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Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
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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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Sea Wonders: The Octopus, the Cuttlefish, and the Squid
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Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
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Carbon: The Book of Life
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Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty
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The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife
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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
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Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
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Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
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The Computers that Made the World
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The Cybernetic Society: How Humans and Machines Will Shape the Future Together
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Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
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The Great Holocene Transformation: What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
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Age of Doubt: Building Trust in a World of Misinformation
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Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon
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Simply Physics
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Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century, Revised and Expanded: Technical Innovations and Their Lasting Impact
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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
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The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
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Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
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White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus-in Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World
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The Trouble with Ancient DNA: Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science
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A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever
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Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
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Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky
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Crystals, Rocks, and Gemstones: Exploring Earth's Treasures
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Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
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The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
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Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
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A Wilding Year: Bringing Life Back to the Land
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The Moon: From Imagination to Exploration
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The North Pole: The History of an Obsession
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The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story
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Forty Ways to Know a Star: Using Stars to Understand Astronomy
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The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science
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The Universe in Your Pocket: Ten Cosmic Maps That Explain Everything
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Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything in Between
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Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
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