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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.11 avg rating — 6,499 ratings
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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4.46 avg rating — 34,113 ratings
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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3.89 avg rating — 717 ratings
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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
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4.07 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.12 avg rating — 9,249 ratings
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A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
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4.19 avg rating — 4,106 ratings
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
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4.37 avg rating — 7,488 ratings
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The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
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3.86 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
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How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
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4.14 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
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4.02 avg rating — 1,960 ratings
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The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
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4.04 avg rating — 799 ratings
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The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
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3.53 avg rating — 1,480 ratings
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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3.93 avg rating — 3,883 ratings
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Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
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4.28 avg rating — 609 ratings
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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3.75 avg rating — 2,150 ratings
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
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4.11 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars
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3.88 avg rating — 218 ratings
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A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman
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3.86 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
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3.90 avg rating — 631 ratings
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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
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3.95 avg rating — 13,583 ratings
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
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3.89 avg rating — 737 ratings
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The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
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4.10 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships
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3.73 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Living Deserts of Southern Africa
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Sweat: A History of Exercise
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3.33 avg rating — 635 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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4.05 avg rating — 3,020 ratings
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The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
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4.05 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
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4.11 avg rating — 14,977 ratings
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An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
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3.87 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
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3.91 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
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4.03 avg rating — 6,901 ratings
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Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
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3.86 avg rating — 147 ratings
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First Dawn: From the Big Bang to Our Future in Space
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
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3.84 avg rating — 2,044 ratings
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The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat
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3.70 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Wuhan Lockdown
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3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings
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When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn
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4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Inequality: A Genetic History
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3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Beyond Rationality
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago
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4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
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4.10 avg rating — 3,435 ratings
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The Physiology of Yoga
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4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
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3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
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3.82 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Personalized Machine Learning
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
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3.76 avg rating — 633 ratings
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The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
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3.96 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Lakes: Their Birth, Life, and Death
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3.88 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
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3.45 avg rating — 711 ratings
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Relativity Made Relatively Easy Volume 2: General Relativity and Cosmology
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
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3.80 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Brain Power: Everything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Happy Brain
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3.86 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Carriers: What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About Family, Heredity, and Scientific Discovery
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4.23 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
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3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
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4.16 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet
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4.09 avg rating — 295 ratings
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
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3.67 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
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4.40 avg rating — 3,431 ratings
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The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
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3.93 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,570 ratings
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
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4.09 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
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A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
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3.70 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
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4.07 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity
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4.06 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
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3.84 avg rating — 1,423 ratings
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Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
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4.23 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.80 avg rating — 3,212 ratings
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This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
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4.11 avg rating — 700 ratings
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A History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 221 ratings
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This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality
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3.55 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
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4.05 avg rating — 1,819 ratings
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
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3.94 avg rating — 707 ratings
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The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart
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4.12 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste
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3.79 avg rating — 231 ratings
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The History of the Computer
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4.33 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
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4.11 avg rating — 5,659 ratings
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Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past
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3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
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3.98 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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All That Moves Us: A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, His Young Patients, and Their Stories of Grace and Resilience
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4.44 avg rating — 2,856 ratings
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A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are
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3.94 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
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3.90 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity
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3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
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4.26 avg rating — 151 ratings
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What Would Nature Do?: A Guide for Our Uncertain Times
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3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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4.09 avg rating — 13,860 ratings
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A Global History of The Earlier Palaeolithic
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
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4.06 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
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4.23 avg rating — 3,750 ratings
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How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science
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3.84 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Her Hidden Genius
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3.93 avg rating — 17,005 ratings
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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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3.89 avg rating — 3,207 ratings
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The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else
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4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.29 avg rating — 14,674 ratings
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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3.99 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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Future Stories: A user's guide to the future
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3.62 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
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4.16 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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The Deep Ocean: Life in the Abyss
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4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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What My Bones Know
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4.50 avg rating — 71,751 ratings
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A Materials Science Guide to Superconductors: and How to Make Them Super
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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