Luigi Civalleri

10 books

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Civilizations Rise and Fall #2

Jared Diamond

608 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

391 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

464 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

480 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
Quantum Physics for Poets by Christopher T. Hill, Leon M. Lederman

Quantum Physics for Poets

Christopher T. Hill, Leon M. Lederman

338 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

587 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Kate Summerscale

360 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history mystery true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Sam Kean

464 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare

The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea

Philip Hoare

453 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction nature science reflective slow-paced