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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

Nicholas Wade

314 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

360 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1763 by Albertus Seba

Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1763

Albertus Seba

543 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction art nature science adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by Susan Aberth, Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

Leonora Carrington, Susan Aberth

160 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction art biography informative reflective slow-paced
Alchimie & Mystique. Le Musée Hermétique by Alexander Roob

Alchimie & Mystique. Le Musée Hermétique

Bibliotheca Universalis

Alexander Roob

576 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction art adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being by Rafael E. Nunez, George Lakoff

Where Mathematics Come from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

George Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez

512 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
How Music Works by David Byrne

How Music Works

David Byrne

345 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art history music informative slow-paced
The Primary Colors: Three Essays by Alexander Theroux
The Primary Colors: Three Essays
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Alexander Theroux

The Primary Colors: Three Essays

Alexander Theroux

288 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction art essays literary adventurous reflective medium-paced
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic by Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic

Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi

776 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction fantasy reference adventurous informative slow-paced
The Mapmakers: Revised Edition by John Noble Wilford

The Mapmakers: Revised Edition

John Noble Wilford

528 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history technology adventurous informative slow-paced