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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 164,636 ratings
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
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4.21 avg rating — 495,986 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 438,407 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.14 avg rating — 834,154 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.33 avg rating — 41,059 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.04 avg rating — 256,168 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 198,869 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 475,927 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 12,101 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 — 78,533 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 250,740 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.09 avg rating — 104,541 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.28 avg rating — 83,726 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale
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4.15 avg rating — 29,105 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 — 29,729 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.86 avg rating — 61,428 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 58,376 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.12 avg rating — 41,703 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 218,562 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 — 58,116 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.83 avg rating — 20,449 ratings
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New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars
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4.71 avg rating — 101 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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4.35 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,438 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 45,700 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 41,586 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,992 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 82,914 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.06 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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3.99 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
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The Higgs Boson for Bozos
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Ship Fever: Stories
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4.04 avg rating — 4,500 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,453 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.83 avg rating — 2,059 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 — 10,276 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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4.11 avg rating — 9,896 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.16 avg rating — 33,980 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.28 avg rating — 54,343 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 125,153 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 11,032 ratings
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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3.96 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Tectonochronology: Methods, Theories, and Cases
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
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4.02 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.02 avg rating — 3,807 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.04 avg rating — 14,516 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,340,674 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 61,627 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
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3.87 avg rating — 7,315 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 6,197 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.13 avg rating — 202,241 ratings
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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4.12 avg rating — 24,520 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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4.16 avg rating — 3,173 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.14 avg rating — 10,516 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 119,247 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 69,445 ratings
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Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe
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4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
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4.10 avg rating — 690 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 64,257 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,601 ratings
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Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
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3.99 avg rating — 3,176 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.02 avg rating — 33,581 ratings
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
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4.05 avg rating — 11,857 ratings
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Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
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3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.15 avg rating — 203,288 ratings
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
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4.13 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
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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 — 14,637 ratings
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Encounters with the Archdruid
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4.23 avg rating — 6,863 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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3.81 avg rating — 5,562 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.41 avg rating — 25,341 ratings
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
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4.24 avg rating — 4,880 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.76 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
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4.10 avg rating — 4,522 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers the Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
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4.14 avg rating — 9,363 ratings
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
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4.13 avg rating — 1,002 ratings
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Fluir (Flow): Una psicologia de la felicidad
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4.10 avg rating — 92,212 ratings
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The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
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4.24 avg rating — 937 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.07 avg rating — 22,135 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.21 avg rating — 6,288 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.21 avg rating — 943 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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4.07 avg rating — 33,738 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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3.61 avg rating — 3,655 ratings
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
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4.11 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them
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3.83 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 211,590 ratings
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Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code
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3.93 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,728 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,401 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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4.02 avg rating — 7,643 ratings
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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
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4.06 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
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3.80 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 43,578 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 117,165 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 126,112 ratings
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould
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4.28 avg rating — 484 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 — 7,704 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 18,643 ratings
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
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4.11 avg rating — 2,292 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 21,250 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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4.14 avg rating — 3,690 ratings
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