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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 235,610 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 791,178 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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4.01 avg rating — 36,624 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 59,708 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 50,840 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.41 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,272 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 59,634 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.05 avg rating — 53,702 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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3.99 avg rating — 75,374 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 112,461 ratings
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
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4.13 avg rating — 3,103 ratings
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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3.93 avg rating — 5,392 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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4.51 avg rating — 161,673 ratings
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
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4.13 avg rating — 4,469 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 71,173 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 — 2,550 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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4.08 avg rating — 11,339 ratings
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The Planets
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3.64 avg rating — 4,749 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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4.01 avg rating — 8,240 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 77,785 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.94 avg rating — 23,059 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,699 ratings
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Mapping the Mind
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4.11 avg rating — 3,369 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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3.98 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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4.05 avg rating — 5,341 ratings
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
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3.90 avg rating — 3,679 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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3.96 avg rating — 29,401 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.71 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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3.87 avg rating — 29,476 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,674 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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3.77 avg rating — 1,956 ratings
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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4.10 avg rating — 171,120 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 7,094 ratings
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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3.84 avg rating — 28,592 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,657 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 87,927 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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3.59 avg rating — 3,487 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 — 996 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.92 avg rating — 31,963 ratings
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
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3.64 avg rating — 1,960 ratings
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
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4.05 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
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3.85 avg rating — 2,428 ratings
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The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions
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3.79 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
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4.11 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
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My Sister Rosalind Franklin
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4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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3.80 avg rating — 71,715 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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3.44 avg rating — 400 ratings
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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3.79 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
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4.10 avg rating — 2,583 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
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4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
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4.16 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Only the Longest Threads
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4.11 avg rating — 80 ratings
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30 Days
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4.64 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Blachart
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4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Theories of Interval Arithmetic: Mathematical Foundations and Applications
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.31 avg rating — 21,807 ratings
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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4.03 avg rating — 4,931 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.26 avg rating — 26,865 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
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3.93 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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4.11 avg rating — 4,032 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 159,514 ratings
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CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking, The Secrets of Cooking Revealed
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4.06 avg rating — 5,624 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
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4.17 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Vampire Chimeras
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4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
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3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
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3.58 avg rating — 220 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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3.72 avg rating — 877 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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3.94 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant Now
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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4.17 avg rating — 7,849 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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3.85 avg rating — 8,081 ratings
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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
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3.88 avg rating — 525 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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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
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3.56 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
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3.85 avg rating — 1,293 ratings
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Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
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4.11 avg rating — 3,404 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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3.75 avg rating — 833 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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4.11 avg rating — 5,121 ratings
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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3.93 avg rating — 1,878 ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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4.19 avg rating — 21,102 ratings
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The End of Everything
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4.26 avg rating — 12,364 ratings
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The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion
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3.96 avg rating — 180 ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
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4.15 avg rating — 7,869 ratings
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The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
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3.89 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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4.15 avg rating — 1,582 ratings
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The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
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4.05 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
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3.60 avg rating — 5,489 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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3.91 avg rating — 7,978 ratings
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The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
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3.93 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.78 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Alan M. Turing
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3.36 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
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3.79 avg rating — 352 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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3.77 avg rating — 2,753 ratings
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The Nature of Economies
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3.80 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Condition Critical
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4.30 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
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3.58 avg rating — 3,599 ratings
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The Objectivity of My Affection
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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