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8 best books like The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons (Paula Guran): The Boneless Mercies, Wonders of the Solar System, The Mystery of Pain, Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe, What are the Seven Wonders of the World?: And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists—Fully Explicated, We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What everyday things tell us about the universe, The Demon in the Wood, Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe

The Boneless Mercies
AuthorApril Genevieve Tucholke
ISBN0374307067
A dark standalone YA fantasy about a band of mercenary girls in search of female glory.

Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies—girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people,...
Wonders of the Solar System
AuthorBrian Cox
ISBN0007386907
In Wonders of the Solar System – the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series – Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel and visit.

The Wonders of the Solar System – from the giant ice fountains of Enceladus...
The Mystery of Pain
AuthorDouglas Nelson
ISBN1848191529
Why does scratching an itch feel so good? Why is pain from a mosquito bite preferable to the same pain from an unidentified source?

Douglas Nelson provides the reader with a comprehensive, practical and highly accessible guide to the scientific understanding of pain. The book explores the...
Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe
AuthorBrian Clegg
ISBN1848315163
For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we didn’t have enough data to be certain.

Then the cracks began to appear....
What are the Seven Wonders of the World?: And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists—Fully Explicated
AuthorPeter D'Epiro
ISBN0385490623
Can you name... Newton's 3 laws of motion? The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse? The 5 pillars of Islam? The 6 wives of Henry VIII? The 7 kinds of plane triangles? The 8 Beatitudes? If you're not sure about the answers to the above, this is the book for you. A compendium of 101 culturally significant particulars...
We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What everyday things tell us about the universe
AuthorMarcus Chown
ISBN0571244017
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. In fact,...
The Demon in the Wood
AuthorLeigh Bardugo
“There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us.”
He understood then. The Grisha lived as shadows did, passing over the surface of the world, touching nothing, forced to change their shapes and hide in corners, driven by fear as shadows were driven by the sun. No safe place. No haven.
There...
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
AuthorJohn Hands
ISBN1468312448
Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?

John Hands’s extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge...
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