Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained
By: Scientific American
3.77
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
The editors of Scientific American’s best-selling eBook, "Fact or Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths…
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1. The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
By: Ian Mortimer
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-160… read more
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2. Oh Sh*t, I Almost Killed You! A Little Book of Big Things Nursing School Forgot to Teach You
By: Sonja Schwartzbach
3.06
Format: 220 pages,
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4. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
By: William Manchester
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater sou… read more
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5. How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
By: Ruth Goodman
3.41
Format: 549 pages, Paperback
On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in Eng… read more
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6. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil… read more
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7. A Little History of the World
By: E.H. Gombrich , Clifford Harper , None
4.11
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich w… read more
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8. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
By: Bee Wilson , None
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. I… read more
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9. 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
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"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
10. London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World
By: Robert O. Bucholz
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Audiobook
No city has had as powerful and as enduring an impact on Western civilization as London. But what m… read more
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11. The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
By: Jennifer Worth
3.78
Format: 472 pages,
An unforgettable story of the joy of motherhood, the bravery of a community, and the hope of one ex… read more
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12. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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13. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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14. Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
By: Dean Buonomano
5.00
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A lively, surprising tour of our mental glitches and how they arise. With its trillions of connecti… read more
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16. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In oth… read more
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17. Impact Winter (Impact Winter #1)
By: Travis Beacham
3.98
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
"They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all … read more
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18. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
19. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
By: Kelly Vincent
3.51
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Imposter syndrome—the irrational self-doubt we feel despite obvious success—can strike at any time,… read more
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20. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.16
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more
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21. Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
By: Faith G. Harper
3.32
Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition
Our brains do their best to help us out, but every so often they can be real assholes--having melt … read more
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"We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself."-Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
22. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
By: Nathan H. Lents
3.95
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA… read more
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23. Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses
By: Athena Aktipis
3.52
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
You watch a horror movie or TV series and think, "Zombies don’t really exist". But when you conside… read more
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24. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
By: Julia Shaw
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more
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"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
25. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
By: Michael Shermer
3.81
Format: 7 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 6 hours and 30 minutes The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, enter… read more
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26. Spies! Sneaks, Snoops, and Saboteurs Who Shaped the World
By: Scott McCormick
3.90
Format: None pages, None
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Listen to the hilarious-but-true adventures of the wo… read more
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27. Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers
By: John W. Dean
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democ… read more
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28. Fact or Fiction 2: 50 (More) Popular Myths Explained
By: Scientific American
3.77
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
The editors of Scientific American’s best-selling eBook, "Fact or Science Tackles 58 Popular Myths… read more
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29. The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
By: Daniel W. Drezner
3.79
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
“[An] avalanche of repeated presidential absurdity. The reader realizes that this pattern is not pa… read more
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30. Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language
By: Simon Horobin
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade t… read more
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