The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
By: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo…
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1. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
By: Richard Dawkins
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colour… read more
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- evolution
- nonfiction
- popular science
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"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
"Abraham was left in no doubt that the future lay with his seed, not his individuality. God knew his Darwinism."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
"A brain that is good at simulating models in imagination is also, almost inevitably, in danger of self-delusion."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born."-Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
2. How to Be a Woman
By: Caitlin Moran
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't ex… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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- biology
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- popular science
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4. The Selfish Gene
By: Richard Dawkins
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- popular science
- science
"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
5. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
6. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
By: Giulia Enders , Jill Enders
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A cheeky up-close and personal guide to the secrets and science of our digestive system. For too lo… read more
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- medical
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
7. Szafa
By: Olga Tokarczuk
2.62
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Porywajaca, niepokojaca wyobraznia Olgi Tokarczuk. Opowiadania, w ktorych wyobraznia sasiaduje z mi… read more
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8. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
By: Norman Doidge
4.22
Format: 129 pages,
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the… read more
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9. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
By: Sam Harris
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion… read more
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10. Embassytown
By: China Miéville
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient … read more
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11. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
By: John Gray
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together bec… read more
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12. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more
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13. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- popular science
- nonfiction
- science
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
14. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
15. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- medical
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
16. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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- biography
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
17. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
4.32
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more
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- biology
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- popular science
- science
18. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
By: Daniel Z. Lieberman
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
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"It’s better to be smart than strong."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
19. Ratownik. Nie jestem bogiem
By: Justyna Dżbik-Kluge
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Samobójca, który próbował ratować się w ostatnich chwilach życia. Samotna kobieta pragnąca czułości… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
21. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
22. The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
By: Guy Leschziner
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner leads readers through the five senses and h… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- memoir
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"[...] the absence of sensation can be devastating. But an absence of pain – the loudest of our sensations – sounds like a blessing, not a curse. Pain screams its way into our consciousness, blotting …"-Guy Leschziner, The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
23. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
By: Carl Zimmer
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from prot… read more
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- evolution
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- popular science
- science
"It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"Thirteen thousand years ago it fell to Antarctica. It rested in the Allan Hills as the Ice Age glaciers retreated, farmers discovered agriculture, cities rose, and rockets shot into space."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"The disgusting smell of death of death is the result of certain airborne molecules with evocative names like cadaverine and putrescine. These molecules are not produced by death, however, but by life…"-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
24. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
25. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
By: Paul Nurse
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more
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- biology
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- nonfiction
- popular science
- science
26. Droga do siebie. O poczuciu wartości
By: Ewa Woydyłło
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Książka popularnej i cenionej psycholożki, która w swojej pracy pomogła tysiącom kobiet. Z niski… read more
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27. Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
By: Erica Thompson
3.67
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
28. The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being
By: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned biologist's cutting-edge and unconventional examination of human reproduction and embryo… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- popular science
- science
29. The Brain Health Book: Using the Power of Neuroscience to Improve Your Life
By: John Randolph
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Easy-to-understand science-based strategies to maximize your brain’s potential. Concerns about memo… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
30. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
31. The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything: All the Facts You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know
By: Jonn Elledge
3.69
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everythi… read more
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