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![Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger]()
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too." —Homer Hickam, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rocket BoysThe dramatic inside story of the historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company.SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade... -
![Clam I Am by Tish Rabe]()
Clam I Am by Tish Rabe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNorval the Fish is hosting a seaside talkshow for the Fish Channel–and the Cat in the Hat and Thing One and Thing Two are Cameracat and Crew! Among Norval’s special guests are his old friend Clam-I-Am (a shy gal who lives in the sand and likes to spit), along with horseshoe and hermit crabs, jellyfish, sand fleas, starfish, seagulls, and miscellaneous mollusks...Categorized as:
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![Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway]()
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography'Lively, rich and exciting... full of surprises' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads_____________Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.These are the six most crucial substances in human history... -
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![The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby]()
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist“A gripping fly-on-the-wall story of the rise of this unique and important industry based on extensive interviews with some of the most successful venture capitalists... -
![The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman]()
The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow can we capture the unpredictable evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in software? How can understanding the mathematical principles behind our physical world help us to create digital worlds? This book focuses on a range of programming strategies and techniques behind computer simulations of natural systems, from elementary concepts in mathematics and physics to more advanced... -
![The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson]()
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950... -
![Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery]()
Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRemarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.This new book—written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography—brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures... -
![The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle]()
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we confront a changing future...Categorized as:
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![The Control of Nature by John McPhee]()
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhile John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity...Categorized as:
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![Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite by Inès Léraud, Pierre Van Hove]()
Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite by Inès Léraud, Pierre Van Hove
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPas moins de 3 hommes et 40 animaux ont été retrouvés morts sur les plages bretonnes. L’identité du tueur est un secret de polichinelle : les algues vertes. Un demi-siècle de fabrique du silence raconté dans une enquête fleuve.Des échantillons qui disparaissent dans les laboratoires, des corps enterrés avant d’être autopsiés, des jeux d’influence, des pressions et un silence de plomb... -
![The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell]()
The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Machinery of Life is a journey into the sub-microscopic world of molecular machines... -
![Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas by Eva Saulitis]()
Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas by Eva Saulitis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScience entwines with matters of the human heart as a whale researcher chronicles the lives of an endangered family of orcas Ever since Eva Saulitis began her whale research in Alaska in the 1980s, she has been drawn deeply into the lives of a single extended family of endangered orcas struggling to survive in Prince William Sound... -
![Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea by Tracey Williams]()
Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea by Tracey Williams
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. In the months that followed, beachcombers started to find Lego washed up on beaches across the south west coast... -
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![The Planets by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen]()
The Planets by Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun's expanding power. Venus, once thought to be lush and fertile, now known to be trapped within a toxic and boiling atmosphere. Mars, the red planet, doomed by the loss of its atmosphere. Jupiter, twice the size of all the other planets combined, but insubstantial. Saturn, a stunning celestial beauty, the jewel of our Solar System... -
![Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert]()
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsComputers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers... -
![The Chip by T.R. Reid]()
The Chip by T.R. Reid
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThroughout the 1950s, engineers were stymied by the problem of how to connect the thousands of circuits that a sophisticated computer would require. The solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. Independently, each had hit upon the stunning Monolithic Idea, which became the silicon microchip... -
![The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts]()
The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHumanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted... -
![Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell]()
Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes it unlike any other place in the world... -
![The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns]()
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this riveting chronicle, which accompanies a documentary to be broadcast on PBS in the fall, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s...Categorized as:
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![World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christophe Blain]()
World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christophe Blain
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA rich and colorful French graphic novel that has become a word-of-mouth sensation and transformed the way hundreds of thousands of people think about climate change.There is no green energy. Nor pink, nor black. Nor clean nor dirty, for that matter...Categorized as:
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![The Deep - Leben in der Tiefsee by Claire Nouvian]()
The Deep - Leben in der Tiefsee by Claire Nouvian
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters — the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where life can develop... -
![The Pine Barrens by John McPhee]()
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens... -
![The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin]()
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society“ A master class on how the world works... -
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![What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe]()
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA New York Times Bestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the... -
![The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane, Ник Лейн]()
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane, Ник Лейн
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began... -
![Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove, Howard Chua-Eoan]()
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove, Howard Chua-Eoan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings*Now a New York Times Best Seller*Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity... -
![Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein]()
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMoney only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money... -
![Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis]()
Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy — and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that...Categorized as:
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![The Bicycle Wheel by Jobst Brandt]()
The Bicycle Wheel by Jobst Brandt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 'Bicycle Wheel' is a book for every cyclist, from novice rider to experienced wheel builder, going beyond the most commonly asked questions...
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