On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
By: Michael D. Gordin
3.75
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
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1. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
By: Naomi Oreskes , Erik M. Conway
4.17
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, en… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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"An all purpose expert is an oxymoron"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended."-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
"...and that greater use of pesticides was the key to wiping out world hunger (although most social scientist disagree, pointing out that there is plenty of food in the world; the problem we face is o…"-Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
2. The Egg
By: Andy Weir
3.41
Format: None pages, ebook
A short story about the universe. read more
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- philosophy
3. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history of science
- science
4. The World As I See It
By: Albert Einstein
3.88
Format: 0 pages,
"The World as I See It" is a treasury of the thoughts and life observations of one of the greatest … read more
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5. Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)
By: Mo Hayder
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID dete… read more
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6. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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- philosophy
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"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
7. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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8. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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9. The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
By: Renée Nault
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Offred is a Handmaid in… read more
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10. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
11. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
By: Rob Wilkins
4.68
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. Eversion
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more
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13. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
By: Daniel E. Lieberman
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging s… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Eating sensibly and exercising don't guarantee long life and good health; they just decrease the risk of getting sick."-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"The mantra of this book is that nothing about the biology of exercise makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about exercise as a behavior makes sense except in the light of anthrop…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"We evolved to be physically active as we age, and in turn being active helps us age well. Further, the longer we stay active, the greater the benefit, and it is almost never too late to benefit from …"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
"For generation after generation, our ancestors young and old woke up each morning thankful to be alive and with no choice but to spend several hous walking, digging, and doing other physical activiti…"-Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
14. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
15. Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
By: Michael Shermer
3.76
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories―who belie… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- history
17. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
18. Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means f… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Unfortunately, the term “identity politics"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The key idea here is “negative partisanship"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more—indeed, we’ve come to like the pa…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
"The political media is biased, but not toward the Left or Right so much as toward loud, outrageous, colorful, inspirational, confrontational. It is biased toward the political stories and figures who…"-Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized
19. Aurora
By: David Koepp
3.79
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace a… read more
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"on September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison would turn on the generators at Pearl Street Station, in Lower Manhattan, activating America's first power grid. Human beings were on the path to total electrical …"-David Koepp, Aurora
20. Incredible Doom (Incredible Doom, 1)
By: Matthew Bogart
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It’s the dawn of a new age…the age of the internet. Allison is drowning under the weight of her … read more
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21. On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
By: Michael D. Gordin
3.75
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks lik… read more
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