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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 481,157 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 159,512 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 424,242 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 459,500 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 193,381 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.81 avg rating — 14,147 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,747 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,277 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,824 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,831 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.19 avg rating — 45,443 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.06 avg rating — 21,681 ratings
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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4.05 avg rating — 2,048 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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3.99 avg rating — 1,539 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,333 ratings
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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4.08 avg rating — 3,348 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,399 ratings
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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
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4.06 avg rating — 651 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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4.13 avg rating — 40,667 ratings
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The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World
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4.07 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations
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3.70 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
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3.91 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Ten Thousand Central Parks: A Climate-Change Parable
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
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4.25 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
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Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
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3.87 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,373 ratings
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
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4.10 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
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3.89 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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3.99 avg rating — 420 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
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4.17 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood
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3.97 avg rating — 521 ratings
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The Origin of the Universe
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3.73 avg rating — 560 ratings
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The Origin Of Humankind (Science Masters Series)
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3.95 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
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3.93 avg rating — 2,511 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 — 3,175 ratings
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In Search of the First Civilizations
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3.80 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Geology Illustrated
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4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Archaeology: A Brief Introduction
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3.74 avg rating — 205 ratings
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The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
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4.01 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The Mountains of Saint Francis : Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped our Earth
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4.13 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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3.73 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
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3.85 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology
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3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings
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In Search of the Dark Ages
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4.01 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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Earth: An Intimate History
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3.90 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
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4.22 avg rating — 897 ratings
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The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
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3.38 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 10,892 ratings
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
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4.10 avg rating — 13,308 ratings
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An Ocean of Air: a Natural History of the Atmosphere [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2007] Gabrielle Walker
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4.16 avg rating — 578 ratings
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The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
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3.96 avg rating — 1,226 ratings
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
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3.81 avg rating — 6,854 ratings
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
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4.10 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Natural Experiments of History
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3.60 avg rating — 489 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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4.16 avg rating — 3,128 ratings
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The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
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4.17 avg rating — 6 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 — 3,719 ratings
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The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
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3.71 avg rating — 129 ratings
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30,000 Leagues Undersea: True Tales of a Submariner and Deep Submergence Pilot
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4.32 avg rating — 71 ratings
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A Short History of the World
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3.86 avg rating — 1,661 ratings
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Stephen Hawking On Trial: Confronting the Big Bang
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3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Secrets of the Moon: Myth and Mysticism, History and Science
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4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
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4.11 avg rating — 6,872 ratings
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Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
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3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life: The Search for Our Cosmic Roots
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.07 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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To Mars With Love
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Life on Earth
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4.46 avg rating — 5,153 ratings
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Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology
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3.83 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O
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Children of the Ice: Climate and Human Origins
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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In Search of Ancient Oregon: A Geological and Natural History
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4.25 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Traces Of The Past: Unraveling The Secrets Of Archaeology Through Chemistry (Contemporary Issues in Museum Cultures
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3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars
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4.16 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
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4.11 avg rating — 1,600 ratings
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A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice
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3.96 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
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3.86 avg rating — 981 ratings
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
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3.68 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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4.08 avg rating — 208,219 ratings
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Evolve or Die
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4.06 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
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4.06 avg rating — 904 ratings
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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4.02 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
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3.98 avg rating — 65 ratings
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After The Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 B.C.
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4.08 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
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4.13 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History
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3.80 avg rating — 250 ratings
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God and the New Physics
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3.94 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology
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3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
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The Mediterranean was a Desert: A Voyage of the Glomar Challenger
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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4.06 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Information and the Origin of Life
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Life of the Cosmos
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4.20 avg rating — 947 ratings
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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3.98 avg rating — 788 ratings
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The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything
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3.84 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life
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3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Cosmic Company: The Search for Life in the Universe
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Life in the Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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3.78 avg rating — 344 ratings
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