Lukas Dufka's votes on the list Best Science Books

Listopia > Lukas Dufka's votes on the list Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only (58 Books)

1	Cosmos by Carl Sagan 4.40 avg rating — 161,811 ratings Lukas rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 4.29 avg rating — 82,033 ratings Lukas rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 4.26 avg rating — 221,239 ratings Lukas rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan 4.33 avg rating — 40,344 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 4.06 avg rating — 56,349 ratings Lukas rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 4.40 avg rating — 24,943 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs by Jürgen Renn 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives by Jennifer Michael Hecht 3.97 avg rating — 208 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Starborn: How the Stars Made Us by Roberto Trotta 3.99 avg rating — 187 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball 4.20 avg rating — 724 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution by Jonathan B. Losos 4.07 avg rating — 1,419 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 4,109 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 1,550 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity by Chris Impey (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 103 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky 4.23 avg rating — 8,670 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Practical Progress Towards a Theory of Everything by Don Lincoln 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 7,226 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory by Thomas Hertog 4.06 avg rating — 2,640 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle 4.16 avg rating — 2,405 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 16,230 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.28 avg rating — 16,048 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth 4.10 avg rating — 5,238 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter 3.95 avg rating — 8,834 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer 4.58 avg rating — 13,805 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert 4.34 avg rating — 2,348 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut 4.09 avg rating — 68,019 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars by Jo Marchant 4.09 avg rating — 1,295 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalili 4.13 avg rating — 2,506 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 680 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal 4.21 avg rating — 5,791 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 2,353 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain by Grace Lindsay (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 712 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna 4.13 avg rating — 6,628 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 4.10 avg rating — 4,268 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone 4.22 avg rating — 636 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily M. Levesque (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 1,473 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul C.W. Davies 4.05 avg rating — 959 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.35 avg rating — 57,227 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong 4.17 avg rating — 32,956 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman 4.28 avg rating — 18,274 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 5,189 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich 4.14 avg rating — 6,257 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity by Michael Kinch (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 379 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe: And Our Place Within It by Andrew Newsam 4.26 avg rating — 57 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 20,898 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm 4.32 avg rating — 3,489 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History by Larry Brilliant 4.42 avg rating — 666 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Science and Human Behavior by B.F. Skinner 4.03 avg rating — 1,889 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson 4.31 avg rating — 102,861 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams 4.23 avg rating — 1,737 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 10,455 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 23,347 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body by Frances Ashcroft 3.95 avg rating — 768 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans de Waal 4.20 avg rating — 4,449 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Conversations with Carl Sagan by Carl Sagan 4.22 avg rating — 512 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin 4.19 avg rating — 950 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip S. Thorne 4.23 avg rating — 13,724 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan 4.26 avg rating — 6,271 ratings Lukas added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars