How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics
By: James D. Stein
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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1. Brave Companions: Portraits in History
By: David McCullough
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780671792763 From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Li… read more
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"…the little known events of a given time, and people who are not in the headlines can be what matters most in the long run – and the long run is the measure of history."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"Mainly, writing means a good deal of hard thinking … yet sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"The problem, as Thornton Wilder said, lies in the effort to employ the past tense in such a way that it does not rob those events of their character of having occurred in freedom."-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
"In writing history, to catch the feeling and well as the truth of other times, it is of utmost importance … to convey the sense that things need not have happened as they did…the past, after all, is …"-David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History
2. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
By: Paul A. Offit
4.23
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
3. Death on Deadline
By: Robert Goldsborough
3.97
Format: 352 pages,
The chief shareholder in the New York Gazette was appalled when family divisons made it seem inevit… read more
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4. Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper, #2)
By: Christopher Moore
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing--and you know that can't be g… read more
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5. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By: David Sedaris
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them retur… read more
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6. The Children of Húrin
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more
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7. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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8. Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
By: Lee Child
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Women are being murdered nationwide by a killer who leaves no trace of evidence, no fatal wounds, n… read more
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9. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
By: Brian Greene
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
10. Finding Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Once and Future King
By: Adam Ardrey
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An Arthurian mystery revealed! A new examination that will delight fans everywhere Arthur, the grea… read more
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11. Skin Tight (Mick Stranahan, #1)
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages,
New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced ac… read more
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12. Old Friends
By: Tracy Kidder
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Two old men in a little room. Together they represent some one hundred and sixty years of memory, o… read more
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13. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more
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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
14. Not Quite a Duchess (The Boston Heiresses, #1)
By: Ava Rose
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
One confident Duchess. One broken hero. With danger looming, will they uncover more than they barga… read more
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15. Another Time and Place (Echoes of War, #1)
By: Samantha Grosser
4.24
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here A brief encounter changes two lives… read more
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16. The Banished
By: Alex MacLean
4.27
Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition
Based on a true story. Annapolis Royal, 1755. When frontier tensions boil over, the people of Acad… read more
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17. The Wren and the Swordfish Pilot
By: Stella Hutchinson
4.53
Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition
Heart-warming, courageous, and ultimately uplifting – for all lovers of World War Two historical fi… read more
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18. Life in Medieval Europe: Fact and Fiction
By: Danièle Cybulskie
4.01
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
HAVE YOU EVER FOUND yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really … read more
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19. So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
By: Forrest Church
3.94
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Today’s dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first n… read more
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20. How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics
By: James D. Stein
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In How Math Explains the World , mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical inve… read more
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