Essays in Science
By: Albert Einstein
3.97
Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The New Atlantis
By: Francis Bacon
3.09
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressin… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the begin…"-Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
2. 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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- philosophy
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3. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more
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- classics
4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
5. Crito
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
5.00
Format: 160 pages, paper
Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
6. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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- classics
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- science
7. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
- nonfiction
8. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)
By: Douglas Adams
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea.… read more
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- classics
9. The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
By: Daniel Coyle , John Farrell
3.46
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A New York Times bestselling author explores cutting-edge brain science to learn where talent comes… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
10. A History of Western Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophyhas been universa… read more
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- philosophy
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- classics
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11. Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay
3.75
Format: 148 pages,
Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
12. In a Sunburned Country
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER Every time Bill Bryson walks out… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
13. The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky
4.21
Format: 667 pages, Paperback
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
"I'm drunk but truthful."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"Beauty will save the world."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"The Russian soul is a dark place."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
14. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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15. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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16. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
By: Richard P. Feynman , Freeman Dyson , Jeffrey Robbins
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The Pleasure of Finding Things Outis a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. F… read more
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17. Euthyphro
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more
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18. A Brief History of Time
By: Stephen Hawking , Phạm Văn Thiều , None
4.21
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book … read more
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- classics
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"God abhors a naked singularity."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
19. The Weapon Shops of Isher
By: A.E. van Vogt
3.95
Format: 253 pages,
With the publication, in the July 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, of the story S… read more
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20. So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
By: Cal Newport
3.36
Format: 96 pages, ebook
In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is… read more
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21. The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium
By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author of the bestselling Flow(more than 125,000 copies sold) offers an intelligent, inspiring … read more
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22. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- classics
- history
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
23. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- 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
24. 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
- physics
- science
25. 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
26. The Expert System's Brother (Expert System, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.93
Format: 167 pages, Paperback
After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching … read more
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27. 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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- science
"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
28. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4.17
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
"Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current… read more
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- history
"Slavery didn’t end in 1865, it just evolved. The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"I actually think the great evil of American slavery wasn’t involuntary servitude and forced labor. The true evil of American slavery was the narrative we created to justify it. They made up this ideo…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
"We now know, thanks to developments in DNA analysis, that one in three African American males carries a Y-DNA signature inherited from a direct white male ancestor. Say, a great great great grandfath…"-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
29. 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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- history
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30. 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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- nonfiction
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- science
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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