They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years
By: Eyal Halfon
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An epic and highly readable investigation into our very earliest ancestors, focusing on the land co…
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1. Agnes of God
By: John Pielmeier
3.96
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Drama / Characters: 3 FemalesSummoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychi… read more
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2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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- nonfiction
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. Man and His Symbols
By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman
4.19
Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more
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"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
4. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. A Horse Walks into a Bar
By: David Grossman , Jessica Cohen
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a… read more
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"What do people see in me on the first impression? ... Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?"-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar
"What do people see in me on the first impression? Can they still see what I was until not long ago? Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?"-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar
"En tunnistanut itseäni, kun olin hänen kanssaan. En tunnistanut innostunutta, eloisaa poikaa, joka minusta kuoriutui. En tunnistanut ohimoilleni nousevaa kuumotusta, vaikka se johtui ajatusten kiihko…"-David Grossman, A Horse Walks into a Bar
6. Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
By: Nathan Belofsky
3.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
An irreverent jaunt through medical history's most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest b… read more
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7. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
8. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
9. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
10. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
11. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
12. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
13. Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
By: Joseph Luzzi
3.77
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of uneart… read more
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- nonfiction
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14. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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- history
- evolution
- nonfiction
- archaeology
- science
"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
15. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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16. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
By: Lisa G. Bailey
3.75
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more
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17. Goddess of the River
By: Vaishnavi Patel
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from… read more
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18. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
By: Stefanos Geroulanos
3.76
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An eminent historian demonstrates how claims about the origins of humanity have been used to justif… read more
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- history
- archaeology
- science
19. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more
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20. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
By: John Strausbaugh
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its… read more
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- history
- science
22. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
By: Kathleen Sheppard
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt an… read more
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- history
- archaeology
23. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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- history
- science
- evolution
24. They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years
By: Eyal Halfon
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An epic and highly readable investigation into our very earliest ancestors, focusing on the land co… read more
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- history
- evolution
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- archaeology
- science
25. 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
- history
"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.
26. Crossing: Suez, 1973
By: Amiram Ezov
4.30
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
After being taken by surprise on October 6, 1973, just like the Red Army was in 1941, with its defe… read more
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27. Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
By: Jules Howards
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary the egg. It'… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- evolution
28. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- history
- science
29. Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet. … read more
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- science
30. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)
By: Stephen Fry
4.42
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more
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