6 Best science books like Newton and Gravity by Paul Strathern

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Newton and Gravity

By: Paul Strathern

3.66

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A good case can be made for Isaac Newton being the finest mind humanity has yet produced. His theor…

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1. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

By: Brené Brown

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we k… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"When we're suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"(Quoting Viola Davis) I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in…"

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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2. Decision Points

By: George W. Bush

3.81

Format: 497 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"When my time is up,"

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"If you lead, we'll be behind you," one House leader said, "but we'll be way behind you."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

"When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure."

-George W. Bush, Decision Points

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3. The Coming Race

By: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

3.25

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

This early science fiction novel offers a fascinating vision of a shadowy underworld populated by s… read more

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"A trusty companion halves the journey and doubles the courage."

-Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race

"We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing."

-Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race

"He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old."

-Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race

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4. The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

By: David Deida

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? … read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Tale of the Unknown Island

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago , Peter Sís

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other do… read more

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6. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

By: Leil Lowndes

3.78

Format: 112 pages, ebook

"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills."-- Larry King "The lost a… read more

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  • nonfiction

7. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of th… read more

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8. The Bridges of Madison County

By: Robert James Waller

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of … read more

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9. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more

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10. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

11. The Hunting Party

By: Enki Bilal , Pierre Christin

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Cincuenta anos se dice facil, pero a lo largo de cinco decadas, Gabriel Vargas ha reflejado el acon… read more

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12. Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Novel

By: Anne Frank , David Polonsky

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The only graphic novelization of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foun… read more

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13. Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By: Stephen Hawking

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • physics
  • science
"I use the word “God"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"This “Hawking temperature"

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."

-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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14. La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

By: Juan José Millás

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

«-Tú y yo podríamos asociarnos para hablar de la vida; levantaríamos un gran relato sobre la existe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"Yo estaba un poco deprimido no por nada, sino porque es mi carácter. La gente deprimida detesta, por envidia, a las personas vitalistas, y el paleontólogo es uno de esos sujetos que siempre están en …"

-Juan José Millás, La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

"Vemos un insecto palo gigante y un grupo de mariposas cuyas alas parecen hojas de rosal. Entonces me viene a la memoria un artículo sobre mimetismo que leí de joven en la Enciclopedia Espasa, donde s…"

-Juan José Millás, La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

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15. Por si las voces vuelven

By: Ángel Martín

4.02

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Hace unos años me rompí por completo. Tanto como para que tuvieran que atarme a la cama de un hospi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Mientras estuve loco, nosotros simplemente éramos los Sims de unos nosotros muchísimo más evolucionados que vivían en un plano superior."

-Ángel Martín, Por si las voces vuelven

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16. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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17. The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West

By: Chris Wimmer

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narrati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

18. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

By: Susan Wels

3.33

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

By: Anthony Ray Hinton

4.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."

-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

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20. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By: Walter Isaacson

4.29

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."

-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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21. Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

By: Guido Tonelli

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, The Story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • physics
  • science
"La aparición del pensamiento simbólico marca una de las etapas fundamentales de la evolución humana."

-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

"Durante millones de años, la humanidad ha tenido que lidiar cotidianamente con la dureza de la existencia."

-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

"La sensación de asombro frente a un cielo estrellado supone, todavía hoy, una emoción intensa, en la que se escucha el eco del antiguo estupor que marcó a las miles de generaciones que nos han preced…"

-Guido Tonelli, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began

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22. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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23. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich

24. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. Newton and Gravity

By: Paul Strathern

3.66

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A good case can be made for Isaac Newton being the finest mind humanity has yet produced. His theor… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
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26. Quantix - La Physique quantique et la relativité en BD

By: Laurent Schafer

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Nos sens nous mentent : temps, matière et énergie n'existent pas tels que nous les percevons. Décou… read more

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  • science

13 Best history books like Newton and Gravity by Paul Strathern

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Decision Points

George W. Bush

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Stephen Hawking

4.28

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La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

Juan José Millás

3.97

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Ed Yong

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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