Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life
By: Joe Schwarcz
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, an…
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1. The Second Mouse (Joe Gunther #17)
By: Archer Mayor
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Second Mouse takes Joe Gunther and his team off their Brattleboro home turf, forty-two miles we… read more
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2. 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
3. The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Flexibound
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more
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"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles
4. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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5. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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6. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
7. Secrets of the Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
4.43
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more
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8. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
9. Rednecks
By: Taylor Brown
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more
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10. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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11. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
By: Bill Hammack
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more
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12. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more
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"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
13. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more
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14. The Sky on Fire
By: Jenn Lyons
3.75
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Enter a world ruled by dragons… Anahrod lives only for survival, preferring to thrive in the ju… read more
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15. You Are What You Watch
By: Walter Hickey
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Data expert Walter Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, h… read more
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16. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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17. Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War
By: Marty Skovlund, Jr.
4.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who was killed a… read more
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18. Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
By: Matt Strassler
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, sh… read more
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19. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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20. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
By: Anthony Fauci
4.59
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more
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21. Assassins Anonymous
By: Rob Hart
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more
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"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous
22. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
23. The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
By: Nahlah Ayed
3.87
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
Love, betrayal, and a secret the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who … read more
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"I believe personally that the women of France did more than their men"-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
"For every generation there is a defining life-altering event, and for Guy and his like-minded cohort, it was this war; …"-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
"It had been forty years since Europe began to comprehend just how many of its children had been victims of book-burning authoritarians, of populism gone murderously awry, of blind and violent intoler…"-Nahlah Ayed, The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII
24. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
25. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
By: Amorina Kingdon
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call f… read more
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26. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By: Austin Frerick
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more
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27. Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World
By: Brandon Keim
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What does the science of animal intelligence mean for how we understand and live with the wild crea… read more
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28. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more
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29. Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life
By: Joe Schwarcz
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, an… read more
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30. The Repeat Room
By: Jesse Ball
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brillia… read more
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31. The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots
By: Daniela Rus
3.60
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation … read more
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