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Listopia > Anil's votes on the list Curious About Everything (48 Books)
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
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"Life of Plants"
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The Genius of Birds
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"Life of Birds"
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Mecca: The Sacred City
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"History of Muslim Religion"
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Travelling In, Travelling Out : A Book of Unexpected Journeys
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"Travel Writing"
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The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati
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"History of India"
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Mao: the unknown story
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"History of Modern China"
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
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"How Brain Works"
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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"Self Help"
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The Chinese Opium Wars
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"History - Untold"
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Best Evidence
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"There are always other possibilities"
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The Lost Years of Jesus: Documentary Evidence of Jesus' 17-Year Journey to the East
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The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus.
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"Nature Writing"
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Gandhi: A Life
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"Biography"
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The Holographic Universe
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"There are always other possibilities"
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and The Tenth Dimension
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"Origin of Universe"
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Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
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"Origin of Universe"
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
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"Evolution"
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Conversations with Animals: Cherished Messages and Memories as Told by an Animal Communicator
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"There are always other possibilities"
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Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
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"Spritual"
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Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurer
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"Business History"
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The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy - 1400 to the Present
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"Business History"
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Cheaper by the Dozen
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"Biography"
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A Hermit in the Himalayas: The Classic Work of Mystical Quest
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"Spiritual"
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Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
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"Spiritual"
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All Creatures Great and Small
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"Nature Writing"
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
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"Science behind mind's surprising ability to heal the body"
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Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
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"Musings about the Himalayas
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Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
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"Unforgettable journey through the human brain"
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JADOO
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"Wonderful travelogue from Egypt, India, Sikkim while searching for mysteries of the orient of 1950s"
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My Family and Other Animals
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"Very well written classic book for any animal lover"
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The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
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"Life of Plants. Provides revolutionary perspective about plants."
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Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death – A Physician's Cutting-Edge Study of the Mind, NDEs, and Cardiac Arrest
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"A heart surgeon's quest to find out "If the human consciousness or soul does indeed continue to exist well past the traditional marker that defines death"
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The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
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"Explains how the astonishing dialogue is taking place between the Mind and our Gut in our bodies impacting health, weight, and mood"
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Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
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"A must read book for everyone.
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Life on the Edge
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"The book communicate vividly the explosive new field of Quantum Biology, with its potentially revolutionary applications, and also offer insights into the biggest puzzle of all: what is life?"
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Incredible Journeys: Exploring the Wonders of Animal Navigation
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"Animals plainly know where they’re going. This book shows us how Dung beetles that steer by the light of the Milky Way. Ants and bees that rely on patterns of light invisible to humans. Sea turtles and moths that find their way using Earth’s magnetic field. Humpback whales that swim thousands of miles while holding a rocksteady course. Birds that can locate their nests on a tiny island after crisscrossing an ocean."
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
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"Engrossing story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet & their final catastrophic days over 150 million of years, in the context that Homo sapiens has existed for less than 200,000 years. "
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Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
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"Quantum Physics is very strange. Book offers an overview of 6 of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. All are crazy, some more crazy than others."
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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"Exploring the marvelous materials that shape our Man-Made world. Enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives. Uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world. "
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A Time For All Things
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"Comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches by Ruskin Bond"
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Extraordinary Insects
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"A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning."
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An Immense World
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"Different senses in the animal kingdom and how we all have different perceptions of the same physical world"
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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"There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can improve health dramatically."
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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
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"Excellent concise historical summary of all the physical principles in a very readable form."
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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"Great information about birds based on the most current research."
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Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
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"Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing fungi as crops and raising aphids as livestock, making vaccines and, generally, living lives that—up close—look surprisingly human."
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India And Its Native Princes
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"Amazing travelogue of British India based on travels from 1863 to 1868"
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M S Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed India
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"A powerful and moving tribute to one of India’s greatest agricultural scientists Dr M.S. Swaminathan, the visionary leader who spearheaded India’s Green Revolution and helped transform the nation from a state of food scarcity to one of self-sufficiency."
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