The Weirdness of the World
By: Eric Schwitzgebel
3.56
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosm…
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1. 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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"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
2. The Human Condition
By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more
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- philosophy
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3. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
By: Leonard Susskind
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo… read more
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4. R.U.R.
By: Karel Čapek , Nigel Playfair , Paul Selver
3.83
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word "Robot.… read more
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"Nobody can hate man more than man."-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
"nothing is stranger to man than his own image"-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
"Robot" is a machine that makes the functions of a man."-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
"A man has to be a bit mad [...]. That's the best thing about him."-Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
5. Indonesia, Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation
By: Elizabeth Pisani
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would "work out the details of the transfer of po… read more
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6. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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7. The Emperor's New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics
By: Martin Gardner , Roger Penrose
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing ev… read more
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8. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.18
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more
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9. 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
10. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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11. 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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12. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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13. 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?
14. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
By: B.J. Fogg
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The world’s leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by … read more
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15. Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
By: David Frum
3.96
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Trumpocracy poses the essential question facing America to… read more
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- audiobook
"We want things to return to normal, back to a world in which we do not have to waste time rebutting demented conspiracy theories and fact-checking farcical lies every single day. We want a government…"-David Frum, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
16. 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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17. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
By: Coleman Hughes
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more
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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
18. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how … read more
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19. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
By: Lisa Kaltenegger
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more
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20. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- science
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
21. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
By: Erik Hoel
3.68
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A fascinating exploration into how the brain creates our conscious experiences—potentially revoluti… read more
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22. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
By: Carole Hooven
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Testosterone: Misunderstood. Mythologized. Controversial. A Harvard evolutionary biologist debun… read more
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23. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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24. The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
By: Adam Frank
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experie… read more
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25. Growth: A Reckoning
By: Daniel Susskind
3.92
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethin… read more
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26. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
By: Christof Koch
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world’s leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness d… read more
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27. The Weirdness of the World
By: Eric Schwitzgebel
3.56
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosm… read more
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28. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
By: Sara Imari Walker
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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29. Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
By: Eliza Griswold
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting cris… read more
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30. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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31. 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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