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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
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My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdős
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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"Looking at the color across languages"
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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"How language evolve with examples from hebrew!"
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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How the Mind Works
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Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
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3.82 avg rating — 814 ratings
"Biography of the most importatnt person in the history of medicine."
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
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Supercooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour {Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed}
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
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The Colossal Book of Mathematics
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Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
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Euler: The Master of Us All
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e: the Story of a Number
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
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A History of π
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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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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Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Gödel's Proof
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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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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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 29,577 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture – Free Will, the Human Genome, and Behavior
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The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox
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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
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The Music of the Primes
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How to Prove It: A Structured Approach
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
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The Undercover Economist
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Competing on Analytics
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
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4.21 avg rating — 607 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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A New Kind of Science
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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Silent Spring
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells
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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
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I Am a Strange Loop
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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Babbitt
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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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Irrational Exuberance
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Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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