Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Practical Progress Towards a Theory of Everything
By: Don Lincoln
4.67
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Humanity has long looked to the sky and marvelled at the world around us. We've wondered why the wo…
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1. The Wright Brothers
By: David McCullough
2.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story ab… read more
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2. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
3. Dragon's Egg
By: Robert L. Forward
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them… read more
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4. How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
By: Eugenia Cheng
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to d… read more
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5. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more
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6. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose … read more
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7. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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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
8. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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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
9. Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
4.40
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more
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"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
10. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- physics
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11. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
12. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
By: David Reich
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more
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13. 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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14. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
15. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
16. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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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
17. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
By: Ray Dalio
4.28
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more
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18. 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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19. Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization
By: Amanda H. Podany
4.19
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
When we imagine what life might have been like thousands of years in the past, the images we often … read more
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20. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
21. Ball Lightning
By: Liu Cixin
3.79
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-B… read more
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"I realized that beauty for most people is characterized by fragility and powerlessness. True beauty needs to be supported by an internal strength, and develop itself through sensations like terror an…"-Liu Cixin, Ball Lightning
22. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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23. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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24. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
By: Christopher Wylie
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining… read more
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"We can already see how algorithms competing to maximize our attention have the capacity to not only transform cultures but redefine the experience of existence. Algorithmically reinforced “engagement"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabular. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “communi…"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabulary. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “commun…"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
"If we want to understand why these technology companies behave this way we should listen to the words of those who built them. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist behind Facebook, Palantir, and Paypa…"-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
25. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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26. The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
By: Suzie Sheehy
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An accelerator physicist's fascinating journey through the experiments that uncovered the nature of… read more
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27. Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
By: Dale E. Greenwalt
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life We used to thin… read more
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28. Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Practical Progress Towards a Theory of Everything
By: Don Lincoln
4.67
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Humanity has long looked to the sky and marvelled at the world around us. We've wondered why the wo… read more
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29. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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