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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 419 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 486,182 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,294,075 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 429,058 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,264 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,256 ratings — published 1980
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 198,411 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 602,142 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,239 ratings — published 1985
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,841 ratings — published 2017
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 464,986 ratings — published 1997
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,196 ratings — published 1999
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 154 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 291,910 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,130 ratings — published 2008
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 232,796 ratings — published 2017
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,706 ratings — published 1995
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 220,558 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 285,793 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,084 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,110 ratings — published 1986
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,571 ratings — published 1987
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 116,404 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,644 ratings — published 2009
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,523 ratings — published 2018
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,968 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 904,406 ratings — published 2005
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,838 ratings — published 2008
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,801 ratings — published 2010
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,108 ratings — published 2004
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,258 ratings — published 1979
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 33,812 ratings — published 1997
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 32,700 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,428 ratings — published 2014
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,273 ratings — published 1999
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 102,189 ratings — published 2019
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,576 ratings — published 2008
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 57,120 ratings — published 2010
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,290 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,308 ratings — published 2003
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 626,623 ratings — published 2005
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,360 ratings — published 1859
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,340 ratings — published 2018
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,438 ratings — published 1994
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,755 ratings — published 2001
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,891 ratings — published 2004
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 861,631 ratings — published 2000
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,784 ratings — published 2014
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,843 ratings — published 2017
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 180,069 ratings — published 2018
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,168 ratings — published 1994
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,307 ratings — published 2020
“There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often gather in groups, large and small, and in the course of their mutual chattering , under a wide variety of circumstances, they are induced to engage in bouts of involuntary, convulsive respiration, a sort of loud, helpless, mutually reinforcing group panting that sometimes is so severe as to incapacitate them. Far from being aversive,however, these attacks seem to be sought out by most members of the species, some of whom even appear to be addicted to them.
...the species in Homo sapiens (which does indeed inhabit South America, among other places), and the behavior is laughter.”
― Consciousness Explained
...the species in Homo sapiens (which does indeed inhabit South America, among other places), and the behavior is laughter.”
― Consciousness Explained
“Lysenkoism may be useful only because it provides a lesson. Whether we like it or not, the days of the independent scientist and of independent science are about over. The more important science becomes in the lives of individuals and of nations, the more it will need popular support and will have to submit to social control. But the forms and techniques of this support and control have not yet been devised and tested. The problem is a new one. The Soviet rulers have tried a solution, but their solution has resulted in lysenkoism, and thus proved to be a dismal failure.”
― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
― The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
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