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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
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4.08 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
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3.74 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
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Why Dinosaurs Matter (TED Books)
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3.94 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Betaball: How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History
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3.52 avg rating — 650 ratings
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
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3.94 avg rating — 5,979 ratings
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Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
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3.60 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
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4.25 avg rating — 4,741 ratings
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Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
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4.38 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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4.02 avg rating — 27,063 ratings
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Samaritans
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3.78 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The Science of Game of Thrones: A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones
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3.54 avg rating — 447 ratings
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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
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3.53 avg rating — 788 ratings
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
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4.07 avg rating — 1,024 ratings
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
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4.08 avg rating — 1,457 ratings
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Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
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3.91 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
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Awkward: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome
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3.56 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara
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3.83 avg rating — 2,877 ratings
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Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
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3.51 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,632 ratings
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
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3.70 avg rating — 3,915 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,985 ratings
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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (TED Books)
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3.70 avg rating — 5,583 ratings
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
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3.71 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
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3.93 avg rating — 700 ratings
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
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3.41 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story
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2.94 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
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3.71 avg rating — 761 ratings
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
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3.57 avg rating — 6,558 ratings
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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4.02 avg rating — 5,092 ratings
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Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
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4.19 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate
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3.95 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
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4.04 avg rating — 1,335 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures With the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals
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4.33 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
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3.61 avg rating — 3,894 ratings
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Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
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3.81 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
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4.15 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between
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4.01 avg rating — 538 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 60,679 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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4.18 avg rating — 10,312 ratings
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A Planet of Viruses
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4.06 avg rating — 5,119 ratings
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
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3.65 avg rating — 6,065 ratings
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The Prodigy's Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent
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3.76 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
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4.32 avg rating — 25,890 ratings
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Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
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4.01 avg rating — 741 ratings
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
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3.79 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time
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3.73 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain
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3.50 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
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4.17 avg rating — 17,430 ratings
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Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both
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3.84 avg rating — 809 ratings
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What's It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There
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3.99 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain
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4.09 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things
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4.17 avg rating — 398 ratings
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
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3.93 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,989 ratings
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
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4.09 avg rating — 2,370 ratings
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On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind
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3.67 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
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3.94 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
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4.03 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
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3.86 avg rating — 3,197 ratings
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The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths About What You Eat
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3.45 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 900,795 ratings
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Proof: The Science of Booze
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3.92 avg rating — 4,246 ratings
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Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again
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3.77 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
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Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
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3.74 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever
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3.95 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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4.17 avg rating — 922 ratings
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Wild Moms
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3.95 avg rating — 58 ratings
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AIQ: How People and Machines are Smarter Together
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4.14 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
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3.58 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
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3.85 avg rating — 12,921 ratings
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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4.37 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
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Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
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4.09 avg rating — 1,603 ratings
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The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor
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4.02 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
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3.90 avg rating — 567 ratings
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The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
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3.85 avg rating — 327 ratings
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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4.28 avg rating — 3,908 ratings
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Reasoning: The Neuroscience of How We Think
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
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3.71 avg rating — 3,367 ratings
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Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
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4.12 avg rating — 20,103 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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4.05 avg rating — 9,730 ratings
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