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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
A single-volume argument about how shared fictions let one human species run the planet.
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
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Black holes, the Big Bang and the shape of time, explained for readers without equations.
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- Adult
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- Cosmology
- Popular science
About the book
Hawking's landmark popular-science book takes on cosmology's largest questions with famously few formulas.
Why we recommend it
Still the clearest first step into modern physics for a general reader.
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Prompt: A Book Outside Your Usual Genre
The most approachable way for a fiction reader to try popular science.
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