The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
By: Marcelo Gleiser
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment an…
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1. Run
By: Blake Crouch
3.86
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
5 D A Y S A G O A rash of bizarre murders swept the country… Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconne… read more
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"There is no decent place to stand in a massacre."-Blake Crouch, Run
"Jack, I’m just telling you, if it turns out. . .I want you to shoot me."-Blake Crouch, Run
2. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
By: Sarah Bakewell
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
3. 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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- nonfiction
- science
"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
4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
5. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
6. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
By: Thomas Hertog
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual supersta… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"We can compare spacetime to an open, conic cup. We move forward in time by following the cone upward to the top. We move through space by going around in circles. If we imagine going back in time, we…"-Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
7. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
8. The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
By: Steven Novella
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadma… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
9. The Bear
By: Andrew Krivak
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last t… read more
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"Sleep is the only balm I know."-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"But we don't get to choose when we leave here to sleep on the mountain. We all have to sleep on the mountain one day. Even the bear. Even when we struggle with all our will not to."-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"Her father told her once that all animals were creatures of habit and so, too, were they. The difference was she could choose to change her habits. Animals changed when they were afraid. Change befor…"-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
"Imagine it from here everything you say in front of you — lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon — was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean look…"-Andrew Krivak, The Bear
10. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
12. Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
By: Kieran Setiya
3.58
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022" Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challeng… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
13. The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
By: Adam Frank
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experie… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
14. Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe
By: George Musser
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory exploration of why a "theory of everything" is likely to depend on a theory of mind. … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
15. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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- nonfiction
16. On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
By: Abrahm Lustgarten
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens o… read more
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- science
17. The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
By: Marcelo Gleiser
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment an… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
18. Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
By: Steve Benen
4.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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- nonfiction
19. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains
By: Clayton Page Aldern
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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- nonfiction
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21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
