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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 794,558 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 — 242,636 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 854,183 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 617,850 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 848,667 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 73,466 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 850,459 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 — 8,766 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 — 55,659 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 156,395 ratings
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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4.17 avg rating — 16,810 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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4.27 avg rating — 20,417 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,059 ratings
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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4.11 avg rating — 23,098 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,022 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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4.15 avg rating — 23,529 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 — 101,604 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 — 55,566 ratings
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Uncle Tungsten
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3.98 avg rating — 6,985 ratings
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 142,493 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,024 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,170,733 ratings
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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3.85 avg rating — 104,434 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,045 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 — 7,163 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 11,667 ratings
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
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3.95 avg rating — 3,550 ratings
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Hallucinations
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3.93 avg rating — 25,008 ratings
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
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3.85 avg rating — 9,033 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 650,997 ratings
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Awakenings
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4.09 avg rating — 13,959 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 — 5,974 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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4.30 avg rating — 17,700 ratings
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How We Decide
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3.85 avg rating — 41,464 ratings
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
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4.23 avg rating — 2,005 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,234 ratings
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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
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3.49 avg rating — 5,096 ratings
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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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3.71 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
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3.94 avg rating — 11,070 ratings
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
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4.38 avg rating — 1,518 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 — 9,892 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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3.83 avg rating — 36,590 ratings
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The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math
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3.87 avg rating — 398 ratings
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The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament
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4.20 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
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Ear and Brain: How we Make Sense of Sounds
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
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3.94 avg rating — 4,672 ratings
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
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3.66 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
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3.90 avg rating — 5,698 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.13 avg rating — 40,285 ratings
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Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
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3.91 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
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3.98 avg rating — 52,925 ratings
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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3.63 avg rating — 17,846 ratings
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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3.82 avg rating — 24,690 ratings
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
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4.11 avg rating — 5,624 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 — 7,275 ratings
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Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
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3.85 avg rating — 5,454 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
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3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
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We Learn Nothing
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4.16 avg rating — 5,129 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.92 avg rating — 32,090 ratings
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The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward a New Understanding of Animals
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3.62 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Island of the Colorblind
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3.88 avg rating — 5,129 ratings
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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4.10 avg rating — 2,965 ratings
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Stress, The Aging Brain, And The Mechanisms Of Neuron Death
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4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Invention of Air
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3.82 avg rating — 3,254 ratings
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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
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4.03 avg rating — 7,631 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 7,150 ratings
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NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go
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3.20 avg rating — 521 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 — 10,707 ratings
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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3.79 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
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3.80 avg rating — 8,786 ratings
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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4.07 avg rating — 16,924 ratings
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On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas
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3.69 avg rating — 179 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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3.62 avg rating — 6,409 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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4.09 avg rating — 34,207 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
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4.19 avg rating — 25,886 ratings
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Isaac Newton
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Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition
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4.13 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
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4.07 avg rating — 3,275 ratings
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Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul
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3.77 avg rating — 926 ratings
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
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3.55 avg rating — 655 ratings
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Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
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The Red Notebook: True Stories
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3.78 avg rating — 5,727 ratings
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Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology
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3.91 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
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3.86 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
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4.01 avg rating — 3,640 ratings
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
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4.07 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
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4.04 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
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Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth
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3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Sorrow's Garden
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Objectivity
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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
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4.06 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Storms: The way of the mariner
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The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
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3.83 avg rating — 3,490 ratings
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The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
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4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Lying Awake
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
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4.14 avg rating — 9,154 ratings
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Bristlecone Book: A Natural History of the World's Oldest Trees
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4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
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4.13 avg rating — 578 ratings
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