Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
By: Brian Keating
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BIC…
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1. After the People Lights Have Gone Off
By: Joe R. Lansdale , Stephen Graham Jones , None
3.68
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
This collection of fifteen stories taps into the horrors and fears of the supernatural as well as t… read more
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"Each moment, the world washes its hands of you, starts all over again. Easy as that. Wonderful as that."-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off
"Thinking the bad instead of the good, defaulting to disaster instead of joy, letting the world infect you. And you know better. That's no way to live."-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off
"That had been his secret Indian Trick to hunting, back then: to not hunt. The same way you never find your wallet when you're actually looking for it. Just, keep a rifle with you."-Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off
2. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
By: Richard Rhodes
4.39
Format: 886 pages, Paperback
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of… read more
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- physics
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different fro…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly i…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to t…"-Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
3. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
By: John Vaillant
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far… read more
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- history
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4. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise
By: John Robinson Pierce
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intri… read more
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5. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
By: Dava Sobel
3.97
Format: 384 pages,
Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-centu… read more
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- history
- biography
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- nonfiction
- science
6. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
By: Lee Smolin , Henry Reich
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of ti… read more
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- nonfiction
- astronomy
- physics
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8. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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9. 14
By: Peter Clines
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate's… read more
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10. The Medusa Chronicles
By: Stephen Baxter , Alastair Reynolds
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was … read more
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11. Raylan
By: Elmore Leonard
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky coalmines, marijuana has become the biggest cash cr… read more
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12. The Unquiet Bones (Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon Chronicles #1)
By: Melvin R. Starr
3.85
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to… read more
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13. Death Is a Lonely Business (Crumley Mysteries, #1)
By: Ray Bradbury
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryp… read more
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14. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By: Steven H. Strogatz
4.30
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more
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"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
15. 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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"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
16. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
17. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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18. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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19. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.77
Format: 477 pages, Paperback
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physicists ha… read more
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"Comprehension is not the source of competence or the active ingredient in competence; comprehension is composed of competences."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"We Homo sapiens are the only species (so far) with richly cumulative culture, and the key ingredient of culture that makes this possible is language."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
"Don’t be afraid of a little metaphor; it won’t bite you, but you should always make sure you know how to cash it in for unvarnished fact when you feel the urge."-Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
20. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
By: Meg Lowman
4.05
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more
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21. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By: Kate Zernike
4.42
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixtee… read more
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"The women had spent their careers trying not to think about being women, hoping they would be seen as scientists. But as the first or only in so many settings, they felt they had to live up to a high…"-Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
22. Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
By: Alberto Manguel
3.91
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and cha… read more
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"My library was to me an utterly private space that both enclosed and mirrored me."-Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
"A library undermines whatever order it might possess, with random pairings and casual fraternities."-Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
"I’ve often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years."-Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
"My Latin teacher would say, “We must be grateful that we don’t know what the great books were that perished in Alexandria, because if we knew what they were, we’d be inconsolable."-Alberto Manguel, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
23. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
By: Sean Carroll
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more
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- astronomy
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24. The Brilliant Abyss
By: Helen Scales
4.04
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more
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"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss
25. 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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26. Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe
By: Jim Baggott
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Combining clear discussions of both quantum theory and general relativity, this book offers one of … read more
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27. Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
By: Rachel Love Nuwer
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders,… read more
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"He will catch anything he can get his snares and traps around, he began, including cobras, monitor lizards, pythons, turtles, otters, civets (small carnivores), fishing cats, and more. He's not a hug…"-Rachel Love Nuwer, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
28. x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
By: Eugenia Cheng
3.73
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant mathematician's new path out of gender inequalityWhy are men in charge? After years in … read more
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29. Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
By: Brian Keating
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BIC… read more
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30. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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