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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Vanedyr - Videnskabens manipulation af vores instinkter
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
Quo vAIdis
The Seven Ages of Death
Depphjärnan: varför mår vi så dåligt när vi har det så bra?
Χωράει όλη η αρχαιότητα στο ασανσέρ;
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
Quantum Supremacy
Traumaland. Polacy w cieniu przeszłości
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
A Brief History of Time
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Selfish Gene
Cosmos
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Bad Science
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Atom by Isaac AsimovMolecules by Philip BallBeyond the Zonules of Zinn by David BainbridgeThe Body by Bill  BrysonThe Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah
Science Books All Disciplines
9 books — 1 voter
Turing's Mistake by Peter J. DenningThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsThe Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
Popular Science for Smarties
134 books — 53 voters

I Contain Multitudes by Ed YongThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteBad Blood by John CarreyrouHeart by Sandeep JauharThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Sciencefriday's Best Science Books
137 books — 17 voters
The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsPalaces for the People by Eric KlinenbergThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Urban Planning/Social Ecology
115 books — 13 voters



Derek     Thompson
“ The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet. ”
― Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

Mary Roach
“ Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva." "Erika, I'm a dried up husk." "Don't say that, Mary. ...more ”
― Mary Roach, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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