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Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey

John Barnett and Roald Hoffman

5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Serhii Plokhy, Ralph Lister, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

507 Mechanical Movements

Henry T. Brown

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

Jeremy Narby

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Scott Galloway, Jonathan Todd Ross, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Stone

William Hall

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

John Yudkin and Robert H. Lustig

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Jungle: A Photicular Book

Dan Kainen and Kathy Wollard

4.9 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Signals and Systems

Alan Oppenheim, Alan Willsky, et al.

4.1 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (Farm Animal Photography Book)

Traer Scott

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

John Rumble

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World

Josh Tickell and Terry Tamminen

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

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victorbstanonNov 30, 2020

I thought “Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge” was a pretty good book.

34679onMay 12, 2020

"Breaking Open the Head", by Daniel Pinchbeck

"DMT: The Spirit Molecule", by Dr. Rick Strassman

"The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge", by Jeremy Narby

"The Law", by Frederic Bastiat

ryneandalonAug 24, 2018

Thanks for sharing this, I love reading about how different societies interact with and approach psychoactives. Historical works liek this and anthropological works like Jeremy Narby's Cosmic Serpent are so intriguing.

comeondudeonDec 1, 2020

The author of Cosmic Serpent asked this question.

They replied “the plants told us”

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