6 must-read science books like This Is Your Captain Speaking: Stories from the Flight Deck by Doug Morris

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This Is Your Captain Speaking: Stories from the Flight Deck

By: Doug Morris

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Dou…

If you liked the science plot in This Is Your Captain Speaking: Stories from the Flight Deck by Doug Morris , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

By: Donald L. Miller

4.18

Format: 671 pages, Hardcover

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more

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  • nonfiction
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"

-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

2. Wind, Sand and Stars

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Lewis Galantière

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction

3. Secret Daughter

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

4.03

Format: 606 pages,

Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be -- she's newly married and has started her care… read more

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4. Hit Refresh

By: None

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

As told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinventio… read more

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5. Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography

By: David Bodanis

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of E=mc2, a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveal… read more

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6. A Life in Parts

By: Bryan Cranston

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A poignant, intimate, funny, inspiring memoir--both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creat… read more

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7. Kissinger

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Ga… read more

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8. Military Intelligence Blunders

By: John Hughes-Wilson

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this controversial, eye-opening book, a long-serving professional military intelligence officer … read more

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9. Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less

By: Joseph McCormack

4.36

Format: 94 pages, ebook

Get heard by being clear and concise The only way to survive in business today is to be a lean comm… read more

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10. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

By: Cody Cassidy

4.06

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

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13. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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16. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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17. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

By: Olivia Campbell

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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18. How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

By: Jimmy O. Yang

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shar… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Top Five Chinese Rules 1. Respect your parents, your elders and your teachers. Never talk back or challenge them under any circumstance. 2. Education is the most important thing. It's more important …"

-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

"I take pride in playing immigrant characters. I've come across people who had a negative opinion about playing Asian characters that have an accent. I've even met Asian actors who won't audition for …"

-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

"From eating at El Pollo Loco salsa bar to the Golden Globes buffet, I managed to stumble through this journey with the perseverance of an immigrant and the mindset of an American. I learned to thrive…"

-Jimmy O. Yang, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

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19. Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories

By: Kelly Ripa

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An instant  New York Times  bestseller from Kelly Ripa—a sharp, funny, and honest collection of rea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

By: Ananyo Bhattacharya

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

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21. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

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22. Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture

By: Mark Bergen

3.74

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, indust… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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23. A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more

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"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."

-Janika Oza, A History of Burning

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24. Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy

By: Josh O'Kane

3.94

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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25. Jasmine and Jake Rock the Boat

By: Sonya Lalli

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An impulsive decision to join an Alaskan cruise getaway brings the chance for an onboard romance in… read more

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26. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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27. This Is Your Captain Speaking: Stories from the Flight Deck

By: Doug Morris

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Dou… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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28. Terry & Me: The Inside Story of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope

By: Bill Vigars

4.19

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

There has never been a Canadian quite like Terry Fox and there’s never been a story quite like The … read more

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  • nonfiction
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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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  • nonfiction
  • science
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30. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner

31. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business

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3.90

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