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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
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Tim Harford (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 8,067 ratings
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Plagued: Pandemics from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond
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3.97 avg rating — 129 ratings
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
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4.24 avg rating — 3,500 ratings
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Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
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4.14 avg rating — 398 ratings
score: 44,
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The Physics of Climate Change
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4.07 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Foundations of Modern Physics
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4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 43,
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Coral Reefs: Majestic Realms under the Sea
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Natural History of Shells (Princeton Science Library Book 123)
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 41,
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Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
score: 40,
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American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
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4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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National Geographic Ocean: A Global Odyssey
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4.55 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology
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Sophia M. Connell (Editor)
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River Planet: Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis
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The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925 - 1927: The General Metaphysical Problems of Science (The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead)
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Crabs: A Global Natural History
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4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
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4.19 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Rethinking Cancer: A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)
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Bernhard Strauss (Editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 31,
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The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye
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4.54 avg rating — 456 ratings
score: 30,
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The Universe
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4.25 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 28,
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Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference
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3.74 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 27,
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Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
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4.31 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
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Lydia Kang (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 2,676 ratings
score: 25,
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Subterranea: Journey into the Depths of the Earth’s Most Extraordinary Underground Spaces
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Chris Fitch (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 132 ratings
score: 24,
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A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease
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Daniel Gibbs (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 377 ratings
score: 23,
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The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories From a Revolution in Medicine
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4.16 avg rating — 103 ratings
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How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
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4.43 avg rating — 343 ratings
score: 21,
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A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
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Mike Tranter (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 89 ratings
score: 20,
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| 229 |
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From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 18,
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Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
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Fred Scharmen (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 150 ratings
score: 17,
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Terraforming Mars
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Martin Beech (editor)
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score: 16,
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Science Wars: The Battle over Knowledge and Reality
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
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3.84 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 14,
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Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis
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Erica Cirino (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 13,
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No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World
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Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters
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Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward
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4.46 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Wetlands Conservation: Current Challenges and Future Strategies
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Sanjeev Sharma (editor)
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Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
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4.20 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
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White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
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Reece Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 129 ratings
score: 7,
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| 242 |
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From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in a Contested Region
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Robert G. Patman (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 6,
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The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization
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4.07 avg rating — 750 ratings
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