27 Best nonfiction books like Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Eberhard O. Voit

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Similar categories in Carl Zimmer's A Planet of Viruses book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, ba…"

-Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses

Similar categories in Andrew H. Knoll's Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library) book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Matt Fitzgerald's How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"Exercising mental fitness was a daily battle for him, but a battle he chose."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"It was a very hard race from the word go with a combination of great runners and a tough course,"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"What is the logic of punishing yourself each day, of striving to become better, more efficient, tougher?"

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

"Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless pursuit of toughness, or guts—a kind of courage."

-Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

Similar categories in Daniel L. Everett's Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Gino Segrè's The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Giulia Enders's Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Russell Shorto's Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Stefano Mancuso's Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Roger Penrose's What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

Similar categories in Hope Jahren's Lab Girl book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

Similar categories in Magda Szabó's The Door book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

Similar categories in None's Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Similar categories in Kate Lister's A Curious History of Sex book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

Similar categories in Robert M. Sapolsky's Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Similar categories in David Reich's Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Sathnam Sanghera's Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"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

Similar categories in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."

-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Similar categories in Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Ed Yong's An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

Similar categories in Giorgio Parisi's In a Flight of Starlings book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"In the sciences and in poetry, there is hardly a trace in the finished product of the arduous work that the creative process has demanded, or of the doubts and hesitations that have been overcome in …"

-Giorgio Parisi, In a Flight of Starlings

Similar categories in Shane Parrish's The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key h…"

-Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

Similar categories in Lucy Cooke's Bitch: On the Female of the Species book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Paul Nurse's What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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Similar categories in Stanislas Dehaene's How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

Similar categories in Philip Ball's How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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"The growth and maintenance of living things like us is a delicate (but also robust) dance of cause and effect, cascading up and down the hierarchy of scales in space and time. This leads to that, but…"

-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

"I don’t anticipate a consensus any time soon on the question of how to define life, but it seems to me that cognition provides a much better, more apt way to talk about it than invoking more passive …"

-Philip Ball, How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

Similar categories in Martien Halvorson-Taylor's Writing the Bible: Origins of the Old Testament book and Eberhard O. Voit's Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction

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