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Recommended by 3 notable people, including Bill Gates and Patrick Collison
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A New York Times BestsellerAn eyeopening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science Why is glass seethrough What makes elastic stretchy Why does a paper clip bend Why does any material look and behave the way it does These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and Nonfiction.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
“Read this book and you’ll never look at a pencil or razor the same way.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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