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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 194,766 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 463,500 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 484,805 ratings
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The Satanic Bible
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3.42 avg rating — 14,988 ratings
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The Art of Happiness
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4.17 avg rating — 126,185 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 81,391 ratings
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Phenomenology of Spirit
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3.97 avg rating — 20,733 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,900 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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4.07 avg rating — 119,952 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
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4.27 avg rating — 126,701 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 388,845 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 21,185 ratings
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The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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4.36 avg rating — 17,378 ratings
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 219,689 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities
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4.19 avg rating — 7,505 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 160,776 ratings
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
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3.88 avg rating — 7,171 ratings
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Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
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4.18 avg rating — 914 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 42,039 ratings
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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3.92 avg rating — 10,092 ratings
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Sophie’s World
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3.97 avg rating — 286,094 ratings
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King Solomon's Ring
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4.13 avg rating — 4,712 ratings
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The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One
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4.02 avg rating — 2,828 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 53,040 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,378 ratings
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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4.30 avg rating — 27,876 ratings
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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4.03 avg rating — 18,979 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 — 8,347 ratings
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't
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3.90 avg rating — 2,440 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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4.31 avg rating — 36,921 ratings
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Through the Mists of Faerie: A Magical Guide to the Wisdom Teaching of the Ancient Elven
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4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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3.83 avg rating — 18,259 ratings
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
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3.78 avg rating — 5,359 ratings
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Mythology
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4.04 avg rating — 60,520 ratings
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The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning
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4.02 avg rating — 11,390 ratings
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A Little History of the World
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4.10 avg rating — 32,485 ratings
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Just Back Off and Let Us Teach: A Book for Effective Teachers and Those Who Champion Them
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4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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3.89 avg rating — 757 ratings
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When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes
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3.87 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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A History of Western Philosophy
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4.13 avg rating — 41,836 ratings
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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
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3.86 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations
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4.37 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Tao Te Ching
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4.29 avg rating — 184,835 ratings
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Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond
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3.89 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Magic on the Edge: An Anthology of Experimental Occultism
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4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America
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4.44 avg rating — 27,619 ratings
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americas Wealthy
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4.05 avg rating — 135,812 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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4.21 avg rating — 179,884 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,632 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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4.14 avg rating — 3,650 ratings
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The Elven Way: The Magical Path of the Shining Ones
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4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
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3.87 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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4.27 avg rating — 20,686 ratings
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Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 3,648 ratings
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Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain
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3.74 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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The Richest Man in Babylon
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4.23 avg rating — 246,733 ratings
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The Owner's Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind-Brain Research
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4.03 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior
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4.22 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Joy of Cooking
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4.13 avg rating — 200,240 ratings
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The Social Animal
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4.30 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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The Three Pound Universe
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4.25 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,454 ratings
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Economics in One Lesson
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4.16 avg rating — 21,840 ratings
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Do They Think You're Stupid?: 100 Ways Of Spotting Spin And Nonsense From The Media, Celebrities And Politicians
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3.59 avg rating — 722 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
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4.25 avg rating — 12,879 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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4.04 avg rating — 29,310 ratings
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The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
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3.73 avg rating — 4,964 ratings
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Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
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4.08 avg rating — 4,425 ratings
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Thinking Statistically
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3.86 avg rating — 947 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 599,513 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,675 ratings
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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquières
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3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Advice To A Young Scientist (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)
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3.77 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Conquering Babel: A Practical Guide to Learning a Language
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3.25 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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4.23 avg rating — 30,003 ratings
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Jacques the Fatalist
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3.79 avg rating — 9,855 ratings
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Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate
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3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Conversations with the Universe: How the World Speaks to Us
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3.98 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Art of Thinking Clearly
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3.85 avg rating — 41,869 ratings
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Wereldgeschiedenis van de kunst
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3.77 avg rating — 40,094 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.09 avg rating — 28,797 ratings
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So You Think You're Human: A Brief History of Humankind
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3.53 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Ideal Muslimah: The True Islamic Personality of the Muslim Woman as Defined in the Qur’an and Sunnah
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4.33 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
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How Children Learn
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4.18 avg rating — 3,589 ratings
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The Way Things Work
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4.36 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
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The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief
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4.21 avg rating — 7,022 ratings
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What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
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4.10 avg rating — 2,324 ratings
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Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
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3.98 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
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Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
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3.92 avg rating — 2,167 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
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4.06 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century
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3.94 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 10,919 ratings
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McMafia
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3.91 avg rating — 5,007 ratings
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A Dictionary of Superstitions
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4.08 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
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4.25 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
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3.74 avg rating — 660 ratings
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The Story of Mankind
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3.32 avg rating — 2,997 ratings
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Tricks of the Mind
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4.04 avg rating — 6,991 ratings
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Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are
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3.93 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
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3.60 avg rating — 3,541 ratings
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I found some really great titles in the list that i'll (hopefully) get around to reading in the coming months.
Much appreciated.