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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 419,300 ratings
score: 696,
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 59,209 ratings
score: 578,
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6 people voted
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Milestones of Science and Technology: Making the Modern World
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Peter Morris (Editor)
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 497,
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5 people voted
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Feed
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3.55 avg rating — 67,815 ratings
score: 398,
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4 people voted
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The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
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T. Gilling (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 394,
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4 people voted
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 238,412 ratings
score: 376,
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4 people voted
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The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness
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Adrian Mendoza (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
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Joel Best (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 824 ratings
score: 293,
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3 people voted
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Mosque
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4.13 avg rating — 499 ratings
score: 284,
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3 people voted
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God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
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3.94 avg rating — 8,101 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 53,050 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats
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3.21 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
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3.92 avg rating — 3,350 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
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Rose George (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,625 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home
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3.84 avg rating — 695 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
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Bill McKibben (Editor)
4.23 avg rating — 614 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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4.31 avg rating — 35,944 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
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4.12 avg rating — 8,989 ratings
score: 181,
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2 people voted
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The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
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4.26 avg rating — 478 ratings
score: 180,
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The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
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4.07 avg rating — 419 ratings
score: 178,
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The Genomics Age: How DNA Technology Is Transforming the Way We Live and Who We Are
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3.55 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 170,
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2 people voted
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A Brief History of Tomorrow
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3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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Felix Alba-Juez (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Barron's MCAT [with CD-ROM]
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3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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3.94 avg rating — 2,486 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
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4.10 avg rating — 41,367 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line
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4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
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James D. Miller (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 164 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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Sergio Pistoi (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream
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Julie M. Albright (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 58 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
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Felix Alba-Juez (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Green It for Sustainable Business Practice: An Iseb Foundation Guide
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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3.94 avg rating — 2,486 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
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3.86 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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4.25 avg rating — 36,986 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
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3.72 avg rating — 5,990 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Critical Technology: A Social Theory of Personal Computing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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James Barrat (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 3,899 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 20,811 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
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4.01 avg rating — 7,141 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
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Katrina Firlik (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 3,922 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
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4.16 avg rating — 427 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fast-Food-Fueled Car, and a Cross-Country Trip in Search of a Greener Future
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Greg Melville (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
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3.73 avg rating — 2,075 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Babylonians to the Maya
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3.37 avg rating — 285 ratings
score: 76,
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