The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather
By: Roland Ennos
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the masterful author of The Age of Wood , a “fascinating” ( The Wall Street Journal ), “origin…
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1. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
2. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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3. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
By: Michio Kaku
4.10
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more
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4. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
5. 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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6. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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7. The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating … read more
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8. 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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9. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
10. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
By: Casey Means
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more
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11. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
By: Sally Adee
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more
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12. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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13. How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
By: Chris Wiggins
3.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From … read more
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14. Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
By: Tom Phillips
3.99
Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from … read more
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"Niektórzy z nas mają kłopot z porannym wybieraniem skarpet - wyobraz sobie, że naprawdę chcesz decydować, jakie skarpety powinien nosić cały naród."-Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
"While it's possible that this happened because an enterprising hunter-gatherer ancestor of ours woke up one day and said 'I am going to make friends with a wolf and he will be a Very Good Boy,' it's …"-Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
"Availability, meanwhile, means that you make judgement calls on the basis of whatever information comes to mind easiest, rather than deeply considering all the possible information that might be avai…"-Tom Phillips, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
15. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
By: John Grisham
4.49
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Cent… read more
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16. Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
By: Jules Howards
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary the egg. It'… read more
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17. The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather
By: Roland Ennos
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the masterful author of The Age of Wood , a “fascinating” ( The Wall Street Journal ), “origin… read more
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18. The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
By: Kate Kitagawa
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, span… read more
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19. 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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20. What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird
By: Sy Montgomery
3.94
Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition
A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from… read more
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21. Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
By: Gregory J. Gbur
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact “The science of in… read more
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