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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 13,941 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 799,068 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,392 ratings
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
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4.15 avg rating — 8,381 ratings
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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3.89 avg rating — 723 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 419,405 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.44 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,966 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.80 avg rating — 18,869 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,986 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.78 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,806 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,999 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.32 avg rating — 29,374 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.10 avg rating — 5,861 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
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4.25 avg rating — 12,289 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 9,945 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 36,990 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,822 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.75 avg rating — 30,304 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,796 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 932 ratings
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Passionate Minds
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4.09 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,065 ratings
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Connections
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4.25 avg rating — 2,489 ratings
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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3.59 avg rating — 6,016 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,764 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
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3.84 avg rating — 1,367 ratings
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The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I
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3.83 avg rating — 831 ratings
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The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology (Softshell Books)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,692 ratings
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Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
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4.29 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Codex: The Origin of Thought
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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4.05 avg rating — 3,061 ratings
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The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
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4.04 avg rating — 805 ratings
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
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3.68 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
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3.85 avg rating — 892 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,276 ratings
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.70 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Travelling Brain: A Journey Through Neuroscience History
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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3.86 avg rating — 979 ratings
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Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science
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3.77 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
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3.95 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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Hedy Lamarr and a Secret Communication System
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3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,405 ratings
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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4.07 avg rating — 4,201 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
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3.70 avg rating — 305 ratings
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The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
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3.97 avg rating — 749 ratings
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
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3.97 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
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3.27 avg rating — 1,720 ratings
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The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
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4.05 avg rating — 989 ratings
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
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3.80 avg rating — 836 ratings
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
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3.54 avg rating — 1,449 ratings
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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4.15 avg rating — 9,837 ratings
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
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3.87 avg rating — 452 ratings
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
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4.01 avg rating — 744 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 10,832 ratings
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Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
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3.89 avg rating — 316 ratings
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
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4.05 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-playing Machine That Fooled the World
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3.93 avg rating — 730 ratings
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Science
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3.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Invention of Air
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3.82 avg rating — 3,264 ratings
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
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3.33 avg rating — 505 ratings
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The Republican War on Science
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3.82 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Dignifying Science
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3.62 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
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3.70 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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4.20 avg rating — 3,005 ratings
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How to Mellify a Corpse: and Other Human Stories of Ancient Science and Superstition
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3.48 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
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3.95 avg rating — 5,987 ratings
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Ancient Inventions
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4.17 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Two-Fisted Science
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3.45 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Day the Universe Changed
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4.20 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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3.89 avg rating — 2,397 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,431 ratings
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
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3.74 avg rating — 5,075 ratings
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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,646 ratings
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The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
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3.87 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
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3.84 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
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3.93 avg rating — 533 ratings
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The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
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3.32 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,523 ratings
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A Little History of Science
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3.82 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
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3.50 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
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Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
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3.97 avg rating — 74 ratings
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American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins, the Art and Science of the Violin
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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