5 must-read physics books like Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence by Sara Imari Walker

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Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

By: Sara Imari Walker

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

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1. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • science
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2. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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3. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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4. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

By: Jaime Green

4.02

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more

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"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."

-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"

-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

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5. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields

By: Sean Carroll

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
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6. Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

By: Harry Cliff

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening ac… read more

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  • physics
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7. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

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  • physics
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8. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

By: Sean Carroll

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more

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  • physics
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9. The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System

By: Dante Lauretta

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA’s historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an aster… read more

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10. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • science
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11. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It

By: Christof Koch

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness d… read more

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12. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

By: Ferris Jabr

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voi… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
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13. Toward Eternity

By: Anton Hur

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more

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14. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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15. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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16. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

By: Sara Imari Walker

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

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17. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

18. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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19. Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI

By: Anil Ananthaswamy

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoi… read more

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20. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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4.46

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3.95

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4.37

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4.02

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4.47

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Mustafa Suleyman

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Salman Khan

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Bill Maher

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