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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,239 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,512 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,253 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,984 ratings — published 1976
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,970 ratings — published 2005
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 851,130 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 847,002 ratings — published 2000
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 616,746 ratings — published 2005
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 192,509 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 570,863 ratings — published 2011
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,506 ratings — published 1980
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 201,731 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 218,504 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,887 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 241,662 ratings — published 1985
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,841 ratings — published 2010
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,197 ratings — published 1997
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,389 ratings — published 2015
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,755 ratings — published 2016
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,684 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 78,959 ratings — published 1995
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 44,539 ratings — published 2008
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,343 ratings — published 2019
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 50,881 ratings — published 2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 468,222 ratings — published 2012
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 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,342 ratings — published 2010
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,731 ratings — published 2008
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 55,649 ratings — published 2009
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,391 ratings — published 1999
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 280,420 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,773 ratings — published 2010
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,440 ratings — published 1987
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 214,596 ratings — published 1985
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,487 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 552,565 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 129,894 ratings — published 2008
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,976 ratings — published 2014
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,291 ratings — published 2005
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 190,031 ratings — published 2013
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,313 ratings — published 1994
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 27,754 ratings — published 1999
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,129 ratings — published 2008
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,179 ratings — published 2017
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 111,993 ratings — published 2010
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,955 ratings — published 1997
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,307 ratings — published 2006
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,965 ratings — published 2007
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,303 ratings — published 2008
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 331,396 ratings — published 2019
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as pop-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,629 ratings — published 1999
“Des résultats qui apparaissent pour la première fois dans des rapports ou des livres, même à gros tirage, n'ont aucune fiabilité. Tout simplement parce que ces publications n'ont pas passé le filtre du contrôle par les pairs. Les éditeurs n'ont évidemment pas la capacité d'expertise du monde académique et leur premier souci est plus de s'assurer du potentiel de vente d'un livre que de la parfaite légitimité scientifique des arguments que l'on y trouve. Par ailleurs, un livre qui se glorifie de présenter des résultats s'opposant au consensus, ou à la pensée unique ou à l'idéologie dominante, a toutes les chances d'être une imposture scientifique.”
― Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)
― Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)
“This awesome world isn't just a spectator sport. It's symbiotic; it influences us, and we influence it." from A Walk Around the Block (Harper One)”
― A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day
― A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day
