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From the Erzgebirge to Potosi: A History of Geology and Mining Since the 1500's
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4.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 427,167 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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4.17 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.33 avg rating — 30,200 ratings
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
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4.13 avg rating — 3,172 ratings
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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4.08 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.10 avg rating — 7,034 ratings
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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4.05 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 80,261 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,406 ratings
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Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
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4.24 avg rating — 855 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
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4.17 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.05 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 228,067 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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4.28 avg rating — 12,020 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 29,230 ratings
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 21,539 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.07 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 41,605 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,308 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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4.18 avg rating — 4,191 ratings
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The Ends of the World
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4.29 avg rating — 6,203 ratings
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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4.24 avg rating — 3,219 ratings
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Grand Canyon
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4.34 avg rating — 2,703 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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3.87 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
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3.88 avg rating — 2,960 ratings
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
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4.01 avg rating — 3,971 ratings
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Earth: An Intimate History
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3.90 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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Rising from the Plains (Annals of the Former World, 3)
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4.24 avg rating — 1,989 ratings
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Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,316 ratings
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Coal: A Human History
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3.73 avg rating — 2,280 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,027 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.81 avg rating — 14,213 ratings
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
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3.92 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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A Rock Is Lively
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4.28 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
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When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
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4.10 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,538 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,282 ratings
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In Suspect Terrain (Annals of the Former World, 2)
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4.12 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
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Coming Into the Country
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4.21 avg rating — 7,678 ratings
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
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4.13 avg rating — 1,786 ratings
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Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
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3.89 avg rating — 1,937 ratings
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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4.11 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
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3.70 avg rating — 714 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 122,871 ratings
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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3.86 avg rating — 982 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,292 ratings
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The Control of Nature
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4.26 avg rating — 4,996 ratings
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
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3.91 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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Annals of the Former World (#1-4)
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4.37 avg rating — 4,397 ratings
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 341,320 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 77,616 ratings
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Island on Fire
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3.86 avg rating — 863 ratings
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Earthquake Storms
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3.94 avg rating — 565 ratings
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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3.90 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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3.98 avg rating — 799 ratings
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Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America
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4.18 avg rating — 759 ratings
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
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4.03 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
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3.89 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
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3.72 avg rating — 4,151 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 4,702 ratings
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The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth (The Magic School Bus #2)
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4.23 avg rating — 4,286 ratings
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Old Rock [is not boring]
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4.23 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth
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4.05 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Rocks and Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
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4.13 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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4.24 avg rating — 762 ratings
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