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How We Age: The Science of Longevity
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Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
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Big Liars: What Psychological Science Tells Us About Lying and How You Can Avoid Being Duped
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Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
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The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
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A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
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Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
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Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the 20th century (Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series)
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
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The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean’s Microbiome
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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past And Will Shape Our Future
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Sculptor and Destroyer: Tales of Glutamatethe Brain's Most Important Neurotransmitter
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The Man Who Mastered Gravity: A Twisted Tale of Space, Time and The Mysteries In Between
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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
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Confident Data Science: Discover the Essential Skills of Data Science (Confident Series)
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Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality
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They Flew: A History of the Impossible
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Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
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Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel – NASA's 1978 Women and Minority Pioneers Through Triumph and Tragedy
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The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
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Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
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The Curious Human Knee
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The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
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In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
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Everyday Chemicals: Understanding the Risks
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The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
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There Are (No) Stupid Questions . . . in Science
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A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
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Simulating the Cosmos: Why the Universe Looks the Way It Does
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The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus
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The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body
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Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future
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Bandwidth: How Mathematics, Physics, And Chemistry Constrain Society
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Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science
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The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival
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To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
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Mathematical Analysis: A Very Short Introduction
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The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
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Rare Trees: The Fascinating Stories of the World’s Most Threatened Species
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The Affect Lab: The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion
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Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All
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JavaScript Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
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Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
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The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos
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How Nature Keeps Time: Understanding Life Events in the Natural World
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The Globe: How the Earth Became Round
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Why Does Math Work ... If It's Not Real?
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The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk
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White Coat Ways: A History of Medical Traditions and Their Battle with Progress
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Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
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The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
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The Next Supercontinent: Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea
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Footmarks: A Journey into our restless past
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Consciousness: How Our Brains Turn Matter into Meaning
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Biodiversity Conservation: A Very Short Introduction
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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The Last Two: The Battle to Save the Northern White Rhinos
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Personality Disorders: A Short History of Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial, and Other Types
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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
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Statistics for Psychology: A Beginner′s Guide
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Why We Forget and How To Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory
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Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History
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Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change
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The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather
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Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
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A Cold Spell: A Human History of Ice
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To the Ends of the Earth: How the greatest maps were made
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
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Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
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Mighty Bad Land: A Perilous Expedition to Antarctica Reveals Clues to an Eighth Continent
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The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis
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The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World
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Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, And A World At Risk
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The History of Colour: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
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The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
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How to Do Research: and How to Be a Researcher
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Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
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Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
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The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins (The Rediscovered Series)
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HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting and Voyages of a Polar Discovery Ship
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Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
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The Deep Ocean: Life in the Abyss
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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
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Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
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Invasive Species: A Very Short Introduction
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