10 must-read nonfiction books like Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information by Vlatko Vedral

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Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

By: Vlatko Vedral

4.33

Format: 25 pages,

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1. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

By: Richard Dawkins , Daniel C. Dennett

4.09

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

People commonly view evolution as a process of competition between individuals--known as "survival … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • science
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2. Prokleta avlija

By: Ivo Andrić

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Prokleta avlija/The Damned Yard (Description from Ivo Andric Foundation website) The novel is writt… read more

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3. Antimatter

By: Frank Close

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Hardcover

Of all the mind-bending discoveries of physics--quarks, black holes, strange attractors, curved spa… read more

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  • quantum mechanics
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • science
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4. New Moon (Luna #1)

By: Ian McDonald

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Moon wants to kill you. Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water,… read more

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5. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: None

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Our Mathematical Universeis a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discov… read more

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  • science
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • audiobook
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6. Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

By: Vlatko Vedral

4.33

Format: 25 pages,

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  • science
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  • quantum mechanics
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7. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

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8. The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses

By: Dorothy H. Crawford

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Here is a compelling scientific account of viruses, their history, and the dangers they pose--now a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

9. Dorohedoro, Vol. 1

By: None

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A blood-spattered battle between diabolical sorcerers and the monsters they created. Caiman was not… read more

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10. Bosnian Chronicle

By: Ivo Andrić , None

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chroniclepresents the struggle for supremacy in a region that s… read more

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11. What is Life?: How chemistry becomes biology

By: Addy Pross

4.50

Format: 158 pages,

Seventy years ago, Erwin SchrAdinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: 'What is life?'. How c… read more

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12. Children of Time

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more

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13. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

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"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

14. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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15. My Inventions

By: Nikola Tesla

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

This important title is the autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla appropriately titled his wo… read more

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16. The Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more

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17. 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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  • science
  • philosophy
  • quantum mechanics
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • physics
  • audiobook
"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

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18. Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers r… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
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"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

"Given their automatic tuning out, ADD children forever find themselves being told to “pay attention"

-Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

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19. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

By: Rutger Bregman

4.22

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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21. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

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  • science
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"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

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4.08

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4.32

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4.03

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4.18

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4.09

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