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I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right
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The Madness Pill: One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
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The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
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Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters
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The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
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This Is Life: How the Science of the Cosmos Explains What We Are
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The Secrets of our DNA: How Genetics has Changed the World
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Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp
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Trinity: An Illustrated History of the World's First Atomic Test
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Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong
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The Devil’s Garden: The World's Most Sinister Plants and Fungi
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4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
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4.08 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Nuclear Weapons: An International History
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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
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3.99 avg rating — 9,247 ratings
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On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick
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4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
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How to Know Your Self: The Art & Science of Discovering Who You Really Are
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3.95 avg rating — 148 ratings
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A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women
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4.41 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Bitter Honey: Big Ag’s Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save Them
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On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy
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Birds: The Goldfinch, Birds, Art, and Us
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Eat the Planet Well: How to fix our toxic food system – one meal at a time
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Truth Addict: How to Ask Questions, Test Ideas, and Get Answers in a Data-Driven World
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In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure
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4.36 avg rating — 388 ratings
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The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity
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4.28 avg rating — 484 ratings
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The Intertidal Zone: Life on the Edge
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Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold
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The Elements of Life: How Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium Nourish Us and Threaten the Planet
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The Fox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved
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Language Rules!: Secrets of a Uniquely Human Ability
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Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World
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The Sargasso Sea: Exploring Myths and Mysteries
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Every Living Creature: How Xenotransplantation Will Change Our Lives
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Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human
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Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World
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The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
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The Animals of Ancient Egypt: Then and Now
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Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore
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Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation
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A History of Science in 21 Women (History in 21 Women)
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Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
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The Age of Microbes: A Blueprint for a Habitable Earth
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Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology
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99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them
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Hidden Wonders: New Species and Rediscoveries in an Age of Extinction
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Life Revisited: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Purpose of Existence
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The Hidden Lives of Lab Animals: A Vet's Vision for a More Humane Future
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The Vanishing Earth: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction
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Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up
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Grizzled: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals
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Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest, and Weirdest Makes Math
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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
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In Botanical Time: The Extraordinary Lifespans of the World's Oldest Living Plants
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The Powerful Primate: How Homo Sapiens Came to Dominate the Planet
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Connecting the Dots: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science
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Virtuous Nonsense: Progressive America’s Epistemic Crisis
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From These Lands: Sharing Our Natural and Cultural Heritage
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The Ascent of Mammals: How DNA Discoveries are Rewriting Our Story
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Master Sun’s Problem: A Mathematical Epic 2,000 Years in the Making
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Romp!: A Journey Through the Natural History of Otters and Why They Matter
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The Secret World of Twilight: A Natural History of Dusk and Dawn
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Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works
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3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Search for Water: A Human History of Thirst
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The Black Book. The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Inventions
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Grass: A Human History
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Atlas of Botany: An Exploration of Plants Across Time and Around the World
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Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate
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Shell Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Molluscan Lives
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A Is for Amoeba: The Story of Life in a Single Cell
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Mega Builds: Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World
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Amazon: A River's Journey From the Andes to the Atlantic
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Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction
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Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry
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The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard
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Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
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The Evolution of Cetacean Societies: Uncovering the Social Complexity of Whales and Dolphins
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The Age of Alchemy: WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry
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Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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Surviving Climate and Chaos: What Dinosaurs Teach Us About Climate Change and Resilience (Earth History, Dinosaur Extinction)
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Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
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Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
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Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Our Lives and Why We Should Care
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The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
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The Elegance of Ferns: Portrait of a Botanical Marvel (Marvels of Nature, 3)
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Mexican Gray Wolves, Courts, and the Border Wall: Lobo Returns from Limbo
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Where the Earth Meets the Sky: A Story of Penguins, People, and Place in Antarctica
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Dinner with an Astronaut: Serving Space Stories: Past, Present and Future
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Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
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Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist
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Every Living Creature: How Xenotransplantation Will Change Our Lives
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The Art of Science: A Visual Story of Scientific Discovery
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In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment
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Pests & Other Friends: Discover the True Nature of the Most Maligned Animals
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The Enigmatic Echidna: Secrets of the World's Most Curious Creature
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The Hidden Nations of Animals: A Grand Tour of Earth's Wild Civilizations
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Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
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Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe
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The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
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Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life's Greatest Collaborations
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