Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
By: Will M. Gervais
4.19
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
Does God exist? This straightforward question has spawned endless debate, ranging from apologists’ …
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1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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2. Hitch 22: A Memoir
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.02
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States … read more
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
" Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
" Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
3. A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
By: Richard Dawkins
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins. Ric… read more
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4. Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
By: Ara Norenzayan
3.32
Format: 344 pages, ebook
How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous… read more
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5. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
6. Arguably: Selected Essays
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguablyoffers an indispensable ke… read more
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7. Mortality
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more
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8. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
9. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
By: William B. Irvine
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more
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10. Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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11. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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12. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
13. Quantum Supremacy
By: Michio Kaku
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may… read more
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14. 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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- psychology
15. Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
By: Richard Dawkins
3.95
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to th… read more
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16. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
By: Brian C. Muraresku
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more
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"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
17. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.25
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol… read more
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18. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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19. The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
By: Steven Mithen
4.14
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the langua… read more
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20. The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
By: Adam Rutherford
3.83
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us … read more
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21. How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
By: Adam Rutherford
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience … read more
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"When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
22. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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23. On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
By: John Gribbin
3.77
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
A Waterstones Best Book of 2020The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully fo… read more
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24. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
By: Michael Taylor
4.24
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more
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25. The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
By: Lydia Reeder
4.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but mothe… read more
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26. 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.
27. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
By: Sara Imari Walker
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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28. 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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29. Contraduction
By: Dan Barker
4.38
Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition
In a quiet and unassuming way, Contraduction is utterly brilliant. Every page has a thought so deep… read more
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30. Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
By: Will M. Gervais
4.19
Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition
Does God exist? This straightforward question has spawned endless debate, ranging from apologists’ … read more
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31. The Trouble with Ancient DNA: Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science
By: Anna Källén
4.25
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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