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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.10 avg rating — 7,125 ratings
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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4.46 avg rating — 37,311 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 — 761 ratings
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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
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4.06 avg rating — 1,143 ratings
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.12 avg rating — 9,883 ratings
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A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
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4.19 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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4.37 avg rating — 8,364 ratings
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The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
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3.86 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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3.75 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
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4.12 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
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How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
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4.12 avg rating — 3,985 ratings
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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
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4.04 avg rating — 2,363 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 — 875 ratings
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The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
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3.53 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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3.93 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
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Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
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4.27 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps – Why Nature's Maligned Predators and Pollinators are Essential to Planetary Health
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3.90 avg rating — 679 ratings
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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
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3.94 avg rating — 14,411 ratings
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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
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4.11 avg rating — 1,460 ratings
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The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat
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3.69 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
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3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Lakes: Their Birth, Life, and Death
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3.85 avg rating — 182 ratings
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
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3.90 avg rating — 244 ratings
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A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman
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3.86 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
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4.10 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
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3.93 avg rating — 1,337 ratings
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
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4.09 avg rating — 1,579 ratings
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A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
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3.71 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
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4.04 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.79 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
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This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
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4.11 avg rating — 743 ratings
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
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3.89 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste
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3.79 avg rating — 239 ratings
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What Would Nature Do?: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times
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3.84 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships
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3.72 avg rating — 211 ratings
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The Living Deserts of Southern Africa
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Sweat: A History of Exercise
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3.32 avg rating — 670 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 — 3,292 ratings
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The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
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4.07 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
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4.11 avg rating — 16,061 ratings
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An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
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3.85 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
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3.89 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
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4.02 avg rating — 7,220 ratings
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Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
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3.85 avg rating — 161 ratings
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First Dawn: From the Big Bang to Our Future in Space
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
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3.84 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
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The Wuhan Lockdown
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3.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
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When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn
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4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Inequality: A Genetic History
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3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Beyond Rationality
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
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4.10 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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The Physiology of Yoga
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4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
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3.82 avg rating — 666 ratings
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Personalized Machine Learning
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
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3.74 avg rating — 654 ratings
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The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
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3.94 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
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3.45 avg rating — 746 ratings
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Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Strong Connections: Stories of Resilience from the Far Reaches of the Mobile Phone Revolution
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3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
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3.76 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Brain Power: Everything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Happy Brain
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3.84 avg rating — 287 ratings
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The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About Family, Heredity, and Scientific Discovery
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4.16 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
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3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
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4.16 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Inventive Geniuses Who Changed the World: Fifty-Three Great British Scientists and Engineers and Five Centuries of Innovation
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
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3.68 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
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4.39 avg rating — 3,626 ratings
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Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations
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3.69 avg rating — 236 ratings
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How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
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3.99 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
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3.56 avg rating — 200 ratings
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A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War
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3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
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4.10 avg rating — 175 ratings
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8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World
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3.67 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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4.31 avg rating — 2,700 ratings
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Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse: How Food Fights Hijacked Our Health and the New Science of Exercise
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3.18 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
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4.06 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
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3.91 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
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3.85 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
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3.84 avg rating — 1,509 ratings
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Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
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4.22 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It
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4.30 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One
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4.13 avg rating — 255 ratings
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A History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 229 ratings
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The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate
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4.08 avg rating — 233 ratings
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This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality
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3.55 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
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4.21 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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4.23 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
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Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
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4.04 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
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3.94 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Tunguska: A Siberian Mystery and Its Environmental Legacy
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3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Rewilding the Sea
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4.22 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart
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4.10 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The History of the Computer
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4.28 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
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4.10 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
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3.97 avg rating — 2,493 ratings
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All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
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4.44 avg rating — 3,012 ratings
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