Origins of Human Communication
By: Michael Tomasello
4.14
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this orig…
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1. Why Evolution Is True
By: Jerry A. Coyne
4.19
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized de… read more
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"These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve."-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves."-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31…"-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
"Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off…"-Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
3. What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
By: Jared Diamond , Ernst W. Mayr
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution … read more
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4. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
5. Death with Interruptions
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
4.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more
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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions
6. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
7. İnsan İnsana
By: Doğan Cüceloğlu
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Insan, iliskileri icinde surekli olarak "yeniden tanimlanan" bir varliktir. Doyumlu ve mutlu bir ya… read more
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8. Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
By: İhsan Oktay Anar
3.84
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Yeniceriler kapiyi zorlarken Uzun Ihsan Efendi hala malum konuyu dusunuyor, fakat isin icinden bir … read more
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9. The History of Manners (The Civilizing Process, Vol. 1)
By: Norbert Elias , None
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is Volume 1 of Elias's work The Civilizing Process. The History of Mannersexamines the links b… read more
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10. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Norman Thomas di Giovanni
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. The Book of Sandwas the last … read more
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11. The Ape and the Sushi Master: Reflections of a Primatologist
By: Frans de Waal
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
What if apes had their own culture rather than an imposed human version? What if they reacted to si… read more
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12. Mathilda
By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Mary Shelley's "Matilda" - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated fro… read more
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13. Speak, Memory
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of en… read more
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14. Planet of Slums
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages,
Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more
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15. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more
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16. The Future
By: Naomi Alderman
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
17. 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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"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
18. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
19. Survivor
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, … read more
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"Suicide is very contagious."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"this is the upside of already being eternally damned"-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
20. The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
By: Kwame Anthony Appiah
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year As seen on the Netflix series Explained From the b… read more
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21. Origins of Human Communication
By: Michael Tomasello
4.14
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this orig… read more
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