Stiff
Lots of fun, lots of corpses but a bit a lark, a bit of a laugh.
science
The Emperor Of All Maladies
North Woods
The story of a cabin over the centuries and the story of America and the story of some ghosts, cute and sweet. A bit overwrought and maybe a bit fanciful at times, trying too hard to write with styles, but...
A City On Mars
Life on Mars is great edutainment, clearly the work of people who are passionate about research, space, and space research. It is full of fun anecdotes and what seems like a difficult to assail argument that space colonization is not...
The Rise And Fall Of The Dinosaurs
Brusatte takes you through an excellent history of both the dinosaurs themselves and the field of paleontology, from a few crazy pioneers (I could stand to learn a bit more about Baron Nopsca, scientist, swashbuckler and spy) to the high-tech...
Braiding Sweetgrass
Your strange hunger for ease should not mean a death sentence for the rest of the Creation.
Dancing Wu Li Masters:
An Anthropologist on Mars:
A Brief History of Time
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