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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
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Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
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T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
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Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals
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In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms
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3.85 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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3.72 avg rating — 6,415 ratings
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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
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3.93 avg rating — 242 ratings
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GENE'S EYE VIEW OF EVOLUTION CLOTH
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A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
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Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
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Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
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The Brilliant Abyss
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The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint
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Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
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How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond
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The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
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CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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The Secret World of Weather
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The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds
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The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart
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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
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Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
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Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
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The Nation of Plants
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The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
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Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future
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The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond
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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
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Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
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Darker Angels of Our Nature, The: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
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Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection
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You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
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How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
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The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking
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Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong – and How to Make Sense of It
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Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide
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The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
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Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
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The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams
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When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
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Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing
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World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
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Astrobiology: An Introduction
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Do Statins Work?: The Battle for Perfect Evidence-Based Medicine
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Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
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Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind
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Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures
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The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
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Irreversible Noise (Urbanomic / Mono)
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Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
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When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
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Math Without Numbers
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
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Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
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The Boy Who Wasn't Short: Human Stories from the Revolution in Genetic Medicine
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Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual Selection
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Living Matter: Seeking New Physics in the Biological World
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
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