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Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light

10 best books like Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light (Bob Berman): Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, Steel Crow Saga, Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
AuthorGretchen McCulloch
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are...
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
AuthorStephen Brusatte
ISBN0062490451
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today,...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
AuthorShoshana Zuboff
ISBN1610395697
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
AuthorMark Miodownik
Líquidos. Essas substâncias mágicas que fluem pelas nossas vidas.

Da revolucionária caneta de László Biro, ao querosene de Abraham Gesner, das estradas que se reparam automaticamente, passando pelo café, pelo chá ou pela água, Miodownik usa a sua enorme capacidade de divulgador...
Steel Crow Saga
AuthorPaul Krueger
Four destinies collide in a unique fantasy world of war and wonders, where empire is won with enchanted steel and magical animal companions fight alongside their masters in battle.

A soldier with a curse
Tala lost her family to the empress’s army and has spent her life avenging them in...
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
AuthorThomas Hager
ISBN1419734407
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does...
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
AuthorAnnie Jacobsen
ISBN0316441430
The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain

Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action...
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
AuthorBill McKibben
ISBN1250178266
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.

Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
AuthorManjit Kumar
ISBN1848310358
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its heart.

For...
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
AuthorRose George
ISBN0805092633
Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization

On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World
AuthorZiya Tong
ISBN0735235562
From one of the world's most engaging science journalists, a groundbreaking and wonder-filled look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.

Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality.

We are blind in comparison to the X-rays that...
Warrior of the Altaii
AuthorRobert Jordan
ISBN1250252512
Epic fantasy legend, and author of #1 New York Times bestselling series The Wheel of Time®, Robert Jordan's never-before published novel, Warrior of the Altaii:

Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end.

The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, the fearsome fanghorn grow...
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