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10 best books like By Any Other Name (Spider Robinson): Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Hannibal Rising, A Fire Upon the Deep, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth, The Secret Commonwealth, The World of Ptavvs, Variable Star, Selected Stories, Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
AuthorAngela Saini
ISBN0807071706
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.

Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini...
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
AuthorRandall Munroe
ISBN0544272994
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science...
Hannibal Rising
AuthorThomas Harris
ISBN0385339410
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

He seems utterly alone, but he has brought...
A Fire Upon the Deep
AuthorVernor Vinge
ISBN0812515285
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined...
Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth
AuthorRick Remender
ISBN1632150034
It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and...
The Secret Commonwealth
AuthorPhilip Pullman
ISBN1448194512
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
The World of Ptavvs
AuthorLarry Niven
ISBN1857239970
Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his...
Variable Star
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.

When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe.

There...
Selected Stories
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0375703756
Theodore Sturgeon was a genuine American master. Praised, revered, and even envied by the likes of Bradbury, Vonnegut, and King, his short stories contain some of his best work.

In "Thunder and Roses," soon after a nuclear Holocaust, a starlet gives one final performance during which she...
Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
AuthorJulie MacIntosh
ISBN0470592702
How the King of Beers collapsed without a fight and what it means for America's place in the post-Recession world How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands with scarcely a whimper of opposition? Chalk it up to perfect timing--and some unexpected...
Randomize
AuthorAndy Weir
In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number...
A Turn in the Road
AuthorDebbie Macomber
ISBN0778329836
Six years after he had walked out on his wife and kids, Grant was freshly single again and looking to reconcile with Bethanne Hamlin. To forgive the betrayal was one thing, she did that for herself. To forget was something that she didn’t think she could ever do and she wasn’t sure if she could ever trust...
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