Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
By: Francis Crick
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Addresses the ultimate scientific question of the nature of life, using the hypothetical scenario t…
Want to Read"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."-Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."-Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. But this should not be taken to imply that there are good reasons to believe that it could not have started on the earth by a perfectly reasonable sequence of fairly ordinary chemical reactions. The plain fact is that the time available was too long, the many microenvironments on the earth's surface too diverse, the various chemical possibilities too numerous and our own knowledge and imagination too feeble to allow us to be able to unravel exactly how it might or might not have happened such a long time ago, especially as we have no experimental evidence from that era to check our ideas against. Perhaps in the future we may know enough to make a considered guess, but at the present time we can only say that we cannot decide whether the origin of life on earth was an extremely unlikely event or almost a certainty—or any possibility in between these two extremes."-Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. But this should not be taken to imply that there are good reasons to believe that it could not have started on the earth by a perfectly reasonable sequence of fairly ordinary chemical reactions. The plain fact is that the time available was too long, the many microenvironments on the earth's surface too diverse, the various chemical possibilities too numerous and our own knowledge and imagination too feeble to allow us to be able to unravel exactly how it might or might not have happened such a long time ago, especially as we have no experimental evidence from that era to check our ideas against. Perhaps in the future we may know enough to make a considered guess, but at the present time we can only say that we cannot decide whether the origin of life on earth was an extremely unlikely event or almost a certainty—or any possibility in between these two extremes."-Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
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1. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
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"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
2. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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4. Quarks, Chaos Christianity: Questions to Science And Religion
By: None
4.39
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Templeton Award winner and theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne explores the gap between science… read more
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5. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
By: Thomas Nagel
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Mind and CosmosThomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism… read more
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6. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
By: Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps
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7. Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of th… read more
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8. Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
By: Douglas Adams
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads-so… read more
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9. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more
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10. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
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11. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
By: Richard Dawkins
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3.46
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13. The Analects
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3.20
Format: 168 pages,
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14. The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
By: Michael J. Behe
4.04
Format: 176 pages,
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15. The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
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4.27
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
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3.97
Format: 480 pages,
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17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.17
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
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4.14
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4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
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4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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24. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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25. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
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4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
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4.43
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4.48
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"And in the end. It's just a man killing his son with a stone...then the galaxy burns"-Dan Abnett, The End and the Death: Volume III (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)
28. The End and the Death: Volume II (The Siege of Terra)
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4.15
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29. Echoes of Eternity (The Siege of Terra #7)
By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden
4.52
Format: 522 pages, Hardcover
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30. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
By: Francis Crick
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Addresses the ultimate scientific question of the nature of life, using the hypothetical scenario t… read more
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31. God’s Planet
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3.76
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
With exoplanets being discovered daily, Earth is still the only planet we know of that is home to c… read more
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