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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 31,721 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 40,397 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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4.40 avg rating — 281,868 ratings
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Heart: A History
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4.09 avg rating — 3,552 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 89,032 ratings
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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 80,793 ratings
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Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
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3.89 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 64,912 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,285,739 ratings
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
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4.23 avg rating — 5,215 ratings
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The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
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3.89 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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4.05 avg rating — 12,501 ratings
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
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4.35 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
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3.79 avg rating — 3,910 ratings
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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3.82 avg rating — 4,124 ratings
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
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3.93 avg rating — 2,477 ratings
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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4.23 avg rating — 4,175 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 29,699 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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4.27 avg rating — 84,348 ratings
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
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4.11 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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4.02 avg rating — 4,929 ratings
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Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
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3.95 avg rating — 822 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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3.96 avg rating — 30,235 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 217,812 ratings
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
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3.66 avg rating — 6,014 ratings
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
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3.75 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.05 avg rating — 13,546 ratings
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 29,919 ratings
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The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media
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3.45 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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4.26 avg rating — 2,443 ratings
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Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
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4.29 avg rating — 793 ratings
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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3.95 avg rating — 21,356 ratings
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The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage
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4.02 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
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4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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4.14 avg rating — 12,337 ratings
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
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3.72 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
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3.46 avg rating — 601 ratings
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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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4.17 avg rating — 1,299 ratings
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What If?: Randall Munroe | Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions | Summary & Takeaways
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4.22 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
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4.41 avg rating — 7,467 ratings
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Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World
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4.06 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Ledger: Poems
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4.02 avg rating — 656 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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4.32 avg rating — 51,031 ratings
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Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior
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4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
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4.13 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
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4.01 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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Clean: The New Science of Skin
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Black Hole Survival Guide
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The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
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3.45 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
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3.70 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Ocean: Waves for All (Our universe, #4)
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4.09 avg rating — 619 ratings
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
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Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
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4.17 avg rating — 2,473 ratings
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
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3.62 avg rating — 974 ratings
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Real Life
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The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
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3.58 avg rating — 2,740 ratings
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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
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3.68 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
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3.98 avg rating — 593 ratings
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Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
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3.79 avg rating — 4,761 ratings
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Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
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4.11 avg rating — 160 ratings
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On the Move: A Life
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4.03 avg rating — 21,486 ratings
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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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3.90 avg rating — 566 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,347 ratings
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
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4.33 avg rating — 9,090 ratings
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Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the Natural World
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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3.94 avg rating — 6,585 ratings
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Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
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The River of Consciousness
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The Blue Whale (Volume 1) (Endangered Animals, 1)
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
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The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
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4.05 avg rating — 2,134 ratings
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
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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 — 59,912 ratings
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
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4.01 avg rating — 2,155 ratings
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Plucked: A History of Hair Removal (Biopolitics, 8)
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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4.01 avg rating — 3,011 ratings
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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American Wolf
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
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Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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Teeth: Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
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3.89 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
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Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
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4.08 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
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The Polar Bear (Volume 2) (Endangered Animals, 2)
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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Time Travel: A History
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Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self
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