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The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
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From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
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Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past And Will Shape Our Future
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The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
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