What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
By: Ernst W. Mayr
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
This collection of revised and new essays argues that biology is an autonomous science rather than …
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1. One Part Woman
By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All of Kali and Ponna’s efforts to conceive a child—from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages… read more
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"There is no female without the male, and no male without the female. The world goes on only when they come together."-பெருமாள் முருகன், One Part Woman
2. Em and The Big Hoom
By: Jerry Pinto
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more
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"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
3. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
4. The Meaning of Human Existence
By: Edward O. Wilson
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a spec… read more
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- biology
- evolution
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
5. Time Out of Joint
By: Philip K. Dick
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Time Out of Jointis Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the wo… read more
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6. The Social Conquest of Earth
By: Edward O. Wilson
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and pass… read more
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7. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Rotraut Susanne Berner , Michael Henry Heim
4.00
Format: None pages,
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Rob… read more
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8. The Gambler
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson
3.91
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more
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- philosophy
"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
9. Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
By: Margaret Atwood
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Oryx and Crakeis at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman… read more
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10. Chance and Necessity
By: Jacques Monod
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This radical book by Nobel laureate Monod is an important intellectual event. Chance and Necessity … read more
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11. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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12. Shibumi
By: Trevanian
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nicholai Hel is the world's most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he i… read more
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13. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
14. Contact
By: Carl Sagan
4.15
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all—the … read more
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"Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter."-Carl Sagan, Contact
"Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?"-Carl Sagan, Contact
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."-Carl Sagan, Contact
15. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- science
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
16. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
17. Ezbere Yaşayanlar: Vazgeçemediğimiz Alışkanlıklarımızın Kökenleri
By: Emrah Safa Gürkan
4.20
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
"Özgünlük" ve "yeni"nin sürekli övüldüğü bir çağda, detaylarda ne kadar ayrışsak da temelde birbiri… read more
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- nonfiction
18. What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
By: Paul Nurse
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Nobel Prize–winning scientist’s elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and the… read more
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- evolution
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- science
19. Et si le temps n'existait pas ?
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.16
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
Dans ce court essai, Carlo Rovelli s'interroge sur la notion d'espace et de temps et discute des te… read more
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- nonfiction
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20. What Makes Biology Unique?: Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
By: Ernst W. Mayr
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
This collection of revised and new essays argues that biology is an autonomous science rather than … read more
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