5 Best physics books like Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball

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Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

By: Philip Ball

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an…

If you liked the physics plot in Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Battle for God

By: Karen Armstrong

3.95

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an o… read more

Similar categories in Karen Armstrong's The Battle for God book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada , Michael Hofmann , Geoff Wilkes

4.26

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's … read more

Similar categories in Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies Alone book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • world war ii
  • germany
"Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité..."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

"Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot."

-Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone

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3. The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook

By: Victor Klemperer , Martin Brady , Juliusz Zychowicz

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Under the Third Reich, the official language of Nazism came to be used as a political tool. The exi… read more

Similar categories in Victor Klemperer's The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
"Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop."

-Victor Klemperer, The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook

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4. Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Nurse Amy Leatheran had a most unusual patient. Louise, according to her husband, celebrated archae… read more

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5. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

6. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

By: Sam Quinones

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more

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7. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

4.14

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more

Similar categories in Randall Munroe's What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"

-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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8. Everyday Sexism

By: Laura Bates

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 2012 after being sexually harassed on London public transport Laura Bates, a young journalist, s… read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Everyday Sexism book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Women who lead, read"

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

"Disbelief is the first great silencer."

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

"This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice."

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

"Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem."

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

9. E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

By: David Bodanis

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

E=mc2. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came … read more

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10. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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11. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's The Maniac book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • physics
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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12. Time Shelter

By: Georgi Gospodinov

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more

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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

"There is no time machine except the human being."

-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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13. 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

Similar categories in Carlo Rovelli's White Holes book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
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14. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

Similar categories in James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

Similar categories in David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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16. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.54

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

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17. The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

By: David I. Kertzer

4.28

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church… read more

Similar categories in David I. Kertzer's The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler book and Philip Ball's Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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18. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.11

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on t… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • physics
  • science
"On the whole, I don't fear death. Instead, I fear a life where I could have accomplished more."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people."

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

"While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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19. Travellers in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

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20. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

By: Niall Ferguson

3.65

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Most history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

By: Philip Ball

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an… read more

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  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 20th century
  • history of science
  • physics
  • science

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