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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,662 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 803,207 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 — 37,126 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,213 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,564 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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4.41 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,672 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,257 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,800 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 — 76,237 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 113,543 ratings
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
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4.13 avg rating — 3,121 ratings
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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3.93 avg rating — 5,406 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.51 avg rating — 171,777 ratings
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
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4.13 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,818 ratings
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
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3.80 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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4.08 avg rating — 11,402 ratings
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The Planets
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3.64 avg rating — 4,803 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,359 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,189 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,379 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 10,742 ratings
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Mapping the Mind
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4.10 avg rating — 3,376 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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3.98 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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4.05 avg rating — 5,430 ratings
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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3.90 avg rating — 3,741 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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3.96 avg rating — 30,455 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.72 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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3.87 avg rating — 29,999 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,725 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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3.77 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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4.09 avg rating — 175,281 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 7,253 ratings
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 29,791 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,706 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 89,042 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 — 3,534 ratings
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Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
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3.83 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.92 avg rating — 32,477 ratings
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
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3.64 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
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4.05 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
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3.85 avg rating — 2,503 ratings
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The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions
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3.79 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA – A Powerful Biography of the Woman Airbrushed Out of Scientific History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,600 ratings
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My Sister Rosalind Franklin
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4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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3.79 avg rating — 72,729 ratings
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Allergy Guide: Alternative & Conventional Solutions
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Secret Life of Sleep
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3.43 avg rating — 400 ratings
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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3.79 avg rating — 2,282 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
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4.10 avg rating — 2,609 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
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4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
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4.16 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Only the Longest Threads
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4.14 avg rating — 79 ratings
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30 Days
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4.64 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Blachart
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4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Theories of Interval Arithmetic: Mathematical Foundations and Applications
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.30 avg rating — 22,569 ratings
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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4.02 avg rating — 5,041 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 27,665 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
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3.93 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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4.10 avg rating — 4,135 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 167,452 ratings
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CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking, The Secrets of Cooking Revealed
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4.06 avg rating — 5,623 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
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4.17 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
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Vampire Chimeras
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The Dead Do Talk
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Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society
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4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
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3.58 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Thyroid Connection: Why You Feel Tired, Brain-Fogged, and Overweight - and How to Get Your Life Back
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3.72 avg rating — 894 ratings
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.94 avg rating — 2,166 ratings
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The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant Now
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4.48 avg rating — 25 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 — 8,036 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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3.85 avg rating — 8,214 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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Be the Rainbow * Bridge Heaven and Earth:: How-to Manual for Integrating Alternative and Evidence-Based Medicine
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
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3.57 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
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3.85 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
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4.11 avg rating — 3,441 ratings
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How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner
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3.75 avg rating — 841 ratings
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
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4.11 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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3.93 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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4.19 avg rating — 22,188 ratings
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The End of Everything
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4.26 avg rating — 12,818 ratings
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The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion
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3.95 avg rating — 185 ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
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4.15 avg rating — 7,911 ratings
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The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
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3.88 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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4.15 avg rating — 1,595 ratings
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The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
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4.05 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
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3.60 avg rating — 5,525 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,128 ratings
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The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
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3.94 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.78 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Alan M. Turing
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3.36 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
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3.80 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
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3.77 avg rating — 2,792 ratings
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The Nature of Economies
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3.80 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Condition Critical
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
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3.57 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
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The Objectivity of My Affection
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