The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
By: J. Arvid Ågren
4.02
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that …
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1. Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
By: Joe Abercrombie
4.34
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a b… read more
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"You have to realistic about these things."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
"Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
"Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
"Rare rages render a man frightening. Common ones render him ridiculous."-Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
2. Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life
By: Eva Jablonka , Marion J. Lamb
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular… read more
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- genetics
- science
3. End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen King
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winn… read more
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4. The Wasp Factory
By: Iain Banks
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more
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5. The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)
By: Steven Erikson
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up… read more
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6. How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of de-Extinction
By: Beth Shapiro
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science sa… read more
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7. Reaper's Gale (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #7)
By: Steven Erikson
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals in… read more
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8. The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)
By: Stephen King , Peter Straub
4.12
Format: 652 pages,
On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a sile… read more
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9. Midnight Tides (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)
By: Steven Erikson
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur are united under the implacable rule of… read more
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10. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
11. RELIGION: Ruining Everything Since 4004 BC
By: Zach Weinersmith
4.36
Format: 94 pages, ebook
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12. 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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- biology
- evolution
- 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
13. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
14. 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)
15. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
16. 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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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- 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
17. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
18. 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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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
"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
19. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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- nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
20. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
21. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
By: Frans de Waal
4.16
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
22. The Joy of Science
By: Jim Al-Khalili
3.61
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 les… read more
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- popular science
- nonfiction
- science
23. Riot Baby
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
3.72
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered … read more
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"When you have a purpose that doesn't involve hurting someone else, it changes the way you walk."-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
"Look at outside. We don't have drug dealers on the corners anymore. I can't remember the last time someone was shot on this block. My church-goers can come and go in peace." "When there isn't a curfe…"-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
24. The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
By: David Lipsky
3.86
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parr… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
25. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
26. How to Think like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking
By: Julian Baggini
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An invitation to the habits of good thinking from philosopher Julian Baggini. By now, it should be… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
By: Kathryn Paige Harden
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) A provocative and timely case for how the science of gene… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- genetics
- science
"We are living in a golden age of genetic research, with new technologies permitting the easy collection of genetic data from millions upon millions of people and the rapid development of new statisti…"-Kathryn Paige Harden, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
28. When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
By: David M. Buss
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“An exceptional book” (Helen Fisher) by a leading evolutionary psychologist and sex researcher that… read more
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- biology
- evolution
- nonfiction
- science
"Identifying evolutionary origins of nefarious behavior in no way justifies or excuses it."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
"Within-species sexual conflict arms races are analogous to arms races between predators and prey."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
"Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
"From the moment of conception, when the one tiny sperm joins the nutrient-rich egg, women are already contributing much more than the man."-David M. Buss, When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
29. The Scientist's Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career
By: Stephen B. Heard
4.43
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
A concise and accessible primer on the scientific writer's craft The ability to write clearly is c… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
30. The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
By: J. Arvid Ågren
4.02
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that … read more
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- evolution
- nonfiction
- popular science
- genetics
- science
31. Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
By: Russell Bonduriansky
3.55
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
How genes are not the only basis of heredity―and what this means for evolution, human life, and dis… read more
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- genetics
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