Big History
By: D.K. Publishing
4.11
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life…
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1. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
By: Bill Watterson
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbescontinues to entertain with d… read more
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2. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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3. What It Is
By: Lynda Barry
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of question… read more
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4. Wildlife of the World
By: D.K. Publishing
3.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Wildlife of the Worldtakes you on a journey through some of the most scenic and rich animal habitat… read more
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5. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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6. Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide
By: Martin J. Rees , Robert Dinwiddie
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Continuing in the bestselling tradition of Animal and Earth, this definitive guide takes readers on… read more
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7. The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
By: Clifford A. Pickover
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Following the hugely successful The Science Bookand The Math Bookcomes a richly illustrated chronol… read more
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8. Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
By: Andrea Lankford
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The realstories behind the scenery of America's national parks For twelve years, Andrea Lankford li… read more
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9. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
10. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
11. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
By: Randall Munroe
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildl… read more
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"It turns out that if you accelerate at 1 G for several years, you can reach almost any destination in the universe. After a few years have passed [traveling at that rate], the effects of relativity r…"-Randall Munroe, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
12. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.11
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more
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- nonfiction
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
13. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more
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14. Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe
By: Marcus Chown
4.04
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, … read more
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15. Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
By: David Christian
4.09
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
** A 2018 GoodReads Choice Award Nominee in the History & Biography category** A captivating his… read more
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"Деякі види настільки зневажають мозок, що ставляться до нього, як до одноразової розкоші. В одного виду морських слимаків замолоду є якийсь невеликий мозок. Вони користуються ним, поки плавають по мо…"-David Christian, Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
"In the past two hundred years, human numbers grew to over seven billion, and our species began to transform the oceans, the land, and the air. Human-built roads, canals, and railways snaked across th…"-David Christian, Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
16. The Mysteries of the Universe: Discover the best-kept secrets of space (DK Children's Anthologies)
By: Will Gater
4.59
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Travel to the furthest reaches of the Universe and visit 100 remarkable objects along the way with … read more
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- reference
17. The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
By: Shulamit Ambalu
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Eighty of the world's greatest myths and characters, from the gods of Greek mythology to the Norse … read more
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18. Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943
By: Jeffrey R. Cox
4.44
Format: 529 pages, Kindle Edition
From popular Pacific Theatre expert Jeffrey R. Cox comes this insightful new history of the critica… read more
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19. 100 Mysteries of Science Explained (Popular Science)
By: The Editors of Popular Science
3.52
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Answers on subjects from dark matter to disappearing bees, from the magazine that’s been enlighteni… read more
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20. Big History
By: D.K. Publishing
4.11
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life… read more
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21. Where the Universe Came From: How Einstein’s Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos
By: New Scientist
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a yo… read more
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