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…
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1. Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
By: Douglas Adams
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu o… read more
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"Fuck ’em,"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere."-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
"I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford"-Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
2. Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
By: Jerry A. Coyne
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with sci… read more
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"For good people to do evil doesn't require only religion, or even any religion, but simply one of it's key elements: belief without evidence-in other words, faith. And that kind of faith is seen not …"-Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
3. Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
By: Dick Swaab
3.90
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Het verhaal van je leven is het verhaal van je brein. Dat begint in de baarmoeder, waar de hersenen… read more
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"Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were precede…"-Dick Swaab, Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
4. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more
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5. The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
By: Brian Cox , Jeffrey R. Forshaw
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the … read more
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- popular science
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6. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
7. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million c… read more
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8. Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed
By: Jim Al-Khalili
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
In this lively look at quantum science, a physicist takes an entertaining and enlightening journey … read more
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9. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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10. Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
By: Ray Jayawardhana
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book Award A Publishers … read more
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11. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
By: John Gribbin
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more
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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
12. Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos
By: Brian Cox , Jeffrey R. Forshaw
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, … read more
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13. The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon
By: Brian Clegg
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The phenomenon that Einstein thought too spooky and strange to be true What is entanglement?It's a … read more
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14. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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15. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
16. The World According to Physics
By: Jim Al-Khalili
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more
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- nonfiction
- physics
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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
17. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
By: Mustafa Suleyman
3.86
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more
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18. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
19. Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
By: Harry Cliff
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening ac… read more
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20. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By: Tim Spector
4.27
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more
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21. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
By: Tim James
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What is the chemical symbol for a human? What's the strongest acid ever made? Can human beings real… read more
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22. Beyond Weird
By: Philip Ball
4.11
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
'This is the book I wish I could have written but am very glad I've read' Jim Al-Khalili ‘I thin… read more
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"Quantum theory had the strangest genesis,"-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"[C]lassical physics is just a special case of quantum physics."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Cabe decir que los genios tienen más posibilidades de incurrir en el error que la media."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
"Creer que el genio conlleva estar libre de error es malinterpretar la naturaleza de la creatividad y el entendimiento."-Philip Ball, Beyond Weird
23. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more
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24. Quantum Physics for Beginners: An Easy and Complete Physics Book of Its Most Important Theories. Discover the Secrets of Quantum Mechanics from String Theory to Quantum Computing
By: Susanne Dam Nygaard
3.46
Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition
Quantum physics has never been so simple if you find it explained like this!✓ Have you always been … read more
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25. Gravitational Waves: How Einstein’s Spacetime Ripples Reveal the Secrets of the Universe
By: Brian Clegg
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on electromagnetic radiation: visible light,… read more
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26. Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe (Hot Science)
By: Brian Clegg
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. Th… read more
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27. Fundamental: How quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything (except gravity)
By: Tim James
4.32
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies t… read more
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28. The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye
By: Matthew Bothwell
4.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A guide to the 99% of the Universe our eyes can’t see from a dazzling new voice in popular science … read more
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29. 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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30. How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
By: Bruce Benamran
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A math-free introduction to the greatest scientific ideas of the last 2,000 years: "This is the boo… read more
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31. Astronomical: From Quark-stars to Wormholes, the Weird Science of Our Universe
By: Tim James
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Does the Big Bang prove the existence of God? What's the Universe expanding into? Is Earth the only… read more
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