Superlative: The Biology of Extremes
By: Matthew D. LaPlante
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinctions
By: David Quammen
3.59
Format: 378 pages,
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2. Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
By: Andrew Solomon
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Far from the Tree is a masterpiece that will rattle our prejudices, question our policies, and insp… read more
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3. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care,… read more
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4. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
5. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more
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"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
6. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
7. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
8. The Last Stone
By: Mark Bowden
3.71
Format: 352 pages, None
On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shoppin… read more
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9. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
10. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (STUDIES IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POLITCAL)
By: Verlan Lewis
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking argument that the political spectrum today is inadequate to twenty-first century A… read more
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11. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
By: Robert A. Caro
4.44
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson… read more
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"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
12. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
By: Egill Bjarnason
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for cent… read more
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- audiobook
13. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
By: Greta Thunberg
4.40
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, … read more
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- ecology
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"The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
"The transformation we need in order to stay below 1.5 C or even 2 C of warming may not be politically possible today. But we are the ones who determine what will be politically possible tomorrow."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
14. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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- audiobook
15. Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
By: Cody Cassidy
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented… read more
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16. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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17. The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, hi… read more
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- nature
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18. The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more
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"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
19. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
By: Peter Wohlleben
3.74
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more
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- ecology
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"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
20. What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
By: Adam Becker
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe… read more
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"Science, done right, works hard to respect absolutely no authority at all other than experience and empirical data. It never succeeds entirely, but it comes closer and has a better track record than …"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
"Philosophy has an image problem. Philosophers are thought to be mystics, religious figures, bullshit artists—anything divorced from reality... Why is philosophy held in such contempt by many physicis…"-Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
21. Bitch: On the Female of the Species
By: Lucy Cooke
4.45
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more
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22. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
By: Kim Foster
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more
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23. Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
By: Brian Cox
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive na… read more
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24. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
By: Pascal Boyer
3.92
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psycholo… read more
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"Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work."-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Information is our environment, our niche, and as we are complex animals we constantly transform that niche, sometimes in ways that make it possible to acquire even more information from our surround…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Deliberation is made possible by our evolved reasoning capacities, and this explains why, as historians and political scientists have along observed, free and open deliberation generally leads to cho…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, f…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
25. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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- audiobook
26. The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity
By: Matthew Van Natta
4.01
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Optimize joy, overcome obstacles—discover the calm of stoicism Being a stoic means embracing pos… read more
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27. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
By: Emma Specter
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more
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28. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
By: Nicola Twilley
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more
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29. 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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30. Superlative: The Biology of Extremes
By: Matthew D. LaPlante
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the biggest, fastest, deadliest science book you'll ever read. The world's largest la… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
