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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 814,055 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 378,916 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 719,456 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.38 avg rating — 138,034 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 361,526 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.08 avg rating — 94,700 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 52,423 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.28 avg rating — 69,161 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 564,392 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,012 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 109,807 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.94 avg rating — 22,013 ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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3.62 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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4.01 avg rating — 21,137 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 118,062 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 37,884 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 781,305 ratings
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The Grand Design
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4.06 avg rating — 71,172 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 47,887 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.09 avg rating — 37,802 ratings
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Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 19,487 ratings
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How We Decide
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3.83 avg rating — 40,047 ratings
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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3.95 avg rating — 112,734 ratings
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How the Mind Works
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3.99 avg rating — 19,893 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 53,575 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.01 avg rating — 43,691 ratings
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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4.21 avg rating — 25,682 ratings
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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3.98 avg rating — 88,273 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 26,081 ratings
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The Silicon Jungle
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3.58 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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4.16 avg rating — 27,203 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 41,690 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.21 avg rating — 49,828 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 26,629 ratings
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You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
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3.86 avg rating — 34,074 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
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4.21 avg rating — 20,264 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 16,339 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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4.08 avg rating — 59,785 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension
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4.14 avg rating — 22,155 ratings
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Differential Clinical Significance of Medical Information
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
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4.19 avg rating — 62 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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3.97 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
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3.75 avg rating — 5,836 ratings
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
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4.15 avg rating — 10,221 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma
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4.28 avg rating — 29,259 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 56,066 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 605,593 ratings
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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4.26 avg rating — 18,892 ratings
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Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
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4.06 avg rating — 4,077 ratings
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The Wisdom of Crowds
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3.81 avg rating — 23,607 ratings
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The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2)
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3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Existential Rationalism: Handling Hume's Fork
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4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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4.02 avg rating — 323 ratings
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
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3.78 avg rating — 7,129 ratings
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Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science
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4.08 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The New World of Mr Tompkins
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4.12 avg rating — 421 ratings
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
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3.97 avg rating — 3,498 ratings
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
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3.74 avg rating — 3,789 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 — 12,053 ratings
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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3.97 avg rating — 48,472 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 203,328 ratings
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Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
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3.78 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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4.07 avg rating — 401,898 ratings
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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3.91 avg rating — 14,243 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.29 avg rating — 25,620 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 47,423 ratings
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Reveals About Who We Really Are
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3.91 avg rating — 38,077 ratings
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Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,238 ratings
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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
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3.85 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
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4.25 avg rating — 8,217 ratings
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Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons
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3.44 avg rating — 232 ratings
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
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3.91 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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4.02 avg rating — 10,978 ratings
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The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?
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3.56 avg rating — 395 ratings
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A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
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3.57 avg rating — 215 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 — 3,260 ratings
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Ayahuasca - The Sacred Psychedelic!!
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4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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4.18 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Ecological Planet: An Introduction to Earth's Major Ecosystems
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4.21 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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4.25 avg rating — 3,103 ratings
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Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society
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4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
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4.11 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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Embodiment, How Animals and Humans Make Sense of Things: The Dawn of Art, Ethics, Science, Politics, and Religion
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Ultimate Memory Magic: The Transformative Program for Sharper Memory, Mental Clarity, and Greater Focus . . . at Any Age!
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3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Ultimate Memory Manual: Learn How to Remember the Things You Used to Forget (Life Level Up Book 6)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
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4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Ultimate Memory Manual: Learn How to Remember the Things You Used to Forget With the Memory Palace Technique
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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MIND: PSYCHOLOGY--The Untold Story...
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains
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4.16 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Deep-Level Influencing - A Successful Career: Learning from Serial Killers
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.38 avg rating — 870,519 ratings
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Survival of the Prettiest : The Science of Beauty
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3.78 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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Records of the Future - Classical Entropy, Memory, and the 'Arrow of Time' (Quantum Physics free of Folklore, Book 1)
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things
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3.70 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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4.12 avg rating — 4,856 ratings
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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
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4.01 avg rating — 509 ratings
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To Mars With Love
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Great science books imo