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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 454,945 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 420,583 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 476,802 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,545 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 121,676 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,431 ratings
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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4.06 avg rating — 7,610 ratings
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Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity
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4.42 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Homo Deus: Een kleine geschiedenis van de toekomst
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4.18 avg rating — 286,061 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 94,851 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,531 ratings
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The Last Days of the Incas
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4.21 avg rating — 7,133 ratings
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
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3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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3.99 avg rating — 3,933 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 — 56,022 ratings
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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4.11 avg rating — 5,914 ratings
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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4.04 avg rating — 3,985 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,447 ratings
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The History of Money
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3.92 avg rating — 1,729 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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4.19 avg rating — 25,949 ratings
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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4.29 avg rating — 6,072 ratings
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Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
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4.07 avg rating — 989 ratings
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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4.13 avg rating — 4,239 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,920 ratings
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Children of the Ice: Climate and Human Origins
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
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4.28 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 40,008 ratings
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The Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 3,574 ratings
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
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4.12 avg rating — 6,584 ratings
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
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4.12 avg rating — 589 ratings
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The Little Book of Big History
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3.70 avg rating — 488 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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4.05 avg rating — 3,082 ratings
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Big History and the Future of Humanity
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,249 ratings
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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.31 avg rating — 10,109 ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
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4.03 avg rating — 12,003 ratings
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A Little History of the World
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4.10 avg rating — 31,684 ratings
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
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3.93 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Germs, Seeds and Animals:
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3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.08 avg rating — 1,742 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 25,021 ratings
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
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3.97 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
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3.91 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Energy and Civilization: A History
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4.09 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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3.97 avg rating — 31,611 ratings
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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
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4.32 avg rating — 74 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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4.46 avg rating — 20,902 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
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3.69 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
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3.97 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
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Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
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4.08 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
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3.72 avg rating — 671 ratings
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The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
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4.20 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
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3.86 avg rating — 998 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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3.99 avg rating — 420 ratings
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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4.15 avg rating — 176,702 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
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4.36 avg rating — 1,753 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.13 avg rating — 7,688 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,045 ratings
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I
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4.33 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
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4.23 avg rating — 3,941 ratings
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Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830
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A World History
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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4.24 avg rating — 3,160 ratings
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
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The First North Americans: An Archaeological Journey
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
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Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
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3.96 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Energy: A Human History
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3.74 avg rating — 1,896 ratings
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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
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3.93 avg rating — 2,500 ratings
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
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3.53 avg rating — 257 ratings
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People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
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Why We Run: A Natural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,935 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History
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Cosmos
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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4.18 avg rating — 10,169 ratings
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
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3.77 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
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4.13 avg rating — 2,899 ratings
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The Oceans: A Deep History
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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4.10 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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4.08 avg rating — 3,344 ratings
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The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
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4.13 avg rating — 4,806 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe: And Our Place Within It
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The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
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Leaving the Wild: The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Horses
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Trees: Their Natural History
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