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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.10 avg rating — 7,406 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 — 38,593 ratings
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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3.88 avg rating — 775 ratings
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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
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4.07 avg rating — 1,178 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 — 10,115 ratings
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A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
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4.19 avg rating — 4,463 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 — 8,769 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 — 2,161 ratings
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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3.75 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
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4.12 avg rating — 1,768 ratings
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How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
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4.12 avg rating — 4,129 ratings
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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
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4.05 avg rating — 2,558 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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4.05 avg rating — 905 ratings
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The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
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3.52 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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3.94 avg rating — 4,405 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 — 662 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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3.89 avg rating — 700 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 — 14,710 ratings
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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
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4.10 avg rating — 1,523 ratings
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The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat
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3.70 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
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3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Lakes: Their Birth, Life, and Death
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3.84 avg rating — 187 ratings
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
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3.89 avg rating — 252 ratings
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A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman
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3.86 avg rating — 598 ratings
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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
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4.09 avg rating — 317 ratings
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The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
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3.93 avg rating — 1,401 ratings
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
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4.09 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
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3.70 avg rating — 456 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 — 227 ratings
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The Stumbling Progress of 20th Century Science: How Crises and Great Minds Have Shaped Our Modern World
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
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3.99 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Practical Linear Algebra for Data Science
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4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.79 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
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Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
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3.78 avg rating — 2,166 ratings
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This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
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4.12 avg rating — 760 ratings
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The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World
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4.13 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight
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3.83 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Science of Wind Power
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Why Do Birds Do That?: Over fifty answers to the most often asked questions
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3.73 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
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3.89 avg rating — 802 ratings
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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
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3.89 avg rating — 666 ratings
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Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste
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3.78 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity
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3.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans
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3.88 avg rating — 68 ratings
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A Global History of The Earlier Palaeolithic
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Concorde: The thrilling account of history’s most extraordinary airliner
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4.51 avg rating — 1,436 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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A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
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3.96 avg rating — 777 ratings
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How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science
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3.84 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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3.88 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
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The Phantom God: What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe
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3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Gödel's Theorem: A Very Short Introduction
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3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships
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3.71 avg rating — 216 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 — 673 ratings
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The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 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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4.06 avg rating — 3,399 ratings
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The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
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4.01 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
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4.11 avg rating — 16,456 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.28 avg rating — 16,330 ratings
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The Secret Science of Baby
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3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
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3.82 avg rating — 84 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 — 7,385 ratings
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Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
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3.84 avg rating — 167 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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Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
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3.65 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
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3.84 avg rating — 2,212 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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4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Inequality: A Genetic History
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3.82 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Beyond Rationality
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Future Stories: A user's guide to the future
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3.62 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
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4.09 avg rating — 3,553 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 — 692 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 — 664 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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3.93 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Language and the Rise of the Algorithm
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3.70 avg rating — 10 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 — 759 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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3.78 avg rating — 72 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 — 306 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 — 79 ratings
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The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
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3.49 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
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4.15 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology
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A Materials Science Guide to Superconductors: and How to Make Them Super
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4.29 avg rating — 7 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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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
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3.69 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
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4.39 avg rating — 3,708 ratings
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Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations
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3.68 avg rating — 242 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 — 1,653 ratings
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Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: Interviews with Leading Thinkers on Julian Jaynes’s Theory
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4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
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3.57 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
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3.94 avg rating — 384 ratings
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