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2018 Books for Scientists and Engineers
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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Adam Kay (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 319,594 ratings
score: 698,
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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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4.36 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 381,
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Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
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Laurie Winkless (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 293 ratings
score: 280,
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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4.06 avg rating — 3,368 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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4.01 avg rating — 7,426 ratings
score: 200,
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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4.03 avg rating — 11,756 ratings
score: 200,
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
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4.26 avg rating — 40,508 ratings
score: 195,
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Forces of Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
score: 193,
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How to Code a Human: Exploring the DNA Blueprints That Make Us Who We Are
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 185,
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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
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Elizabeth Tasker (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 493 ratings
score: 184,
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The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation (TED Books)
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3.66 avg rating — 3,071 ratings
score: 183,
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We Are All Made of Molecules
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Susin Nielsen (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 16,297 ratings
score: 181,
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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4.03 avg rating — 4,930 ratings
score: 181,
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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
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4.16 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
score: 180,
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The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
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4.25 avg rating — 5,176 ratings
score: 178,
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Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets
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4.17 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 178,
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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4.37 avg rating — 218,199 ratings
score: 176,
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Ocean of Life
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4.26 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Shackleton's Journey
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William Grill (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
score: 100,
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
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4.12 avg rating — 217 ratings
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A Chemical Passion: The Forgotten Story of Chemistry at British Independent Girls' Schools, 1820s–1930s
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Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
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Kimberly K. Arcand (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 99,
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 20,630 ratings
score: 99,
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Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom: A Guide to Unleashing Team Performance
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Paul Sean Hill (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 99,
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Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life
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3.71 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 99,
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Lab Girl
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Hope Jahren (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 71,181 ratings
score: 99,
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Geek Nation
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Angela Saini (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 368 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
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Liam Drew (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 98,
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Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World
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Les Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 98,
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The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
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Nicholas P. Money (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 352 ratings
score: 97,
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Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
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4.09 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
score: 96,
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The Order of Time
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4.13 avg rating — 37,024 ratings
score: 96,
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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4.16 avg rating — 3,770 ratings
score: 96,
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
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3.62 avg rating — 205 ratings
score: 95,
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 9,481 ratings
score: 94,
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The Science of Food: An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook
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3.78 avg rating — 199 ratings
score: 94,
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A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space
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4.18 avg rating — 548 ratings
score: 93,
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The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine
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3.74 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
score: 93,
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Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why
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Amanda Ripley (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 9,280 ratings
score: 92,
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What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky
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4.34 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
score: 91,
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Ada Lovelace: The Poet of Science
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4.03 avg rating — 830 ratings
score: 90,
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Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects
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4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 90,
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Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes
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4.41 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
score: 88,
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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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Thor Hanson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 3,033 ratings
score: 88,
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 18,766 ratings
score: 87,
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Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
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Danna Staaf (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
score: 87,
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The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World
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score: 86,
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
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3.79 avg rating — 3,833 ratings
score: 85,
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The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet
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Anthony J. Martin (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 144 ratings
score: 84,
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
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Thor Hanson (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 2,037 ratings
score: 83,
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Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
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3.89 avg rating — 214 ratings
score: 80,
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