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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 463,854 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 428,034 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 485,112 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 56,977 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 — 77,037 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.10 avg rating — 103,006 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,317 ratings
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Fermat's Last Theorem
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4.30 avg rating — 33,742 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 21,298 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 10,098 ratings
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The Emperor's New Mind
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3.91 avg rating — 7,702 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,246 ratings
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
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4.06 avg rating — 4,507 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,676 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,857 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.19 avg rating — 45,671 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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3.91 avg rating — 7,486 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,627 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 30,288 ratings
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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4.24 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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4.03 avg rating — 41,433 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,971 ratings
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
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4.11 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.09 avg rating — 28,800 ratings
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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4.13 avg rating — 5,399 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 75,165 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 94,753 ratings
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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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4.36 avg rating — 4,188 ratings
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A Beautiful Mind
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4.13 avg rating — 135,374 ratings
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Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
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3.79 avg rating — 1,411 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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4.06 avg rating — 10,073 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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4.11 avg rating — 21,032 ratings
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Why Does E=mc²?
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4.05 avg rating — 10,443 ratings
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
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4.06 avg rating — 912 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 56,753 ratings
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
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4.05 avg rating — 1,501 ratings
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Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
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4.13 avg rating — 519 ratings
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
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4.12 avg rating — 5,714 ratings
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The Wave Watcher's Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life's Undulations
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3.86 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Complexity: A Guided Tour
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4.11 avg rating — 3,583 ratings
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
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4.06 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 45,081 ratings
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The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
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3.63 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
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3.95 avg rating — 766 ratings
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Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression
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3.70 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
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3.88 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 52,225 ratings
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Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
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3.84 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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3.90 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,814 ratings
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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3.97 avg rating — 13,654 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
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4.19 avg rating — 26,202 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 249,659 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,520 ratings
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Earth: An Intimate History
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3.90 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
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4.09 avg rating — 3,772 ratings
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside and Outside a Bird's Egg
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,798 ratings
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 9,009 ratings
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Aeons: The Search for the Beginning of Time
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4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
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4.06 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
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3.80 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
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3.69 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
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3.88 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease
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3.99 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon Free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life
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4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future
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3.87 avg rating — 509 ratings
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The Making of Memory
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3.64 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Living with Risk: The Geography of Technological Hazards
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Spider Silk: Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
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4.20 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
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3.67 avg rating — 583 ratings
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The Rough Guide to The Future
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3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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What Technology Wants
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3.74 avg rating — 7,199 ratings
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A World Without Ice
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3.86 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England
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3.82 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic
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3.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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In Search of the Multiverse
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4.08 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
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4.01 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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We Need to Talk About Kelvin
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3.90 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
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3.88 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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3.79 avg rating — 2,348 ratings
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The Cosmic Tourist
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The Life of a Leaf
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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
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4.25 avg rating — 978 ratings
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Air: The Restless Shaper of the World
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Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
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4.24 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory
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3.54 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life
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3.54 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
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Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth
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3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
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3.58 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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3.87 avg rating — 2,468 ratings
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Trade Like a Pro: 20 Winning Stock Market Strategies That Will Make You Rich
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.33 avg rating — 174,633 ratings
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
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CRYPTOCURRENCY INVESTING - The Fundamental Analysis Guide: Applying Timeless Principles To Become A Successful Crypto Investor
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
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4.06 avg rating — 2,145 ratings
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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
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3.79 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
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4.14 avg rating — 5,342 ratings
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