A nice list from The Barnes & Noble Review:
- Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by
Joseph KanonMichael Specter - The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
- Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants by John Frederick Walker
- The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars by Christopher Cokinos
- A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana by João Magueijo
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
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Isn't Denialism by Michael Specter?
Thanks, Jeorg, yes it is. It's wrong on the B&N page, but I should have double checked.