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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
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The Architect's Apprentice
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The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence
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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
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Failure: Why Science Is so Successful
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Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
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The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
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Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction
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History: A Very Short Introduction
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Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art
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Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen
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Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
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Signs of Hope: How Small Acts of Love Can Change Your World
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The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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The Historian's Toolbox: A Student's Guide to the Theory and Craft of History
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception – Brain Science for Retraining, Managing, and Planning Your Future
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
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The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
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The God Delusion
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