
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12. World War I: The "Great War"
By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
4.23
Format: None pages, Unbound
18 CDs Running Time: 18hrs 45min read more
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13. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
14. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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- audiobook
15. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
16. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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17. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- history
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
19. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
20. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
21. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
22. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- mathematics
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- nonfiction
- physics
- audiobook
"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
23. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
By: Christopher F. Rufo
4.30
Format: 352 pages, ebook
For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
24. Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
By: John McWhorter
3.95
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered sho… read more
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- history
- audiobook
25. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how … read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions
By: Jay L. Garfield
4.41
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The Meaning of Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions is an invigorating way … read more
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- history
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- science
27. Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget
By: Nelson Dellis
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Remember It!, four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis teaches us how to make the most of our… read more
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- audiobook
28. 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
29. The Secret Lives of Planets: A User's Guide to the Solar System
By: Paul Murdin
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Everyone's been looking up at the night sky this year as we've celebrated 50 years since Neil Armst… read more
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- history
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- audiobook
30. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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31. The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
By: David Lindley
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and ho… read more
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