Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole
By: Sarah Dry
3.66
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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1. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
By: Jodi Taylor
3.88
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
"History is just one damned thing after another." Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Ma… read more
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"Your primary survival strategy will always be running away."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"He had fallen for Cal like a sperm-whale failing to clear the Grand Canyon on a bicycle."-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
"The eyes of the world are fixed on Mars at the moment, sir. Everywhere I look the arts are being shunted aside for technology. It's not necessarily a bad thing but, maybe in some small way, this coul…"-Jodi Taylor, Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
2. The Seven-Percent Solution
By: Nicholas Meyer
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, "The Seven-Per-Cent… read more
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3. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
4. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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5. Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
By: Miles J. Unger
3.20
Format: None pages,
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6. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
7. 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
- nature
- science
8. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
By: Dan Jones
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more
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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
9. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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- history
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
10. Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
By: Sid Meier
4.19
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
The life and career of the legendary developer celebrated as the “godfather of computer gaming,” an… read more
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- history
"In the right context, a game is not just a vehicle for fun, but an exercise in self-determination and confidence."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Separately is probably how I work best with everyone, to be honest. I'm an introvert who likes people: I want to collaborate on the whole, but do my part individually."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Whatever it is you want to be good at, you have to make sure you continue to read, and learn, and seek joy elsewhere, because you never know where inspiration will strike."-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
"Games were not just a diversion, I realized. Games could make you feel. If great literature could would its power through nothing but black squiggles on a page, how much more could be done with movem…"-Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
11. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
12. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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13. The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
By: Nicholas Meyer
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh , Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes … read more
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14. The Bodies in the Library (First Edition Library Mystery, #1)
By: Marty Wingate
3.65
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Hayley Burke's fresh start as the curator of The First Edition Society's library in Bath, England, … read more
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15. Strange Beasts of China
By: Yan Ge
3.80
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful nov… read more
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"All we have are stories."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"Never cry, or your tears will water your sorrow and it'll grow."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"We were city people, after all, and didn't ask too many questions."-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
"People should leave when their story is over,' he said. 'Don't you know that?"-Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
16. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- history
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
17. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
By: Valerie Hansen
3.69
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold e… read more
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- history
18. A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
By: Tom Standage
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses , an eye-opening road trip throu… read more
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- history
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19. The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
By: Naoíse Mac Sweeney
3.92
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
"A bold, sweeping bird's eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global per… read more
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- history
20. Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole
By: Sarah Dry
3.66
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
How is the climate where you are? And how did it get that way? How does the great complex global in… read more
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- history
- academic
- nonfiction
- climate change
- education
- environment
- science
21. Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
By: Andrew Stuhl
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In recent years, journalists and environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a… read more
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