A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and Its Implications
By: Carl Sagan
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An analysis of the potentially devastating consequences of nuclear war discusses the environmental …
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1. Chaos: Making a New Science
By: James Gleick
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
"IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"Revolutions do not come piecemeal. One account of nature replaces another."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
"The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things."-James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
2. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
By: Stephen Hawking , Kip S. Thorne , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- physics
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"Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very …"-Stephen Hawking, Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
3. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- philosophy
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
4. City
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more
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5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more
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- nonfiction
"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
6. Intelligent Life in the Universe
By: Carl Sagan , Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky , I.S. Shklovskii
3.79
Format: 32 pages,
The first popular and accurate discussion of natural evolution, origins of the universe, stars and … read more
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- physics
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7. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
Format: None pages,
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitu… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
9. 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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10. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
By: David Roberts
3.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more
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11. Hyperspace
By: Michio Kaku
4.18
Format: 342 pages,
How many dimensions do you live in? Three? Maybe that's all your commonsense sense perception perce… read more
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12. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
By: Michio Kaku
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us… read more
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13. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacheris a publishing first… read more
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14. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
By: Alison Arngrim
4.21
Format: 539 pages,
For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched, scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on o… read more
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15. The War on the West
By: Douglas Murray
4.28
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
16. 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
- physics
- science
17. 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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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- science
"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
18. The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
By: Steven Novella
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadma… read more
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- history
- science
19. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
By: John McWhorter
3.94
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
20. What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
By: Tim Urban
4.28
Format: 746 pages, Kindle Edition
From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The Scientist’s clear mind sees a foggy world, full of complexity and nuance and messiness, the Zealot’s foggy mind shows them a clear, simple world, full of crisp lines and black-and-white distincti…"-Tim Urban, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
21. A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and Its Implications
By: Carl Sagan
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An analysis of the potentially devastating consequences of nuclear war discusses the environmental … read more
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