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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,203 ratings — published 1988
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,342,041 ratings — published 2011
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,676 ratings — published 2003
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,957 ratings — published 1976
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,749 ratings — published 1980
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 202,351 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,428 ratings — published 2011
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,784 ratings — published 2017
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,322 ratings — published 1985
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 476,185 ratings — published 1997
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,571 ratings — published 1999
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 153 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,648 ratings — published 2015
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,506 ratings — published 2017
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,710 ratings — published 2008
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,775 ratings — published 1995
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 224,837 ratings — published 1985
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,240 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,887 ratings — published 2010
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 57,216 ratings — published 2009
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,340 ratings — published 2010
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,644 ratings — published 1986
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,489 ratings — published 1987
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,658 ratings — published 2016
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 92,148 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 914,075 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,765 ratings — published 2010
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,325 ratings — published 2008
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,369 ratings — published 1979
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,778 ratings — published 2004
Fermat's Enigma (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 34,365 ratings — published 1997
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,014 ratings — published 2014
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 34,006 ratings — published 2016
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,745 ratings — published 1999
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,936 ratings — published 2019
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 58,409 ratings — published 2010
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 895,365 ratings — published 2008
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as popular-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 633,080 ratings — published 2005
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,743 ratings — published 1999
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,971 ratings — published 2003
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 208,316 ratings — published 2018
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 125,217 ratings — published 1859
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,439 ratings — published 2001
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,263 ratings — published 1994
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,105 ratings — published 2004
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 870,551 ratings — published 2000
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,141 ratings — published 2017
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,978 ratings — published 2014
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,082 ratings — published 1994
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 183,385 ratings — published 2018
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as popular-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,420 ratings — published 2020
“Until relatively recently, and with a very few exceptions, cannibalism would have been regarded as anything but normal. As a result, until the last two decades of the 20th century, few scientists spent time studying a topic thought to have little, if any, biological significance. Basically, the party line was that cannibalism, when it did occur, was either the result of starvation to the stresses related to captive conditions. It was as simple as that. Or so we thought.”
― Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
― Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
“If he could do what he did -- and I'll show you what he did -- who else is doing what in the hospitals and laboratories that we may one day look to for our lives?”
― The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
― The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
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