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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
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Mark Hodder
rudy2gen
, November 12, 2017
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Burton & Swinburne! Rollicking fun in a steampunk-fantasy-mystery style that takes real people and places to unimaginable adventures. Impossible to put down, gorgeously structured, and populated by unique, entertaining, and vividly drawn characters. Each story is a different world and each as enjoyable and creative as the last. I can't get enough of this series!
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
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Sam Kean
rudy2gen
, August 26, 2017
Way more fun than a book about catastrophic brain injury and neuroscience has any right to be. Some of the stories were familiar but Kean goes deeper into the fundamental questions about what is the mind separate from the brain. Working through some marvelously morbid stories of the body's gadzookery, Kean outlines how we came to know what we know about how the brain works, how the mind compensates, and some truly odd (and occasionally hilarious) ways that our mental wiring goes haywire. Everyone who has a brain or knows someone who does needs to read this!
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The Disappearing Spoon
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Sam Kean
rudy2gen
, August 09, 2017
Linking the vast wonder of the cosmos to petty human drama, you'll re-learn everything you learned in school in the first 10 pages and then board the magic school bus to learn so much more about the things that make things things. From the (maybe) constant ways that electrons behave to nature's own nuclear reactor, and from inspired genius to dumb luck, elements are everything. And like the people studying, discovering, abusing, and creating them, they can be fickle and stubborn, party girls and wallflowers. This accessible book manages to explain everything from how neon lights and bubbles work to how we measure the age of the universe. Come learn what you never thought you could about quantum mechanics and the weird ways elements behave under weird conditions in the hands of weird humans. Also aliens! The secrets to life, the universe, and everything.
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Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons & Other True Stories of Trauma Madness Affliction & Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the H
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Sam Kean
rudy2gen
, October 21, 2014
WAY more interesting than a book about neurology and brain structure has any right to be. Told through the lens of the fascinating and weird ways that our brains go wrong, this is a look at how they work when they go right. Considering how much we don't know about the human brain, this is definitely one to get into. You won't put it down!
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