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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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4.31 avg rating — 310,194 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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4.27 avg rating — 43,145 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.28 avg rating — 16,724 ratings
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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4.13 avg rating — 124,705 ratings
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The End of Everything
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4.25 avg rating — 13,967 ratings
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When We Cease to Understand the World
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4.09 avg rating — 72,278 ratings
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Project Hail Mary
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4.51 avg rating — 1,920,767 ratings
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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
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4.29 avg rating — 105,730 ratings
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What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 18,676 ratings
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 32,324 ratings
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Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
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4.57 avg rating — 14,375 ratings
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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4.11 avg rating — 51,929 ratings
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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4.37 avg rating — 9,140 ratings
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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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4.04 avg rating — 6,579 ratings
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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4.24 avg rating — 19,002 ratings
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Lessons in Chemistry
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4.28 avg rating — 1,919,358 ratings
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A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
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4.49 avg rating — 36,746 ratings
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
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4.11 avg rating — 16,777 ratings
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The Light Eaters
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4.25 avg rating — 12,434 ratings
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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4.09 avg rating — 13,659 ratings
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Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
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4.08 avg rating — 11,109 ratings
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
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3.87 avg rating — 35,612 ratings
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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4.20 avg rating — 18,442 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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4.09 avg rating — 4,389 ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.10 avg rating — 7,647 ratings
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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3.99 avg rating — 9,310 ratings
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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4.15 avg rating — 56,541 ratings
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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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4.23 avg rating — 9,335 ratings
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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
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3.94 avg rating — 15,015 ratings
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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3.87 avg rating — 100,720 ratings
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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4.34 avg rating — 197,147 ratings
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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3.94 avg rating — 13,363 ratings
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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
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4.05 avg rating — 14,770 ratings
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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4.08 avg rating — 15,331 ratings
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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4.05 avg rating — 7,185 ratings
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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
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4.12 avg rating — 9,297 ratings
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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4.32 avg rating — 43,952 ratings
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
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4.01 avg rating — 11,382 ratings
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.12 avg rating — 10,371 ratings
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Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
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4.07 avg rating — 7,008 ratings
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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4.15 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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4.19 avg rating — 29,336 ratings
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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
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4.10 avg rating — 5,579 ratings
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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4.29 avg rating — 225,796 ratings
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
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4.21 avg rating — 85,870 ratings
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.50 avg rating — 24,825 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.53 avg rating — 154,854 ratings
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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
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4.46 avg rating — 6,092 ratings
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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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3.88 avg rating — 3,582 ratings
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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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4.18 avg rating — 16,995 ratings
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The Love Hypothesis
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4.09 avg rating — 2,216,867 ratings
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
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4.35 avg rating — 59,005 ratings
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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
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4.13 avg rating — 7,532 ratings
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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3.93 avg rating — 4,565 ratings
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Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain
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4.04 avg rating — 9,075 ratings
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White Holes
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4.09 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
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4.30 avg rating — 10,944 ratings
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
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4.21 avg rating — 3,234 ratings
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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4.48 avg rating — 11,151 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 5,058 ratings
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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4.04 avg rating — 4,093 ratings
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
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4.14 avg rating — 7,894 ratings
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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3.94 avg rating — 2,398 ratings
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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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3.89 avg rating — 6,862 ratings
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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4.29 avg rating — 8,622 ratings
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The Maniac
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4.33 avg rating — 32,023 ratings
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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4.38 avg rating — 47,657 ratings
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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4.12 avg rating — 158,820 ratings
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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
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3.99 avg rating — 9,445 ratings
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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3.80 avg rating — 17,597 ratings
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Love on the Brain
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3.90 avg rating — 705,178 ratings
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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
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3.96 avg rating — 6,240 ratings
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Orbital
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3.47 avg rating — 174,408 ratings
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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
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4.05 avg rating — 7,184 ratings
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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
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4.20 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Love, Theoretically
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4.08 avg rating — 756,857 ratings
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The Precipice
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3.94 avg rating — 5,539 ratings
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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
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4.03 avg rating — 2,851 ratings
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
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3.91 avg rating — 18,643 ratings
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Atmosphere
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4.31 avg rating — 1,078,122 ratings
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What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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4.40 avg rating — 116,815 ratings
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
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3.95 avg rating — 25,579 ratings
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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3.90 avg rating — 10,067 ratings
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
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4.11 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
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4.02 avg rating — 17,047 ratings
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Biological War: A Scenario
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4.16 avg rating — 8,954 ratings
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
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4.40 avg rating — 3,457 ratings
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
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4.02 avg rating — 18,651 ratings
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
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3.90 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
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4.02 avg rating — 67,454 ratings
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