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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Bill Bryson
    4.13 avg rating — 35,470 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking
    3.98 avg rating — 24,452 ratings
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Cosmos
by
Carl Sagan
    4.33 avg rating — 8,267 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
    4.17 avg rating — 10,724 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by
Brian Greene
    4.03 avg rating — 9,702 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Carl Sagan
    4.34 avg rating — 6,955 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
    3.95 avg rating — 40,716 ratings
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
by
Richard Preston
    3.96 avg rating — 15,178 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by
Douglas R. Hofstadter
    4.30 avg rating — 7,139 ratings
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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
    3.92 avg rating — 29,598 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
    4.21 avg rating — 3,101 ratings
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The Origin of Species
by
Charles Darwin
    3.88 avg rating — 9,607 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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Stephen Hawking
    3.97 avg rating — 4,682 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by
Steven D. Levitt
    3.74 avg rating — 167,630 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
    4.09 avg rating — 4,667 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
by
James Gleick
    3.94 avg rating — 3,725 ratings
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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Richard P. Feynman
    4.56 avg rating — 924 ratings
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The World Without Us
by
Alan Weisman
    3.76 avg rating — 9,737 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
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Richard P. Feynman
    4.28 avg rating — 12,354 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
    4.19 avg rating — 5,404 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
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Simon Singh
    4.12 avg rating — 2,948 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Steven Pinker
    4.05 avg rating — 3,180 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
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Brian Greene
    4.10 avg rating — 4,090 ratings
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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Richard P. Feynman
    4.12 avg rating — 2,145 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Lewis Thomas
    4.15 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
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Genome
by
Matt Ridley
    4.00 avg rating — 2,932 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
by
Stephen Jay Gould
    4.19 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat & Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
    3.98 avg rating — 17,716 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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Douglas Adams
    4.30 avg rating — 4,340 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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Steven Pinker
    3.99 avg rating — 2,425 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Richard Rhodes
    4.35 avg rating — 2,146 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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Dava Sobel
    3.84 avg rating — 6,810 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by
Jared Diamond
    3.87 avg rating — 12,815 ratings
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The Tao Of Physics
by
Fritjof Capra
    3.83 avg rating — 2,630 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Carl Sagan
    4.32 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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Michio Kaku
    4.12 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
    4.04 avg rating — 1,930 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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John M. Barry
    3.83 avg rating — 3,597 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by
Neil Shubin (Goodreads Author)
    3.90 avg rating — 2,332 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Carl Sagan
    4.11 avg rating — 2,368 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
    4.09 avg rating — 50,464 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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Leonard Mlodinow
    3.72 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Sam Kean
    3.85 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
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Charles Seife
    3.85 avg rating — 1,873 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
by
Malcolm Gladwell
    3.99 avg rating — 57,247 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald A. Norman
    4.07 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Thomas S. Kuhn
    3.93 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
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The Ascent of Man
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Jacob Bronowski
    4.16 avg rating — 514 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
    3.78 avg rating — 759 ratings
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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Stephen Jay Gould
    4.08 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by
Laurie Garrett
    4.20 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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The New Way Things Work
by
David Macaulay
    4.28 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery Of All Time And Why You Need To Know About It
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Simon Singh
    4.19 avg rating — 1,207 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
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Stephen Jay Gould
    4.12 avg rating — 635 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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Stephen Jay Gould
    4.07 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
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Natalie Angier
    4.19 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
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Sophie's World
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Jostein Gaarder
    3.71 avg rating — 32,815 ratings
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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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Steven Johnson
    3.86 avg rating — 5,384 ratings
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
    3.94 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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Jonathan Weiner
    4.10 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
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Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics
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Gary Zukav
    3.92 avg rating — 2,169 ratings
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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Carl Sagan
    4.30 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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Carl Sagan
    3.98 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
by
James Burke
    4.25 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
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Philip C. Plait
    4.19 avg rating — 685 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
    4.05 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
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Kip S. Thorne
    4.16 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Blink
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Malcolm Gladwell
    3.72 avg rating — 70,996 ratings
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Robert Wright
    4.02 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Man and his Symbols
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C.G. Jung
    4.11 avg rating — 3,147 ratings
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Bad Science
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Ben Goldacre
    4.12 avg rating — 2,697 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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Albert Einstein
    4.07 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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Darrell Huff
    3.78 avg rating — 745 ratings
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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Richard P. Feynman
    4.17 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
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Al Gore
    3.75 avg rating — 2,795 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution & Future of the Human Animal
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Jared Diamond
    3.97 avg rating — 3,228 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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Edward Osborne Wilson
    4.16 avg rating — 652 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Simon Singh
    4.21 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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The Emperor's New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
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Roger Penrose
    3.65 avg rating — 797 ratings
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
by
James D. Watson
    3.68 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
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The Grand Design
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Stephen Hawking
    3.78 avg rating — 4,119 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
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Gina Kolata
    3.74 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
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Aldo Leopold
    4.18 avg rating — 4,158 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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Timothy Ferris (Goodreads Author)
    4.23 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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Dava Sobel
    3.58 avg rating — 5,589 ratings
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One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
by
George Gamow
    4.11 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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John McPhee
    4.37 avg rating — 633 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
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Michio Kaku
    4.03 avg rating — 2,696 ratings
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The Character of Physical Law
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Richard P. Feynman
    4.20 avg rating — 434 ratings
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The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
by
Lee Smolin
    3.86 avg rating — 795 ratings
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
by
Richard P. Feynman
    4.12 avg rating — 587 ratings
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by
Natalie Angier
    3.62 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
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Francis S. Collins
    3.69 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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Mr Tompkins in Wonderland or Stories of c, G, and h
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George Gamow
    3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Karl R. Popper
    3.93 avg rating — 481 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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David Quammen
    4.42 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by
Michael Pollan
    4.02 avg rating — 12,995 ratings
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Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun [With CD]
by
David L. Goodstein
    4.24 avg rating — 119 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by
Steven D. Levitt
    3.76 avg rating — 14,829 ratings
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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
by
Ian Stewart
    3.55 avg rating — 123 ratings
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