Il museo dei numeri
By: Piergiorgio Odifreddi
3.32
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
"Cos'è il numero, che l'uomo lo può capire? E cos'è l'uomo, che può capire il numero?" A porsi ques…
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By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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3. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
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4. Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
By: Arch Tait , Anna Politkovskaya
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A searing portrait of a country in disarray, and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of journ… read more
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5. The Metamorphosis
By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold
3.88
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more
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"Oh, God"-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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6. The Martian Chronicles
By: Ray Bradbury
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
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7. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand
By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
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9. The World According to Physics
By: Jim Al-Khalili
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
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"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics
10. Bomba atomica
By: Roberto Mercadini
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
“Se il mondo è in fiamme, racconta una storia. A volte è proprio quando tutto sembra finito per sem… read more
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"È venuta al mondo una creatura nuova: cresce marcendo, si nutre della sua morte prospera sulla sua rovina."-Roberto Mercadini, Bomba atomica
11. La filosofia non è una barba: Dal prof più appassionante d'Italia vita, morte e pensiero dei grandi filosofi da Talete a Nietzsche
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3.59
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. Menti parallele. Scoprire l'intelligenza dei materiali
By: Laura Tripaldi
4.34
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
La materia è intelligente. Solitamente pensiamo i materiali che ci circondano come semplici strumen… read more
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13. Il museo dei numeri
By: Piergiorgio Odifreddi
3.32
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
"Cos'è il numero, che l'uomo lo può capire? E cos'è l'uomo, che può capire il numero?" A porsi ques… read more
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14. La fisica dei manga
By: Andrea Delnegro
3.35
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. L'infinito gioco della scienza
By: Edoardo Boncinelli
3.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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