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…
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1. A Planet of Viruses
By: Carl Zimmer
4.06
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
Viruses are the smallest living things known to science, yet they hold the entire planet in their s… read more
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"For comparison, tap out a single grain of salt from a shaker. You could line up about ten skin cells along one side of it. You could line up about a hundred bacteria. Compared to viruses, however, ba…"-Carl Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses
2. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
By: David Quammen
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more
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3. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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4. 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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5. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more
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6. 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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7. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
By: Richard Preston
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.A highly infectious, dea… read more
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8. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
By: Sonia Shah
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which… read more
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9. 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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10. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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11. Awakenings
By: Oliver Sacks , None , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
By: Nick Lane
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Oxygen, Nick Lane takes the reader on an enthralling journey as he unravels the unexpected ways … read more
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15. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
By: Nick Lane
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at th… read more
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16. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
By: Philipp Dettmer
4.59
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more
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"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
17. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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18. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
By: Nick Lane
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more
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"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
19. 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
20. The Age of AI and Our Human Future
By: Henry Kissinger
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more
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21. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more
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"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
