"Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe
By: David Kaiser
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The life and work of Freeman Dyson—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—and his particular…
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1. The Scientist as Rebel
By: Freeman Dyson
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls "one… read more
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2. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
By: Steven Weinberg
4.20
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-wi… read more
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3. 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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"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
4. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
5. 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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6. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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- history
"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
7. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
By: Martha Wells
4.47
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more
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"Ugh, emotions."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
"So, you have a relationship with this transport."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
8. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
9. 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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10. The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
By: Paul J. Steinhardt
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fas… read more
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- biography
- science
11. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- biography
- science
"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
12. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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13. "Well, Doc, You're In": Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe
By: David Kaiser
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The life and work of Freeman Dyson—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—and his particular… read more
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14. The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
By: Karen Olsson
3.85
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirati… read more
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- biography
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15. The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
By: Felix Flicker
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the mod… read more
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