Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
By: Arup Chakraborty
4.24
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests…
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1. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.08
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit … read more
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- nonfiction
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"….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"I don't know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take."-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
2. Forces of Nature
By: Brian Cox , Andrew Cohen
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the ne… read more
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"You have to get old because of the geometry of spacetime."-Brian Cox, Forces of Nature
"[All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by nature."-Brian Cox, Forces of Nature
"[Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific education can bring.] There are too many people in this world who want t…"-Brian Cox, Forces of Nature
"There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor. Poltergeist was the first to be discovered. I know, I was curious about their names as w…"-Brian Cox, Forces of Nature
3. Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
By: Martin J. Blaser
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the… read more
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- health
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- medicine
- nonfiction
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4. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
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5. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
By: John Colapinto
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical trea… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
6. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
7. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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- medical
- medicine
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8. Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.47
Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Be careful what you wish for... Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who h… read more
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9. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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10. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
11. The Paper Eater
By: Liz Jensen
4.10
Format: None pages,
Welcome to the island paradise where utopianism and human greed are set to collide - with catastrop… read more
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12. The Great Naturalists
By: None
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This title tells the story of the development of ideas about natural history as seen through the li… read more
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13. Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
By: Paul A. Offit
4.09
Format: None pages, ebook
In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing expose of the al… read more
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14. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
By: Dava Sobel , Neil Armstrong
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorni… read more
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15. Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
4.18
Format: 501 pages, ebook
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on… read more
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"Please provide location and density of mass!"-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
"We don’t have time to amend your dogshit educations!"-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
"To try to bind a person is like writing in the ocean."-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
"I ... suppose I find you ... refreshingly uncontained."-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
16. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
By: Yeonmi Park
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of … read more
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- nonfiction
17. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- biology
- nonfiction
- science
- health
18. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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- health
- medical
- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
19. 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
- nonfiction
- science
- health
"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
20. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
21. Vagabonds!
By: Eloghosa Osunde
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, som… read more
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"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"...because some books won't come directly to you; they go through someone who loves you."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"Shame works, because there are those who we name when we talk power, but not when we talk harm."-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
"What I will also say is that women are magicians. I don't mean magic like the kind you were warned to avoid, I mean magic as in spinning story as lifeline, as in turning a wound into a star, as in ho…"-Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!
22. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
By: Brian C. Muraresku
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
23. How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
By: Lee McIntyre
3.86
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronaviru… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Nadie se autoidentifica como negacionista de la ciencia. A menudo se ven a sí mismos como más científicos que los científicos. Lo que uno de nosotros piense de ellos, muchos de ellos lo pensarán de n…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Quizá sea tan difícil que un negacionista de la ciencia cambie de opinión a base de evidencia porque, en cierto sentido, la evidencia no es realmente lo que fundamenta sus creencias. Puede que el con…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Aunque el contenido de los sistemas de creencias varíe, todo negacionismo de la ciencia parece fundamentarse en un reducido conjunto de errores del razonamiento humano. [...] 1)Evidencia basada en un…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"En su libro tremendamente útil How to Have Impossible Conversations, el filósofo Peter Boghossian y el matemático James Lindsay nos proporcionan un sorprendente consejo para tratar de convencer a alg…"-Lee McIntyre, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
24. Imaginary Friend
By: Stephen Chbosky
3.55
Format: 705 pages, Hardcover
Christopher is seven years old. Christopher is the new kid in town. Christopher has an imaginary … read more
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"Good guys win the war."-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend
"Selbst Monster waren liebenswert, wenn sie klein waren."-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend
"Unterdrücke deine Angst oder lass dich von ihr verschlingen."-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend
"You have to live your life before you get to live your Heaven."-Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend
25. Homesickness
By: Colin Barrett
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more
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26. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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- health
- medical
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
27. Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the riboso… read more
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- biology
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"When we have a clear goal in mind, we think we are struggling to reach a summit. But there is no summit. When we get there, we realize we have just climbed a foothill, and there is an endless series …"-Venki Ramakrishnan, Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
28. Algeria Is Beautiful Like America
By: Olivia Burton
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a “Pied-… read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series
By: Anthony M. Bean
3.72
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this (book). For more than 30 years, The Legend of Zelda—which imm… read more
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30. Artemisia
By: Nathalie Ferlut
3.86
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
L’incroyable destin de la première femme peintre officiellement reconnue par l’Académie. Épaulée pa… read more
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31. Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
By: Arup Chakraborty
4.24
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests… read more
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