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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 423,971 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 807,062 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 459,193 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 — 56,397 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,533 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 480,819 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,439 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 122,290 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,741 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 — 10,012 ratings
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
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3.95 avg rating — 6,017 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.76 avg rating — 30,390 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.26 avg rating — 218,383 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 241,104 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 193,304 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,999 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,696 ratings
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The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 29,028 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,793 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 30,037 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,544 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,143 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,135 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,364 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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3.88 avg rating — 21,912 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 28,243 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,471 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,737 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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3.59 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The Invention of Air
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3.82 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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Isaac Newton
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3.79 avg rating — 9,612 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 55,142 ratings
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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4.11 avg rating — 11,844 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,330 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.24 avg rating — 85,638 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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4.03 avg rating — 41,065 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 — 10,747 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 23,070 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,817 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.88 avg rating — 11,726 ratings
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The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
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3.99 avg rating — 546 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.09 avg rating — 28,684 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.10 avg rating — 5,887 ratings
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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3.83 avg rating — 430 ratings
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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4.21 avg rating — 8,901 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 80,651 ratings
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Connections
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4.25 avg rating — 2,495 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,473 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.19 avg rating — 45,421 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 56,808 ratings
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
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3.98 avg rating — 825 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 938 ratings
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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3.83 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
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4.18 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
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3.85 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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4.04 avg rating — 75,707 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 5,012 ratings
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Madame Curie: A Biography
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4.38 avg rating — 5,286 ratings
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
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4.22 avg rating — 2,965 ratings
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
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3.79 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 89,361 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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4.23 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Sword Fights, Book Burnings, Assorted Kings, Seditious Verse, and the Birth of the Modern World
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4.10 avg rating — 1,135 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 591,680 ratings
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The Naked Ape
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3.93 avg rating — 12,135 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,739 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,490 ratings
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Volume 1
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4.27 avg rating — 421 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 — 10,866 ratings
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
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3.96 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Volume 2
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4.25 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 202,999 ratings
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Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens
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4.11 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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3.97 avg rating — 11,810 ratings
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My Inventions
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3.91 avg rating — 12,855 ratings
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
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3.33 avg rating — 512 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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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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3.66 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma
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4.30 avg rating — 33,495 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 56,013 ratings
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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4.20 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I
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3.83 avg rating — 832 ratings
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton (Annotated & Illustrated) (Latin Edition)
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4.24 avg rating — 4,821 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,733 ratings
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IBM and the Holocaust
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4.04 avg rating — 1,879 ratings
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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4.05 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It – The 1846 History of Anesthesia, Surgical Innovation, and Greed
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3.67 avg rating — 308 ratings
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The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
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4.20 avg rating — 2,090 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,290 ratings
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FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
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4.05 avg rating — 572 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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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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3.99 avg rating — 1,532 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 159,420 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.41 avg rating — 199 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 — 3,718 ratings
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The Scientific Revolution
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3.63 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
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4.27 avg rating — 10,559 ratings
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 10,001 ratings
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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
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3.61 avg rating — 296 ratings
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
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3.83 avg rating — 673 ratings
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