Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
By: Frank Close
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection* The first major biography of Peter Higgs, …
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1. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
By: Kent Beck , Erich Gamma , Martin Fowler , Don Roberts
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become com… read more
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2. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil… read more
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4. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
By: Roger Penrose
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive… read more
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5. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
By: Edward Frenkel
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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6. Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
By: John Derbyshire
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis whil… read more
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7. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
By: Brian Greene
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universeand The Fabric of the Cosmoscomes his most expa… read more
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8. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more
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9. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
By: Becky Smethurst
4.38
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more
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10. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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11. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
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12. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
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"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
13. 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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14. The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
By: Robert D. Kaplan
4.32
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just ou… read more
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15. 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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16. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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17. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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18. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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19. Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)
By: C. Robert Cargill
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this apocalyptic adventure C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between h… read more
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20. The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa
By: Jonathan B. Losos
3.88
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The past, present, and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolution… read more
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21. Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
By: Antonio Padilla
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. … read more
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22. 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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23. The Library: A Fragile History
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more
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"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History
24. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more
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25. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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26. The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
By: Robert Zubrin
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Zubrin, world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society, taps toda… read more
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27. Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
By: Frank Close
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection* The first major biography of Peter Higgs, … read more
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28. How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
By: Bruce Benamran
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A math-free introduction to the greatest scientific ideas of the last 2,000 years: "This is the boo… read more
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29. 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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30. Gabriel's Moon
By: William Boyd
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more
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31. Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature
By: Robert N. Cahn
4.39
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthralling and accessible account of humanity’s quest to make sense of our physical world, told… read more
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