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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 894,464 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 454,519 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 860,987 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 158,198 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 420,227 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 — 102,033 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 56,008 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 79,938 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 134,194 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 620,359 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,599 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 130,765 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 — 41,639 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,349 ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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3.47 avg rating — 746 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 22,470 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 852,216 ratings
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The Grand Design
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4.06 avg rating — 77,231 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 — 55,994 ratings
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How We Decide
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3.85 avg rating — 41,519 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.10 avg rating — 41,406 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,431 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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3.95 avg rating — 125,117 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 21,038 ratings
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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3.98 avg rating — 99,063 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 59,271 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,607 ratings
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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4.21 avg rating — 30,751 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,593 ratings
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The Silicon Jungle
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3.57 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,520 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,155 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,760 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.19 avg rating — 65,449 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,664 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart
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3.86 avg rating — 36,091 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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4.21 avg rating — 22,641 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,306 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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4.08 avg rating — 71,036 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,176 ratings
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Differential Clinical Significance of Medical Information
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
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4.23 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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3.98 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,246,486 ratings
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The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
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3.96 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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3.97 avg rating — 52,291 ratings
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
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3.75 avg rating — 6,160 ratings
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
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4.15 avg rating — 10,894 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 238,948 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma
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4.30 avg rating — 33,304 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 866,023 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.08 avg rating — 472,874 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,857 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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4.27 avg rating — 20,514 ratings
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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3.99 avg rating — 15,490 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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4.02 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
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4.06 avg rating — 4,241 ratings
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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3.82 avg rating — 24,737 ratings
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The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2)
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3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Existential Rationalism: Handling Hume's Fork
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4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Survival of the Prettiest : The Science of Beauty
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3.78 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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3.91 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
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3.78 avg rating — 7,140 ratings
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Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
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3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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4.36 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science
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4.13 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The New World of Mr Tompkins
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4.09 avg rating — 476 ratings
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
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3.97 avg rating — 3,513 ratings
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
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3.74 avg rating — 4,093 ratings
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
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4.10 avg rating — 13,254 ratings
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Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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3.77 avg rating — 1,971 ratings
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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3.91 avg rating — 14,899 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,359 ratings
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Reveals About Who We Really Are
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3.91 avg rating — 42,470 ratings
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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
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3.84 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
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4.26 avg rating — 9,432 ratings
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Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons
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3.44 avg rating — 236 ratings
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
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3.93 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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4.01 avg rating — 11,479 ratings
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The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
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3.56 avg rating — 407 ratings
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A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
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3.62 avg rating — 224 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 — 3,700 ratings
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Ayahuasca - The Sacred Psychedelic!!
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4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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4.17 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Ecological Planet: An Introduction to Earth's Major Ecosystems
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4.16 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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4.25 avg rating — 3,726 ratings
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Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
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4.11 avg rating — 1,586 ratings
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Embodiment, How Animals and Humans Make Sense of Things: The Dawn of Art, Ethics, Science, Politics, and Religion
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Ultimate Memory Magic: The Transformative Program for Sharper Memory, Mental Clarity, and Greater Focus . . . at Any Age!
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3.64 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Ultimate Memory Manual: Learn How to Remember the Things You Used to Forget (Life Level Up Book 6)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Ultimate Memory Manual: Learn How to Remember the Things You Used to Forget With the Memory Palace Technique
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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MIND: PSYCHOLOGY--The Untold Story...
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains
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4.16 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Deep-Level Influencing - A Successful Career: Learning from Serial Killers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers
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3.92 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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3.99 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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Great science books imo