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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.09 avg rating — 664,743 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.05 avg rating — 196,695 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33,373 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.84 avg rating — 55,711 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.59 avg rating — 36,881 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.92 avg rating — 45,266 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.94 avg rating — 55,403 ratings
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Silent Spring
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41,884 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.96 avg rating — 66,802 ratings
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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3.93 avg rating — 5,211 ratings
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
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4.14 avg rating — 4,330 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 97,051 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.97 avg rating — 62,613 ratings
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
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3.80 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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4.07 avg rating — 10,604 ratings
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The Wisdom Of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels And The Business Of Aids
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4.13 avg rating — 2,880 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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3.98 avg rating — 6,845 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.14 avg rating — 61,104 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.20 avg rating — 10,313 ratings
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Mapping the Mind
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4.10 avg rating — 3,328 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.57 avg rating — 59,864 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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3.95 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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4.06 avg rating — 4,329 ratings
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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3.92 avg rating — 3,007 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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3.95 avg rating — 20,723 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.72 avg rating — 309 ratings
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The Planets
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3.63 avg rating — 4,324 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History
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3.90 avg rating — 6,065 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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3.79 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.97 avg rating — 5,753 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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3.98 avg rating — 3,168 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.57 avg rating — 2,836 ratings
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Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--And the Myths and Realities of Dieting
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3.83 avg rating — 989 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.90 avg rating — 26,443 ratings
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
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3.61 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.91 avg rating — 20,330 ratings
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
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4.07 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths
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3.61 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
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3.76 avg rating — 1,734 ratings
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The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions
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3.81 avg rating — 280 ratings
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My Sister Rosalind Franklin
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4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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3.80 avg rating — 66,231 ratings
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Allergy Guide: Alternative & Conventional Solutions
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Secret Life of Sleep
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3.43 avg rating — 392 ratings
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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3.79 avg rating — 2,197 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
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4.11 avg rating — 2,053 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
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4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
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4.13 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Only the Longest Threads
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4.07 avg rating — 74 ratings
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30 Days
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4.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Blachart
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4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Theories Of Interval Arithmetic: Mathematical Foundations And Applications
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.30 avg rating — 13,908 ratings
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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4.03 avg rating — 3,669 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.23 avg rating — 19,371 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
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3.94 avg rating — 1,060 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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4.15 avg rating — 2,098 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
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4.16 avg rating — 949 ratings
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Vampire Chimeras
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
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3.72 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society
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4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
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3.57 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Thyroid Connection: Why You Feel Tired, Brain-Fogged, and Overweight - and How to Get Your Life Back
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3.69 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.92 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
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3.87 avg rating — 498 ratings
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Be the Rainbow * Bridge Heaven and Earth: : How-to Manual for Integrating Alternative and Evidence-Based Medicine
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery and Arsenic
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3.57 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
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3.83 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
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4.10 avg rating — 2,977 ratings
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How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner
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3.72 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
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4.12 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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3.92 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer
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4.22 avg rating — 12,482 ratings
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The End of Everything
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4.26 avg rating — 7,020 ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
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4.16 avg rating — 7,281 ratings
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The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmas
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3.90 avg rating — 807 ratings
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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4.14 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
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4.08 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
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3.58 avg rating — 4,875 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 6,893 ratings
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The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
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3.94 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.82 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Alan M. Turing
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3.34 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
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3.77 avg rating — 297 ratings
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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
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3.75 avg rating — 2,319 ratings
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The Nature of Economies
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3.80 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Condition Critical
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4.28 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
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3.57 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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How Animals Grieve
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3.68 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The Female Brain
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3.84 avg rating — 12,303 ratings
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Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
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3.90 avg rating — 1,044 ratings
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Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
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4.12 avg rating — 797 ratings
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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
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3.84 avg rating — 682 ratings
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The Monkey Wars
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4.15 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
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3.56 avg rating — 583 ratings
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
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3.95 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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3.89 avg rating — 22,189 ratings
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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3.94 avg rating — 10,719 ratings
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Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
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3.72 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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3.87 avg rating — 1,995 ratings
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