Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Avi Loeb
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
Arthur Firstenberg
4.8 on Amazon
5 HN comments
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
4.2 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Turn Left At Orion: Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope - and How to Find Them (Hundreds of Night Sky Objects to See in a Home Telescope – and How to Find Them)
Guy Consolmagno
4.7 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Paul Stamets
4.8 on Amazon
5 HN comments
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
Annie Duke and Penguin Audio
4.4 on Amazon
5 HN comments
The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight
Valter Longo
4.4 on Amazon
5 HN comments
The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight
Satchin Panda PhD
4.6 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
John McWhorter
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
David Spiegelhalter
4.6 on Amazon
5 HN comments
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson
4.5 on Amazon
5 HN comments
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)
William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
4.6 on Amazon
5 HN comments
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer and Tantor Audio
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Ants: Workers of the World
Eleanor Spicer Rice and Eduard Florin Niga
3.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
petefordeonJan 5, 2020
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Astrophysics For People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
bonus round:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Shoedog by Phil Knight
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
thr0waway1239onMay 18, 2017
Maybe "for people in a hurry" will become the new "for dummies" franchise? I did a quick search on Amazon for the quoted phrase, there are very few books with that title (although someone called Lynda Hudson seems to have cashed in on the phrase).
alltakendamnedonJune 21, 2017
Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
Astrophysics for people in a hurry, Neil De Grasse Tyson
m10nonSep 5, 2018
- Discrimination and Disparities By: Thomas Sowell
- A Colony in a Nation: Chris Hayes
- Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates
(three very different takes on race relations in America)
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli
- When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder
- Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power: Noam Chomsky
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now: Jaron Lanier
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