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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
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Europe: A Natural History
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Coves of Departure: Field Notes from the Sea of Cortez
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Nature Beyond Solitude: Notes from the Field
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A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road: New Thinking about Roads, People, and Wildlife
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
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Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
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The Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference
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Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things and How to Avoid Them
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization
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The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
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The Atlas of Disease: Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion from the Plague to the Zika Virus
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The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
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Biocode: The New Age of Genomics
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Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior
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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
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Making Sense of Weather and Climate: The Science Behind the Forecasts
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Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West
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The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online
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Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories)
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine
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Children of the Ice: Climate and Human Origins
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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What Should a Clever Moose Eat?: Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods
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Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
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The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
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Planning for Coastal Resilience: Best Practices for Calamitous Times
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
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Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
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A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
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Silent Spring
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society
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About Black Holes
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The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
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Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
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Why Elephants Have Big Ears: And Other Riddles from the Natural World
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Studies in Irish Limnology
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet?
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
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