Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World
10 best books like Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World (Randy Alfred): The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives, The Vagrants, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine, The Alexandria Link, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, Traveling Light, Scavenger Hunt, Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, Murder at Merisham Lodge
| Author | Diana Reiss |
| ISBN | 0547445725 |
A memoir by the world’s leading dolphin and whale expert, revealing the extraordinary richness of these animals’ intelligence and exposing our terrible mistreatment of the smartest creatures in the sea.
For centuries, humans and dolphins have enjoyed a special relationship,...
| Author | Yiyun Li |
| ISBN | 1400063132 |
Brilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is set in China in the late 1970s, when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement, an anti-Communist groundswell designed to move China beyond the dark shadow of the Cultural Revolution toward...
| Author | Edward Lee |
| ISBN | 1579657389 |
There is a new American culinary landscape developing around us, and it’s one that chef Edward Lee is proud to represent. In a nation of immigrants who bring their own culinary backgrounds to this country, what happens one or even two generations later? What does their cuisine become? It turns into...
| Author | Steve Berry |
| ISBN | 0345485750 |
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The Emperor’s Tomb and a Cotton Malone dossier.
Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered...
| Author | Kim Todd |
| ISBN | 0151011087 |
Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Merian. An artist turned naturalist known for her botanical illustrations, she was born just sixteen years after Galileo proclaimed that the earth orbited the sun. But at the age of fifty she sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition...
| Author | Katrina Kittle |
| ISBN | 0446676942 |
A dancer turned schoolteacher, Summer is still recovering from the injury that ended her promising career in the arts. Her lover, Nicholas, fears she's depending on him to fulfill her remaining dreams and hopes. And, most ominously of all, her cherished brother, Todd, is slowly dying. In the tranquil...
| Author | Yvonne Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1614174253 |
Denver stockbroker, Finny Aletter, dreams of quitting her cutthroat job to restore historic houses, but the murder of her boss—and ex-lover—Elliot Fulton keeps her in the world of scavengers.
When a prized manuscript that once belonged to Elliot surfaces, Finny tops the list of possible...
| Author | Christie Wilcox |
| ISBN | 0374712212 |
A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry
From the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have feared them for centuries, long considering them the assassins and pariahs of the...
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
| Author | Randall Munroe |
| ISBN | 0544668251 |
In Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use...
A mansion, a title and marriage to a wealthy Lord – Lady Eveline Cartwright has it all. Unfortunately, it’s not enough to prevent her being bludgeoned to death one night in the study of Merisham Lodge, the family’s country estate in Derbyshire.
Suspicion quickly falls on her ne’er-do-well...
