A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
By: Samanth Subramanian
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
J. B. S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood appre…
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1. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
2. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless plane… read more
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3. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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- biology
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4. 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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5. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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6. Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
By: Geoffrey West
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the fi… read more
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7. How the Mind Works
By: Steven Pinker
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, d… read more
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8. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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9. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more
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10. The Dharma Bums
By: Jack Kerouac
4.71
Format: None pages,
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more
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11. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
By: Jennifer A. Doudna , Samuel H. Sternberg
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a c… read more
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12. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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13. The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics: With a New Afterword
By: None
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
Tracing the development of population genetics through the writings of such luminaries as Darwin, G… read more
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14. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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15. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
16. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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- india
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17. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
18. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
19. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
20. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
21. 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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- biology
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22. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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- biography
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
23. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
By: Michael Lewis
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more
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24. 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
25. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
By: Simon Winchester
4.14
Format: 416 pages, ebook
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industr… read more
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- biography
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"From a book talk in Palo Alto for "The Perfectionists"; He pulled out his new iphone and told us that its Apple-designed chipset has 8 billion[!] transistors, and that someone at Intel told him that …"-Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
26. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By: Walter Isaacson
4.29
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more
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- history
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"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
27. Just Add Water: My Swimming Life
By: Katie Ledecky
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and one of the best swim… read more
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28. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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- history of science
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29. A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
By: Samanth Subramanian
4.01
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
J. B. S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood appre… read more
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30. Daedalus
By: J.B.S. Haldane
3.76
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Ever since the time of Berkeley it has been customary for the majority of metaphysicians to proclai… read more
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"Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches."-J.B.S. Haldane, Daedalus
