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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
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Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics
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Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
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Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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Merlin Sheldrake (Goodreads Author)
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
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John H. Halpern (Goodreads Author)
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The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
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Sharon Moalem (Goodreads Author)
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High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected
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The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ
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The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World
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Aliya Whiteley (Goodreads Author)
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
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Lydia Denworth (Goodreads Author)
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
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M.R. O'Connor (Goodreads Author)
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
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Adam Kucharski (Goodreads Author)
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
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Jonathan C. Slaght (Goodreads Author)
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
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What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
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Ruth Kassinger (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
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Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Goodreads Author)
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Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
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Gina Rae La Cerva (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 466 ratings
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Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders
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Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
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Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates
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Alex Berenson (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 3,730 ratings
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The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life
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Journey 2024: Redefining Enterprise Purpose
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How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
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Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
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The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
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Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
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The Case Against Masks: Ten Reasons Why Mask Use Should be Limited
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The Longevity Code: Slow Down the Aging Process and Live Well for Longer―Secrets from the Leading Edge of Science
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The FEAR-19 Pandemic: How lies, damn lies, and fake statistics created a pandemic of fear that spread faster and created more damage than COVID-19 ever could have by itself.
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Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health (Volume 74) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe
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Climate Courage: How Americans Are Bridging the Political Divide and Tackling Climate Change--A Bipartisan Citizens Guide
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
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Ben Westhoff (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,297 ratings
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Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures
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Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 2: Update and Examination of Lockdowns as a Strategy
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Alex Berenson (Goodreads Author)
4.68 avg rating — 1,290 ratings
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Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 3: Masks
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Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in science, art and history
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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
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Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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The Organs of Sense
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Adam Ehrlich Sachs (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It
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America's Alligator: A Popular History of Our Most Celebrated Reptile
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Doug Alderson (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
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Emily Anthes (Goodreads Author)
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
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Ruth Kassinger (Goodreads Author)
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The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
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12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
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Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People
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Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
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The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth
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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange and Impossibly Small World of Particle Physics
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Mapping Humanity: How Modern Genetics Is Changing Criminal Justice, Personalized Medicine, and Our Identities
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The Secret Language of Cells: What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself
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Naturalist
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Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine
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The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
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The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
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What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color
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Soldiers of Science: An Interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Alan Alda (Interviewer)
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How Zoologists Organize Things: The Art of Classification
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Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
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The Secret Galaxy
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Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness
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Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity: Words That Changed the World
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Weed Science: Cannabis Controversies and Challenges
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Godfrey Pearlson (Goodreads Author)
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Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named
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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
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The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity: A Tale of the Genius Ramanujan
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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History
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Finding Our Niche: Toward A Restorative Human Ecology
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Philip A. Loring (Goodreads Author)
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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
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Kermit Pattison (Goodreads Author)
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removed: "The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Remakes Itself in the Second Half of Life" as that will be published in September 2021 and this is the 2020 list.
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