Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics
By: R. Stephen Berry
3.47
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain ac…
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1. The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more
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"The fool supply was controlled..."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"The flies have conquered the flypaper."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"...rose like cream to the top of milk."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
2. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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3. 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
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his … read more
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5. A Little History of Economics
By: Niall Kishtainy
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
6. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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7. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Angela Richards
4.10
Format: 322 pages,
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8. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
9. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
By: Tom Chivers
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more
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10. 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History)
By: Donald P. Ryan
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ancient Egypt wasn’t all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life wa… read more
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11. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
13. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
14. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
By: Frans de Waal
4.16
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more
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- science
15. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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16. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
By: Tali Sharot
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more
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- science
17. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
By: Sy Montgomery
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgome… read more
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"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.
18. Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics
By: Bernardo Kastrup
4.40
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer's extraordinarily prescient metaphysics if und… read more
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19. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
20. The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
By: Peter J. Hotez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an anti-vaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promot… read more
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21. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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22. The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets
By: Michael Blastland
3.69
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - t… read more
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23. Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
By: John Gribbin
3.96
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
'An accessible primer on all things quantum' -Sunday Times Quantum physics is strange. It tells … read more
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- physics
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24. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
By: Alex Edmans
4.08
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefield… read more
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25. How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
By: Bruce Benamran
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A math-free introduction to the greatest scientific ideas of the last 2,000 years: "This is the boo… read more
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26. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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27. Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics
By: R. Stephen Berry
3.47
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain ac… read more
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28. The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us
By: Mark Robert Rank
3.76
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Upending notions of predictability and rugged individualism to reveal how truly random the world is… read more
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29. The Science of Sex: Every Question About Your Sex Life Answered
By: Kate Moyle
3.50
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An engaging manual exploring the many scientific, practical, and emotional aspects of pleasure, for… read more
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30. What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
By: Gary Smith
3.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while train… read more
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31. Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World
By: Brian Clegg
3.55
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to t… read more
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