Chemistry and the Enlightenment (Science & Discovery)
By: Ian Jackson
3.38
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Eart…
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1. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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2. Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1)
By: Grant Naylor
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The first lesson Lister learned about space travel was you should never try it. But Lister didn't h… read more
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3. 20th Century European Philosophy
By: Ed Casey
2.00
Format: 238 pages,
In an age of conflicting intellectual trends, some philosophers have lost faith in the everyday rel… read more
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- philosophy
- history
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4. Plato
By: Charlton Heston , Berel Lang
4.80
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Plato was the first person to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. … read more
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5. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
By: Richard Dawkins
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchm… read more
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6. The Story of Electricity
By: Edwin Newman , John T. Sanders , Jack Sanders
3.83
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the nineteenth century, scientists working with chemistry and magnetism began discovering a rich… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
7. Einstein's Dreams
By: Alan Lightman
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
A modern classic, Einstein's Dreamsis a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in … read more
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8. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
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10. Science that Changed the World: The untold story of the other 1960s revolution: Guardian Shorts (Kindle Single Book 17)
By: None
2.50
Format: 260 pages,
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11. The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
By: Grant Cardone
3.60
Format: None pages,
Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams!While most people operate with… read more
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12. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed someth… read more
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13. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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14. My Inventions
By: Nikola Tesla
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
This important title is the autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla appropriately titled his wo… read more
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15. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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16. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- history
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
17. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
By: Florence Williams
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By: Nick Offerman
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more
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"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
19. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- history
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20. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
21. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
By: Lisa Schneidau
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of plant folklore and wisdom, from the magi… read more
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"In the old days, there were bogles, the horrid things, creeping in the darkness, ready to take people. And even in the daytime, when there weren't bogles, people were always fretting about them, or s…"-Lisa Schneidau, Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
22. 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
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23. 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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- history
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"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
24. Revenge of the Librarians
By: Tom Gauld
3.94
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more
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25. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
26. Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine
By: Roy Benaroch
4.45
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
You're a doctor 11 hours into your shift, and you've just walked into a waiting area packed with pa… read more
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27. Complexity and Chaos
By: Roger White
3.76
Format: None pages, ebook
In the regular, clock-like world of Newtonian physics, randomness was equated with incomplete kno… read more
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28. Chemistry and the Enlightenment (Science & Discovery)
By: Ian Jackson
3.38
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Eart… read more
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29. Descartes, Bacon, and Modern Philosophy
By: Jeffrey Tlumak
3.38
Format: None pages, Audio CD
These two great seventeenth-century philosophers aimed to break free of oppressive traditions. Free… read more
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30. Darwin and Evolution
By: Michael T. Ghiselin
3.19
Format: None pages, Audio CD
In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Nat… read more
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31. Essays in Science
By: Albert Einstein
3.97
Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition
It was once said that only twelve people in the world could understand Einstein's Theory of Relativ… read more
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