Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
By: Brenda Maddox
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate…
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1. Eaters of the Dead
By: Michael Crichton
3.70
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back… read more
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"تتوقف الأشياء الغربية عن أن تكون كذلك بفعل التكرار"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"ليس هناك والله خوف أعظم نت خوف الانسان حين لا يعرف السبب"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"...thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition."-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
2. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
By: Mary Roach
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh … read more
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3. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
By: Carl Zimmer
3.87
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of sc… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- nature
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4. The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.94
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but p… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"...religion focused far more on damnation than on consolation."-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
"The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come."-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
"They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws."-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
"The usual consolations of life, friendship and sex included, appealed to Newton hardly at all. Art, literature, and music had scarcely more allure. He dismissed the classical sculptures in the Earl o…"-Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
5. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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6. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
By: Norman F. Cantor
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Ring around the rosies, A pocketful of posies, Ashes, ashes, We all fall down. --"Ring Around the R… read more
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7. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson , Donald Goldsmith
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
"An accessible and extremely well-written exploration of the deep waters of cosmology, astrophysics… read more
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8. Sourdough
By: Robin Sloan
3.76
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world… read more
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"Culture,"-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"It was a fungal party hellscape."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"I agree," Mona said. As if she had any choice."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
"You went to Greenland...on purpose," Naz said."-Robin Sloan, Sourdough
9. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
By: Samantha Weinberg
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a st… read more
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10. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
By: Natasha Pulley
4.29
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian … read more
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11. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of… read more
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12. The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
By: Sujata Massey
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India’s only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murder… read more
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13. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- history
- biology
- evolution
- natural history
- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
14. Diary of a Young Naturalist
By: Dara McAnulty
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- natural history
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"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
15. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
By: Bridget Collins
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more
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16. Great Circle
By: Maggie Shipstead
4.11
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era M… read more
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"Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom. [Hadley Baxter]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"You don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them."-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
"We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control. [Mrs. Fahey]"-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
17. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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- history
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
18. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more
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19. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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- history
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"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
20. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
By: Sujata Massey
4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more
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21. The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
3.57
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more
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"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
22. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- natural history
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- nature
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"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
23. The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
By: Sarah Stewart Johnson
3.97
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-o… read more
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24. Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels
By: Sara Gibbs
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neithe… read more
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25. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
By: Jeremy Desilva
4.33
Format: 352 pages, ebook
In First Steps, paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva explores how unusual and extraordinary this seem… read more
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- biology
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- natural history
- nonfiction
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"...Bipedalism in an overly aggressive ape with purely selfish tendencies and a low tolerance for other group member would have been a recipe for extinction."-Jeremy Desilva, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
26. Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System
By: Natalie Starkey
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The volcano – among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. … read more
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27. The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
By: Christopher Skaife
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, the Tower of London has been home to a group of famous avian residents: the ravens. … read more
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28. Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
By: Dean R. Lomax
4.47
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to kno… read more
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- palaeontology
- nonfiction
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29. The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning
By: Tom Sharpe
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Comments - New Store StockBecause we have over 2 million items for sale, we have to use stock image… read more
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30. Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
By: Brenda Maddox
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate… read more
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