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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 245,863 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.02 avg rating — 37,929 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.21 avg rating — 111,539 ratings
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
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4.04 avg rating — 6,167 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 41,228 ratings
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 31,357 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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4.29 avg rating — 47,926 ratings
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The Facemaker
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4.28 avg rating — 8,498 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
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4.25 avg rating — 13,122 ratings
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The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 14,686 ratings
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Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
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4.43 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 28,624 ratings
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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
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3.49 avg rating — 440 ratings
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A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
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3.97 avg rating — 4,338 ratings
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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3.99 avg rating — 5,203 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
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4.12 avg rating — 49,027 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,948 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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3.75 avg rating — 1,885 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,328 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.30 avg rating — 23,600 ratings
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Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther
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4.18 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
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3.86 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Unhinged: On Jitterbugs, Melancholics and Mad-Doctors
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
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4.06 avg rating — 34,746 ratings
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An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America
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3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Weird to Exist: Simple Comics About Complex Emotions
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4.11 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress and the Key to Human Resilience
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4.02 avg rating — 730 ratings
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Ouch!: The Weird & Wild Ways Your Body Deals with Agonizing Aches, Ferocious Fevers, Lousy Lumps, Crummy Colds, Bothersome Bites, Breaks, Bruises & Burns
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4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings
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1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Drinking Urine, Eating Worms, and Other Weird Cures, Cases, and Research from the Annals of Medicine
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2.82 avg rating — 94 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 — 2,528 ratings
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Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum
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3.67 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
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3.64 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future
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The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
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3.65 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
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Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs
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4.32 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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3.78 avg rating — 7,528 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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3.99 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them
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2.97 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours – How Blood, Phlegm, Black Bile, and Choler Shaped Western Medicine and Our Understanding of Self
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3.63 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist
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4.23 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,507 ratings
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Out Cold: A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
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3.55 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
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3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease
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4.38 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
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3.61 avg rating — 5,534 ratings
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Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
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4.15 avg rating — 3,599 ratings
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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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3.98 avg rating — 7,026 ratings
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Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
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3.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
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3.87 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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3.94 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
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Wiped: The Curious History of Toilet Paper
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4.09 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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4.07 avg rating — 4,263 ratings
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Hair: A Human History
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3.48 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Book of Accidents
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3.71 avg rating — 30,126 ratings
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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4.25 avg rating — 14,030 ratings
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
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4.01 avg rating — 10,879 ratings
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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 — 4,917 ratings
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A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
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3.87 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
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3.91 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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3.91 avg rating — 685 ratings
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For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
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3.72 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
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4.09 avg rating — 786 ratings
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The Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism
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3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
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4.12 avg rating — 3,302 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.71 avg rating — 13,211 ratings
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
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Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
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4.23 avg rating — 430 ratings
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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
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3.89 avg rating — 2,587 ratings
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
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4.52 avg rating — 847 ratings
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Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health
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3.34 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
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4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
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3.93 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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3.58 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry
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4.13 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Rex Morgan, M.D. Talks...About Your Unborn Child!
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The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
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4.43 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
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4.39 avg rating — 4,751 ratings
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Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma
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4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History
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Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series)
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
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4.12 avg rating — 2,723 ratings
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Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era
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4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement...and the Great Beyond
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3.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
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3.80 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
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3.40 avg rating — 9,387 ratings
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Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
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3.82 avg rating — 853 ratings
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Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour
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3.52 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural
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3.54 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide To Walking, Talking, and Probing Like a Real M.D.
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3.12 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
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4.21 avg rating — 4,228 ratings
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Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
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3.82 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
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The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health
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4.27 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Relax, Dammit!: A User's Guide to the Age of Anxiety
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3.70 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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What Body Part Is That?: A Wacky Guide to the Funniest, Weirdest, and Most Disgustingest Parts of Your Body
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4.01 avg rating — 286 ratings
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On Getting Off: sex and philosophy
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3.56 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales
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3.72 avg rating — 234 ratings
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The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
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3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
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