The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
By: Marcus Chown
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Bad Science
By: Ben Goldacre
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad … read more
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2. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
3. The Eight (The Eight #1)
By: Katherine Neville
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune te… read more
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4. The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett , Stephen Baxter
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
From the back jacket: NORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE. The Silen… read more
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5. Le grand roman des maths : de la préhistoire à nos jours
By: Mickaël Launay
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Dans les temps prehistoriques, les maths sont nees pour etre utiles. Les nombres servaient a compte… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
By: Sinclair McKay
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous and crucial achievements was made: the cracki… read more
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7. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
8. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
By: Chris Hadfield
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours … read more
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9. Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
By: Lisa Randall
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
"Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands....How good it feels to have Lisa Randall's… read more
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10. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
By: Michio Kaku
4.10
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he unified the rules governing the heavens and the Earth… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- physics
- science
11. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more
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12. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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- physics
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
13. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
By: Becky Smethurst
4.38
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more
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14. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
15. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
16. Al final siempre ganan los monstruos
By: Juarma
4.28
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Todas sus historias empiezan y acaban en este lugar: Villa de la Fuente. La gente habla mucho de el… read more
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17. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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18. Los días perfectos
By: Jacobo Bergareche
3.81
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
De la pasión a la rutina, una cautivadora novela que explora las dos caras de las relaciones amoros… read more
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19. Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
By: David Enrich
3.97
Format: 432 pages, ebook
New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the wo… read more
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- audiobook
20. Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
By: Sabine Hossenfelder
3.92
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot t… read more
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- physics
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"Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is 'We don't know."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Today I think they don't teach the principle of least action in school because then everybody would go and study physics."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn't be metaphors."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
"Instead of thinking of ourselves as selecting possible futures, I suggest we remain curious about what's to come and strive to learn more about ourselves and the universe we inhabit."-Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
21. El abismo del olvido
By: Paco Roca
4.81
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Paco Roca viaja a nuestro pasado con El abismo del olvido para recuperar junto al periodista Rodrig… read more
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"La democracia se cimentó sobre el olvido"-Paco Roca, El abismo del olvido
22. The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793
By: Niklas Natt och Dag
3.88
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Best Debut, The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017 The year is 1793, Stockholm. King G… read more
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23. Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
By: Paul Bloom
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science… read more
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"If you’re looking for a word to refer to the process of coming to know things through exposure to the right sort of information in the environment, I’d recommend “learning."-Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
24. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
By: Tobias Hürter
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more
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- physics
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25. The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
By: Michio Kaku
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future i… read more
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"The notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Thee notion that we live in a quiet, ordinary suburb of the galaxy was simple and comforting. But boy, we were wrong."-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
"Astronomers suspect that the Oort Cloud could extend as far as three light-years from our solar system. That is more than halfway to the nearest stars, the Centauri triple star system, which is sligh…"-Michio Kaku, The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
26. The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
By: Silvia Ferrara
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through o… read more
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27. Harvey
By: Emma Cline
3.07
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Quando Harvey apre gli occhi sono le quattro del mattino. Solo, immobile, nella camera da letto di … read more
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28. The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation
By: Michael Brooks
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of … 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. The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
By: Marcus Chown
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal sci… read more
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