NeuroScience Fiction
By: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
4.16
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi …
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1. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
By: Kevin Kelly
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological i… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
2. The Coincidence Makers
By: Yoav Blum
3.89
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In this genre-bending novel, there is no such thing as chance and every action is carefully execute… read more
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"Има два вида хора на този свят: едните виждат във всеки избор възможността да спечелят нещо, а другите виждат във всеки избор компромиса, който трябва да направят."-Yoav Blum, The Coincidence Makers
"....you couldn’t allow yourself to be in a bad mood or show despondency. You had to take the little spoon of your personality and dig deep in the cold ground until you reached water that you could se…"-Yoav Blum, The Coincidence Makers
"There's always a broader picture. There's always something beyond the system you're concentrating on. Never forget that. There are no clear boundaries. Life doesn't stop at the boundaries of the tabl…"-Yoav Blum, The Coincidence Makers
"At the far left ... are all of the people who really think that everything is completely coincidental ... And on the other end are all of the people who are sure that there's a reason for everything …"-Yoav Blum, The Coincidence Makers
3. The Man Who Japed
By: Philip K. Dick
3.58
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In The Man Who Japed, a world that has survived a nuclear holocaust has given way to a rigid system… read more
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4. The Double
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
3.96
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a … read more
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"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
"Reading is probably another way of being in a place."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
"What dogs want most in life is for no one to go away."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
"Cada día que nace es el primero para unos y será el último para otros."-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double
5. Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
By: Giulio Tononi
3.90
Format: 380 pages, ebook
This title is printed in full color throughout.From one of the most original and influential neuros… read more
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- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"(...) we should strive to grow consciousness itself — to generate bigger, brighter lights in an otherwise dark universe."-Giulio Tononi, Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
"He put his ear to his own chest and listened to the heart. How could the pulse go on, beat after beat, for all of life? No machine could run that long without a stumble. Ask not if the beating cranks…"-Giulio Tononi, Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
6. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
7. Trilogia della città di K.
By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more
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8. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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10. Binti (Binti, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.95
Format: 145 pages, ebook
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more
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11. Orange 1 (オレンジ, #1)
By: Ichigo Takano , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
One day, Takamiya Naho receives a letter written to herself from ten years in the future. As Naho r… read more
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12. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
13. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
By: Sam Harris
3.80
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a gu… read more
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14. Man Plus (Man Plus #1)
By: Frederik Pohl
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biologica… read more
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15. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
By: Maria Konnikova
3.94
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Hol… read more
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16. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
By: Michio Kaku
4.10
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
17. Tierra
By: Eloy Moreno
4.18
Format: 541 pages, Paperback
En el interior de una cabaña escondida en el bosque, un hombre hace una promesa a sus dos hijos: Pe… read more
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"La educación, al igual que la sociedad, se va degradando año a año. Hemos llegado al punto en que se nos exigen responsabilidades a los profesores si el alumno suspende."-Eloy Moreno, Tierra
"Nos escandalizamos cuando salen noticias de padres que maltratan a sus hijos, de hijos que maltratan a sus padres... pero al fin y al cabo nosotros estamos haciendo lo mismo con el planeta: estamos m…"-Eloy Moreno, Tierra
"He sentido el amor de un desconocido, la ayuda de un enemigo, la protección de una madre, el compañerismo, la felicidad de una familia, la generosidad del que apenas tiene. He visto crecer la amistad…"-Eloy Moreno, Tierra
"Pero si había algo aún peor que la rutina era, sin duda, la ausencia de posibilidades. Uno puede acostumbrarse a repetir una y otra vez las mismas acciones, a que cada día sea igual que ayer e igual …"-Eloy Moreno, Tierra
18. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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- nonfiction
19. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- science
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
20. La piedra de la locura
By: Benjamín Labatut
3.48
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Una fascinante reflexión sobre el caos y la locura a partir de teorías científicas, expresiones lit… read more
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- science
21. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
22. Emergency Skin
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.03
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more
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"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
23. There Is No Antimemetics Division
By: qntm
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more
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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
24. Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)
By: Juan Gómez-Jurado
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes … read more
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"Kummerspeck. In German, that means "the bacon of sadness." The weight you gain when you're unhappy."-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)
"Lo peor fue el miedo que sintió durante los tres pasos hacia adelante. El plomo en el estómago que cargas en la distancia entre lo que te impulsa y o que temes."-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)
"En ese rato ha llovido y ha escampado. Un olor fragante entra por la rendija, aliviando la tristeza. O cambiándola de sitio. Con cierto humilde consuelo: el que cuando ya nada subsista del pasado que…"-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)
"(...) la mañana ha hecho eso que hacen todas las mañanas cuando llegan, prometernos unas horas distintas, nuevas, libres de que haceres y pesares. Como saben todas las huerfanitas pecosas, el sol bri…"-Juan Gómez-Jurado, Black Wolf (Antonia Scott, #2)
25. La realidad no existe: Cómo entender el mundo cuando entiendes que no entiendes nada (Spanish Edition)
By: Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago
4.33
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
El primer libro del creador del exitoso pódcastKaizen.¿Cuánto confías en lo que ves, sientes, piens… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By: Kate Crawford
3.99
Format: 288 pages, ebook
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more
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- science
27. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
By: David Eagleman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain ba… read more
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- neuroscience
- nonfiction
- science
"... So the basis of behavioral improvement is not simply the repeated performance of a task; it also requires neuromodulatory systems to encode relevance. Without acetylcholine, the ten thousand hour…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The difference between predictions and outcomes is the key to understanding a strange property of learning: if you’re predicting perfectly, your brain doesn’t need to change further… Changes in the b…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"The fact is that the future is hard to predict. Whatever the case, as we move toward the horizon, the only certainty is that we will increasingly choose our own plug-and-play peripheral devices. We a…"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
"Several emerging companies, still in their infancy, hope to increase the speed of brain communication to the outside world by writing and reading neural data rapidly by means of direct plug-ins. The …"-David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
28. The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
By: Arik Kershenbaum
3.96
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE We are unprepared for the greatest discov… read more
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- science
"One of the most fundamental rules of natural selection, on Earth and across the universe, is that there is always a cost-benefit trade-off. Improving your abilities in one field must reduce your capa…"-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
"Whenever there is a conflict of interest (or a potential conflict of interest) between two animals making their own decisions to maximize their own fitness, then an evolutionary game is in play. Each…"-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
29. Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
By: Ogi Ogas
4.00
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
Two neuroscientists reveal why consciousness exists and how it works by examining eighteen increasi… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
30. Confesiones desde el exilio: Enrique Peña Nieto / Confessions from Exile: Enrique Peña Nieto (Spanish Edition)
By: Mario Maldonado
2.34
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A través de entrevistas exclusivas con el propio Enrique Peña Nieto, quien durante años no había ha… read more
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31. NeuroScience Fiction
By: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
4.16
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi … read more
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