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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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3.99 avg rating — 1,906 ratings
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How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
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3.60 avg rating — 886 ratings
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Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life
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4.11 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
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4.01 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
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4.09 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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4.29 avg rating — 226,722 ratings
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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3.86 avg rating — 2,551 ratings
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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4.15 avg rating — 56,782 ratings
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Secrets of the Octopus
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4.39 avg rating — 2,315 ratings
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
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4.02 avg rating — 67,649 ratings
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Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
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4.17 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War
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3.88 avg rating — 477 ratings
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The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
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4.15 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
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3.93 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
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4.20 avg rating — 3,281 ratings
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Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
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3.79 avg rating — 800 ratings
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
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3.99 avg rating — 661 ratings
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The Light Eaters
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4.25 avg rating — 12,511 ratings
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Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth: How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World
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3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,558 ratings
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The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
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4.06 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
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4.06 avg rating — 706 ratings
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The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
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3.72 avg rating — 294 ratings
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What If Fungi Win?
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4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
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3.97 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Art of Mingling: Fun and Proven Techniques for Socializing in Person
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3.43 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Power of Hormones: The new science of how hormones shape every aspect of our lives
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3.77 avg rating — 721 ratings
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The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492
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3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
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4.22 avg rating — 8,723 ratings
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The Lambing Season: Stories of Life on an Irish Family Farm
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3.62 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life
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3.55 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future
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3.91 avg rating — 643 ratings
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Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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4.26 avg rating — 78,815 ratings
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Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19
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2.85 avg rating — 616 ratings
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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
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4.46 avg rating — 6,136 ratings
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.50 avg rating — 24,945 ratings
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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
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4.29 avg rating — 17,327 ratings
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Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
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3.59 avg rating — 482 ratings
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Seek Higher Ground: The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding Crisis
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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4.22 avg rating — 924 ratings
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It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health
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4.11 avg rating — 11,337 ratings
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The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
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3.99 avg rating — 187 ratings
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How to be a Bad Botanist
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3.94 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Into the Blue: Adventures on the Wild Atlantic Edge
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Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
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4.15 avg rating — 3,725 ratings
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Coyotes Among Us: Secrets of the City’s Top Predator
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4.45 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
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4.02 avg rating — 3,070 ratings
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Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch: How Healing a Southwest Oasis Holds Promise for Our Endangered Land
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
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3.79 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
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3.90 avg rating — 5,112 ratings
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Why Ecosystems Matter: Preserving the Key to Our Survival
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time
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3.65 avg rating — 346 ratings
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
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4.02 avg rating — 18,726 ratings
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When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
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3.86 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
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3.91 avg rating — 3,429 ratings
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Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
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4.21 avg rating — 709 ratings
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Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
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4.02 avg rating — 865 ratings
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
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3.75 avg rating — 3,176 ratings
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Birds and Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
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3.92 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation: Implications and Policies
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Possible: Ways To Net Zero
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors
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3.79 avg rating — 738 ratings
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
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3.66 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Science v. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD
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4.12 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Birding to Change the World: An Uplifting Memoir that Explores what Birds Can Teach us about Life
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4.32 avg rating — 2,398 ratings
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Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland
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Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself
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3.72 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It
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4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk
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3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
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4.28 avg rating — 931 ratings
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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4.19 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
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3.66 avg rating — 6,061 ratings
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The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
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4.06 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
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3.25 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens
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4.08 avg rating — 351 ratings
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The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea
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3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Wasps of the World: A Guide to Every Family
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The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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4.17 avg rating — 5,296 ratings
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The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal
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3.77 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games
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3.60 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria
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3.65 avg rating — 763 ratings
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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
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3.91 avg rating — 18,756 ratings
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Clay: A Human History
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4.09 avg rating — 133 ratings
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How the Rose Got Its Thorns: And Other Botanical Stories
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Metamorphosis: How Insects Are Changing Our World
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Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation
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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
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3.87 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
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Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
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4.10 avg rating — 2,204 ratings
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Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe
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3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the High-Tech Economy
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4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History
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4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Carbon: A Biography
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2.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Power of Prions: The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Other Diseases
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4.10 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
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The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality
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