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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 797,862 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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4.34 avg rating — 11,312 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,911 ratings
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
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4.28 avg rating — 5,252 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 418,631 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 21,735 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 452,687 ratings
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
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3.75 avg rating — 1,709 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,363 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,001 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 471,579 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 55,880 ratings
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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4.21 avg rating — 16,479 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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3.89 avg rating — 67,423 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,117 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,721 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 238,013 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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4.06 avg rating — 9,853 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,220 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 78,621 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,351 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,666 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 120,791 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,398 ratings
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
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4.41 avg rating — 3,144 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.97 avg rating — 4,528 ratings
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
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4.07 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
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3.70 avg rating — 293 ratings
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La vie revisitée: une perspective multidisciplinaire sur le but de l'existence
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4.95 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
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4.04 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
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The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
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3.72 avg rating — 201 ratings
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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
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4.20 avg rating — 2,108 ratings
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The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
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3.88 avg rating — 290 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.43 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Life Revisited: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Purpose of Existence
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4.95 avg rating — 76 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,659 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 164,235 ratings
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
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3.56 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder
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4.08 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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3.47 avg rating — 742 ratings
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The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
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3.93 avg rating — 178 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 — 34,469 ratings
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I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
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3.93 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
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4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings
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African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
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4.02 avg rating — 332 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 — 3,040 ratings
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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
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4.44 avg rating — 6,347 ratings
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
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3.64 avg rating — 2,126 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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3.99 avg rating — 419 ratings
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The Territorial Imperative
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3.88 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Doctor Dogs: How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine
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4.24 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.20 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
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4.07 avg rating — 2,067 ratings
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Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained
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4.32 avg rating — 2,058 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 — 7,567 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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4.26 avg rating — 2,390 ratings
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
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4.14 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 73,714 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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4.07 avg rating — 4,039 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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4.10 avg rating — 9,239 ratings
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Europe: A Natural History
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4.10 avg rating — 974 ratings
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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It
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4.05 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,315 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,237,997 ratings
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Coves of Departure: Field Notes from the Sea of Cortez
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
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4.40 avg rating — 972 ratings
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
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4.23 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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4.17 avg rating — 7,960 ratings
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Nature Beyond Solitude: Notes from the Field
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4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
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4.58 avg rating — 12,751 ratings
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Dignifying Science
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3.62 avg rating — 178 ratings
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A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road: New Thinking about Roads, People, and Wildlife
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
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4.01 avg rating — 1,475 ratings
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Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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3.93 avg rating — 857 ratings
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Living Dock
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4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
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4.24 avg rating — 1,548 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 — 3,916 ratings
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
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4.23 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,930 ratings
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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
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4.05 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
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4.19 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
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3.61 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 29,305 ratings
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At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
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4.08 avg rating — 2,100 ratings
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
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4.27 avg rating — 3,001 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 4,413 ratings
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
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3.66 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
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3.50 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
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4.20 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Darwin and the Beagle
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4.22 avg rating — 372 ratings
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The Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference
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4.15 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves
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3.95 avg rating — 2,171 ratings
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Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos: A Library of America Boxed Set
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4.72 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
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4.27 avg rating — 1,207 ratings
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
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3.78 avg rating — 625 ratings
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things and How to Avoid Them
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Zoo Man: Inside the Zoo Revolution
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
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3.62 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
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3.93 avg rating — 649 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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