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The Big Picture Books
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 39,042 ratings — published 1985
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 364,641 ratings — published 2008
The Big Picture (Katie Parker Productions, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 2,383 ratings — published 2008
The Present Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,748 ratings — published 1846
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 8,929 ratings — published 2012
The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,599 ratings — published 2011
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 827 ratings — published
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,131 ratings — published 2014
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 15,789 ratings — published 2017
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 52 ratings — published
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck (ebook)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,426 ratings — published 2017
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 786 ratings — published 2014
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 15,007 ratings — published 2020
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,166 ratings — published 2023
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 52,774 ratings — published 1979
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 234,736 ratings — published 1864
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 22,723 ratings — published 2008
The Maniac (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 27,397 ratings — published 2023
When We Cease to Understand the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 64,932 ratings — published 2020
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.77 — 559 ratings — published 2021
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 2,496 ratings — published 2019
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 3,812 ratings — published
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 4,094 ratings — published 2009
The Big Picture: Gross Anatomy, Medical Course & Step 1 Review (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 132,368 ratings — published 2011
The Big Picture (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,738 ratings — published 1997
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 9,345 ratings — published 1994
The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith (ebook)
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avg rating 3.54 — 3,215 ratings — published 2012
Mortality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 29,632 ratings — published 2012
The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 5,025 ratings — published 2009
My Life with the Saints (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,380 ratings — published 2006
Lament for a Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 2,688 ratings — published 1987
The Tattooed Jesus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 93 ratings — published 2014
Apostate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 208 ratings — published 2013
Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 33 ratings — published 2011
Missing from Action: A Powerful Historical Response to the Crisis Among American Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 1996
What's So Great About Christianity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,634 ratings — published 2007
Economics in One Lesson (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 21,704 ratings — published 1946
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 104,827 ratings — published 1992
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 162,837 ratings — published 2015
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 4,177 ratings — published 2015
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,295 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Focus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,512 ratings — published 2000
Reasons to Stay Alive (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 112,743 ratings — published 2015
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 27,444 ratings — published 2011
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 9,988 ratings — published 1997
Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 10,282 ratings — published 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,274,242 ratings — published 2011
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 97,051 ratings — published 1997
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,734 ratings — published 2010
“But what I knew in my head stayed up there, swirling about the other ten zillion things I had retained. That knowledge informed my actions, what I did and how I did it.
What Emma knew filtered from her head down into her heart and informed who she was—what I have since come to call the Infinite Migration. If my wonderings about life were scientific, bent toward examination and physical discovery, Emma’s all leaned toward matters of the heart. While I could understand and explain the physics behind a rainbow, Emma saw the colors. When it came to life, I saw each piece and how they all fit together, and Emma saw the image on the face of the puzzle. And every now and then, she’d walk me through the door into her world and show it to me.”
― When Crickets Cry
What Emma knew filtered from her head down into her heart and informed who she was—what I have since come to call the Infinite Migration. If my wonderings about life were scientific, bent toward examination and physical discovery, Emma’s all leaned toward matters of the heart. While I could understand and explain the physics behind a rainbow, Emma saw the colors. When it came to life, I saw each piece and how they all fit together, and Emma saw the image on the face of the puzzle. And every now and then, she’d walk me through the door into her world and show it to me.”
― When Crickets Cry
“An outsider may wonder how deep a specialist must dig his hole before he realizes that he has lost sight of the horizon...”
― Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation & Seaborne Civilizations
― Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation & Seaborne Civilizations
