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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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4.32 avg rating — 50,841 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 59,737 ratings
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Gorillas in the Mist: A Remarkable Story of Thirteen Years Spent Living with the Greatest of the Great Apes
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4.15 avg rating — 21,175 ratings
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Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo
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4.29 avg rating — 887 ratings
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Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
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4.34 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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4.40 avg rating — 4,352 ratings
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
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4.04 avg rating — 24,100 ratings
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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4.50 avg rating — 34,331 ratings
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Journeys to the Other Side of the World: Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist
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4.32 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
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Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions
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4.27 avg rating — 5,886 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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4.32 avg rating — 26,091 ratings
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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
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4.16 avg rating — 4,307 ratings
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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4.46 avg rating — 20,211 ratings
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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4.10 avg rating — 13,124 ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.11 avg rating — 6,736 ratings
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
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3.71 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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4.01 avg rating — 7,565 ratings
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
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4.27 avg rating — 8,705 ratings
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Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, Book 2 of 3
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4.44 avg rating — 1,075 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,660 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,047 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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4.01 avg rating — 10,825 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
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4.13 avg rating — 2,900 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,426 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,284,111 ratings
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Uncle Tungsten
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3.98 avg rating — 7,031 ratings
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Awakenings
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4.09 avg rating — 14,146 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,478 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,951 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 56,123 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,397 ratings
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The Ants
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4.60 avg rating — 839 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
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3.87 avg rating — 7,195 ratings
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Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
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4.40 avg rating — 4,580 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.14 avg rating — 10,405 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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4.17 avg rating — 9,929 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 6,036 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,582 ratings
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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4.14 avg rating — 12,318 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 20,025 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 21,058 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,242 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.34 avg rating — 39,460 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 — 121,379 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 28,799 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,748 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,253 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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4.21 avg rating — 6,238 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,266 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.29 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
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3.84 avg rating — 3,225 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,412 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,260 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,233 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,681 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 — 56,200 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 — 9,988 ratings
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
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4.25 avg rating — 42,753 ratings
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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4.13 avg rating — 5,361 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,012 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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4.12 avg rating — 39,760 ratings
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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4.21 avg rating — 8,857 ratings
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
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4.08 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,968 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 95,117 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 422,050 ratings
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea – From Darwin's Natural Selection to Modern Genetics: A Compelling Science Guide
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4.11 avg rating — 5,185 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
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4.19 avg rating — 8,413 ratings
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On the Move: A Life
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4.03 avg rating — 21,466 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,238 ratings
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Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
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3.99 avg rating — 3,228 ratings
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
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4.04 avg rating — 11,534 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,275 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,746 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 — 245,978 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,143 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 — 56,186 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,257,687 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 52,418 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,807 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 80,282 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,937 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,312 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,246 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 — 20,973 ratings
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
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4.43 avg rating — 5,428 ratings
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Proof: The Science of Booze
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3.91 avg rating — 4,236 ratings
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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3.79 avg rating — 2,344 ratings
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
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3.57 avg rating — 2,408 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,455 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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4.24 avg rating — 4,318 ratings
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
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3.94 avg rating — 1,637 ratings
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
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4.05 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
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4.05 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
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4.07 avg rating — 1,643 ratings
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
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4.04 avg rating — 2,536 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
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4.39 avg rating — 8,862 ratings
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Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
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4.13 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
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3.88 avg rating — 4,488 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 803,703 ratings
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