Astronomical: From Quark-stars to Wormholes, the Weird Science of Our Universe
By: Tim James
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Does the Big Bang prove the existence of God? What's the Universe expanding into? Is Earth the only…
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1. Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
By: Jerry A. Coyne
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with sci… read more
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- nonfiction
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"For good people to do evil doesn't require only religion, or even any religion, but simply one of it's key elements: belief without evidence-in other words, faith. And that kind of faith is seen not …"-Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
2. Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
By: Ian Fleming
3.63
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
How is this for an evocative passage from the second Bond novel? "Her hair was black and fell to… read more
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- audiobook
"Don't lose faith in your stars."-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
"Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff."-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
"Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve."-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
"You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy."-Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
3. The Stepford Wives
By: Ira Levin
2.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more
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4. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
5. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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6. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
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7. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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- space
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
8. 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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9. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
By: Donnie Eichar
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more
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10. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
13. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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- nonfiction
- space
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
14. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- audiobook
15. Prosper's Demon
By: K.J. Parker
3.73
Format: 112 pages, ebook
In a botched demonic extraction, they say the demon feels it ten times worse than the man. But they… read more
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"I told you that you wouldn't like me. I understand. It shows proper feeling. If you said to me: There's this man who is so callous and brutal that he doesn't give a damn about his fellow human beings…"-K.J. Parker, Prosper's Demon
"I can't see a thousand years into the future, I told Her, so I can't see the nasty, evil outcome. What I can see is Master Prosper's horse, which is going to be amazingly beautiful. And thousands and…"-K.J. Parker, Prosper's Demon
16. The Experience Machine
By: Andy Clark
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more
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17. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
By: Tom Ireland
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
By: Jack Hartnell
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more
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- science
19. Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible
By: A. Zee
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
An exceptionally accessible introduction to quantum field theory Quantum field theory is by far th… read more
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- physics
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20. 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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21. Astronomical: From Quark-stars to Wormholes, the Weird Science of Our Universe
By: Tim James
4.45
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Does the Big Bang prove the existence of God? What's the Universe expanding into? Is Earth the only… read more
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- astronomy
- space
- physics
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