Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist
By: Robert Trivers
3.46
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Trivers is a living legend in biology and the social sciences, a man the Harvard psychologis…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I was once watching a herring gull through binoculars side by side with Bill. In those days, a herring gull could not scratch itself without one of us asking why natural selection favored that behavior. In any case, I offered as an explanation for the ongoing gull behavior something that was nonfunctional and suggested that the animal was not capable of acting in its own self-interest. Bill said quietly, “Never assume the animal you are studying is as stupid as the one studying it."-Robert Trivers, Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist
"I was once watching a herring gull through binoculars side by side with Bill. In those days, a herring gull could not scratch itself without one of us asking why natural selection favored that behavior. In any case, I offered as an explanation for the ongoing gull behavior something that was nonfunctional and suggested that the animal was not capable of acting in its own self-interest. Bill said quietly, “Never assume the animal you are studying is as stupid as the one studying it."-Robert Trivers, Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist
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1. A Planet of Viruses
By: Carl Zimmer
4.06
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their s… read more
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"For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, ba…"-Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses
2. Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
By: Joan Roughgarden
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans,… read more
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3. The Squirrels Who Squabbled
By: Rachel Bright , Jim Field
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Two greedy squirrels learn to share in the third hilarious rhyming adventure from the bestselling c… read more
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4. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
By: Christopher McDougall
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more
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6. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
By: Steven Pinker
3.77
Format: 341 pages,
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- nonfiction
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7. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
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8. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
By: Steven Pinker
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more
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9. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
By: Mary Roach
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In ?Bonk,?the best-selling author of Stiffturns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most al… read more
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10. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more
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11. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
By: Andrea Wulf
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more
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12. Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more
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"Doctors is all swabs."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"We must go on, because we can't turn back."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
13. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
By: Steven Pinker
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and… read more
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14. The Children of Noisy Village
By: Astrid Lindgren , Ilon Wikland , Florence Lamborn
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Noisy Village! Go crayfishing in the summer at Nocken, "dipping in the pot" at Christmas… read more
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15. The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
By: Stieg Larsson , David Lagercrantz , George Goulding
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
She is the girl with the dragon tattoo--a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusadin… read more
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16. Die dunkle Königin (Das Lied von Eis und Feuer, #8)
By: George R.R. Martin , Andreas Helweg
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Aber wenn sie auch als Eroberin ins vom Burgerkrieg geschwachte Westeros kommt, so konnte sie doch … read more
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17. The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
By: Frans de Waal
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"An important and timely message about the biological roots of human kindness." --Desmond Morris, a… read more
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18. Dispatches
By: Michael Herr
4.22
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when… read more
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"for years now there had been no country here but the war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?"-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
"When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war."-Michael Herr, Dispatches
19. A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy
3.89
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more
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"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
20. Pippi Longstocking
By: Astrid Lindgren , Louis S. Glanzman , Florence Lamborn
4.41
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. Tommy and his sister Annika h… read more
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21. The Gruffalo (Gruffalo, #1)
By: Julia Donaldson , Axel Scheffler
4.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Just what is the Gruffalo? He has terrible tusks... and terrible claws... and terrible teeth in … read more
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22. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner
3.89
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more
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"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
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"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
23. Einstein: His Life and Universe
By: Walter Isaacson
4.33
Format: 201 pages,
By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more
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24. The Fly Trap
By: Thomas Teal , Fredrik Sjöberg
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
A Nature Book of the Year (The Times (UK)) "The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to som… read more
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25. 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
26. The Anomaly
By: Hervé Le Tellier
3.81
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more
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"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
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"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly
27. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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28. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
By: Bill Bryson
4.32
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more
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29. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
By: Henry Marsh
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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30. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
31. Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist
By: Robert Trivers
3.46
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
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"I was once watching a herring gull through binoculars side by side with Bill. In those days, a herring gull could not scratch itself without one of us asking why natural selection favored that behavi…"-Robert Trivers, Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist
