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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization

Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06

Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy

Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves

The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

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