How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
By: Bruce Benamran
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A math-free introduction to the greatest scientific ideas of the last 2,000 years: "This is the boo…
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1. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
By: Lawrence Wright
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more
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- history
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2. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
By: Nick Bostrom
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more
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3. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil… read more
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- physics
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4. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
By: Dan Ariely
3.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more
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5. The Addictive Brain
By: Thad A. Polk
3.97
Format: None pages, Audiobook
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/course... Addiction touches us all. Whether it's a friend who can't … read more
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6. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
By: Brian Greene
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universeand The Fabric of the Cosmoscomes his most expa… read more
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7. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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8. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- history
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
9. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
By: Steven Bartlett
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more
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- audiobook
10. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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- history
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- popular science
- science
11. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
By: Michael Lewis
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more
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"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
12. How to Say It: Words That Make a Difference
By: Allison Friederichs Atkison
3.47
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take… read more
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13. The Big Mysteries of Human Evolution
By: Elen Feuerriegel
3.92
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
4 hours and 28 minutes Who are we? Where did we come from? These aren’t flippant questions,… read more
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- history
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14. Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
By: Paul Sen
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understan… read more
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15. 100 Stars That Explain the Universe
By: Florian Freistetter
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Visit one hundred extraordinary stars that unveil the mysteries of the universe Our own Sun—a sour… read more
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16. The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye
By: Matthew Bothwell
4.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A guide to the 99% of the Universe our eyes can’t see from a dazzling new voice in popular science … read more
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17. The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
By: Robert Zubrin
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Zubrin, world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society, taps toda… read more
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18. Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
By: Frank Close
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection* The first major biography of Peter Higgs, … read more
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19. Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump
By: Rachael Bade
4.27
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold ac… read more
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- history
- audiobook
20. How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
By: Bruce Benamran
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A math-free introduction to the greatest scientific ideas of the last 2,000 years: "This is the boo… read more
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21. Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics
By: R. Stephen Berry
3.47
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain ac… read more
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