Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.05
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? …
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1. House of Names
By: Colm Tóibín
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her de… read more
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"The memory of my name will last longer than the lives of many men."-Colm Tóibín, House of Names
"You must live with what you did,’ Leander said. ‘What you did is all you have."-Colm Tóibín, House of Names
"I have been acquainted with the smell of death. The sickly, sugary smell that wafted in the wind towards the rooms in this palace. It is easy now for me to feel peaceful and content."-Colm Tóibín, House of Names
"He stopped going to his own bed, waiting instead until Leander was ready for bed and then going to the room with him, the dog once more in his wake. He began to look forward to the night, to what hap…"-Colm Tóibín, House of Names
2. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
By: George Dyson
3.72
Format: 374 pages, ebook
"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence," t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
By: Mark Miodownik
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. 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
- science
5. 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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- mathematics
- nonfiction
- 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
6. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
7. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- nonfiction
- society
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
8. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
By: Tim Harford
4.12
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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- mathematics
- nonfiction
- science
9. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
10. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
By: Michael Lewis
4.09
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
11. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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- nonfiction
- society
12. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
13. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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- nonfiction
14. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
17. Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
By: Katrine Marçal
3.89
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Nie wyciosał cię swoim toporem Odyn, nie jesteś hydrauliczną rzeźbą, centralą telefoniczną ani komputerem. Wypluł cię skurcz krwawej macicy twojej matki."-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
"The Viking gods didn't whittle you with an axe. You are no hydraulic statue, telephone exchange or computer. You came, kicking and screaming, out of a pulsating, blood-red womb."-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
"Jobless Jack sits in his damp basement watching YouTube videos of Jordan Peterson, while Mary goes on a Brené Brown course on ‘vulnerability as a leadership skill’. Welcome to the second machine age!"-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
"Witchcraft stemmed from woman’s insatiable lust, he imagined. Her vagina just couldn’t get enough. Just look at its form! It was these deeply insalubrious desires that supposedly put woman in contact…"-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
18. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
19. Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of scie… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- health
20. Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.05
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? … read more
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- medical
- mathematics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- society
- science
21. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
