Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
By: Dan Zak
3.83
Format: None pages, Audio CD
On a tranquil summer night in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Se…
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1. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
By: Eric Schlosser
4.26
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlos… read more
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- audiobook
- american history
- history
- politics
- war
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2. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
By: Joshua Foer
3.88
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our con… read more
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- science
"learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember."-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?"-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
3. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
4. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
By: Elaine N. Aron
3.85
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more
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- nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
5. Savages
By: Don Winslow
3.57
Format: 256 pages,
Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beac… read more
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6. The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
By: Bill Watterson
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
They're back: Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, … read more
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7. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
8. Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
By: Dan Schilling
4.30
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special O… read more
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- history
- war
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9. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
10. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
By: Kate Murphy
4.08
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Who listens to you? New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this … read more
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"You’re not listening!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"Silence is like white space in design, it surrounds what's important!"-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
"[E]verybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it's on you."-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
11. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. Lone Women
By: Victor LaValle
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more
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"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."-Victor LaValle, Lone Women
14. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- audiobook
15. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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16. Ring Shout
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.99
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more
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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
17. Whalefall
By: Daniel Kraus
3.73
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more
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"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
18. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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20. Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
By: Eric Eyre
4.07
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
An investigation into the corporate and governmental greed that pumped millions of pain pills into … read more
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21. Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
By: Dan Zak
3.83
Format: None pages, Audio CD
On a tranquil summer night in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Se… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- science
