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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 195,289 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 585,717 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,281,202 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 130,959 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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3.85 avg rating — 20,928 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 566,007 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 — 245,616 ratings
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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
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3.93 avg rating — 16,872 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 7,246 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.33 avg rating — 1,253,917 ratings
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
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4.08 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
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4.06 avg rating — 4,246 ratings
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
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4.07 avg rating — 3,032 ratings
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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3.97 avg rating — 13,452 ratings
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
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3.94 avg rating — 5,224 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,592 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 233,357 ratings
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Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth
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2.54 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Science of Interstellar
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4.29 avg rating — 6,823 ratings
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
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4.12 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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4.27 avg rating — 8,843 ratings
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Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport
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3.88 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,626 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,386 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,429 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,224 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 — 9,979 ratings
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Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
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3.59 avg rating — 1,104 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 — 10,740 ratings
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Protocolo Bluehand: Zumbis
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3.95 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
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4.01 avg rating — 4,067 ratings
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
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3.91 avg rating — 6,384 ratings
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The Gene: The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.
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4.35 avg rating — 55,567 ratings
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241 Real-World Brain Teasers.: Guided problem-solving in Inventions, Nature, Uncommon Trivia, and Business Innovation.
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4.26 avg rating — 47 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 — 65,747 ratings
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
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3.80 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,556 ratings
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The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times
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3.99 avg rating — 817 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 95,000 ratings
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Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection
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3.91 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better : Library Edition
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3.94 avg rating — 2,487 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,207 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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4.03 avg rating — 40,931 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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4.27 avg rating — 84,132 ratings
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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
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3.77 avg rating — 6,506 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 20,958 ratings
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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4.40 avg rating — 4,352 ratings
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Born on a Blue Day
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3.84 avg rating — 24,087 ratings
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Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there
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4.02 avg rating — 5,017 ratings
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Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy
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4.33 avg rating — 105 ratings
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You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
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3.95 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 88,523 ratings
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Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves
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3.73 avg rating — 12,464 ratings
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Dim Mak
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World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
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3.46 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
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3.94 avg rating — 1,636 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 — 52,348 ratings
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Social Engineering
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3.83 avg rating — 3,895 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,392 ratings
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Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
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3.66 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,188 ratings
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
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4.06 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine
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3.84 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,329 ratings
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological & Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
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3.86 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives, and Our Lives Change Our Genes
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3.93 avg rating — 1,732 ratings
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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3.82 avg rating — 24,744 ratings
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Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself
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4.27 avg rating — 344 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,282 ratings
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