Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science
By: Andrew May
3.36
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By: David Deutsch
4.18
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o… read more
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2. The Selfish Gene
By: Richard Dawkins
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more
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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
3. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
By: Steven H. Strogatz
2.70
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more
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4. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
By: Amy Stewart , Briony Morrow-Cribbs , Jonathon Rosen
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes p… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By: Colin Woodard
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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7. Of Ants and Dinosaurs
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm
3.87
Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body… read more
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"If the entire history of the Earth were condensed into a single day, one hour would equate to 200 million years, one minute to 3.3 million years and one second to 55,000 years. Life would appear as e…"-Liu Cixin, Of Ants and Dinosaurs
8. Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation
By: Abraham H. Maslow
3.30
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When Abraham H. Maslow introduced the world to Humanistic Theory, a 'third force' in psychology was… read more
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9. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
By: John Perkins
3.36
Format: 96 pages,
From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, co… read more
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10. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
By: Val McDermid
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of r… read more
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11. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
By: Richard Dawkins , Lalla Ward
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the univers… read more
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12. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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13. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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14. Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
By: Stuart Firestein
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealiz… read more
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15. The Secret History of Christmas
By: Bill Bryson
3.84
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more
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16. Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)
By: Craig Alanson
4.53
Format: 23 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time 22 hours 29 minutes The Expeditionary Force saga continues with Fallout, the eage… read more
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17. Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)
By: Craig Alanson
4.51
Format: 698 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been … read more
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18. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
By: Edward Ashton
3.75
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more
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"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)
19. Light Chaser
By: Peter F. Hamilton
3.81
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
In Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell's action-packed sci-fi adventure Light Chaser, a love pow… read more
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20. Angrynomics
By: Eric Lonergan
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Economics increasingly fails to explain why the pressures of life appear to be intensifying at the … read more
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21. Ayoade On Top
By: Richard Ayoade
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more
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"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
22. Perihelion Summer
By: Greg Egan
3.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environm… read more
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23. Work Without the Worker
By: Phil Jones
3.62
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The brutal truth behind our automated futures and the new world of work We are told that the fut… read more
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24. One More Last Time (The Good Guys, #1)
By: Eric Ugland
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
A ruined life. A broken heart. He thought it was the end, and his gun sat ready to make sure. … read more
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25. Swiped
By: Adam Levin
3.48
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
Identity fraud happens to everyone. So what do you do when it's your turn? Increasingly, identity … read more
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"With your Social Security number in the wind, whoever finds it—or, more likely, whoever buys it on one of the many black-market information exchanges on the deep web—holds the keys to every part of y…"-Adam Levin, Swiped
26. On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
By: Martin J. Rees
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientis… read more
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"The global village will have its village idiots and they’ll have global range."-Martin J. Rees, On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
27. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
By: Margaret O'Mara
3.95
Format: 512 pages, ebook
One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley!The true, behind-the-scenes history of the … read more
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28. DeFi and the Future of Finance
By: Campbell R. Harvey
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, our financial infrastructure failed. Governments bailed… read more
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29. Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
By: Edward L. Glaeser
3.28
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with ho… read more
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30. Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science
By: Andrew May
3.36
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
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