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The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
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4.57 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 16,360 ratings
score: 87,
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Supercooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour {Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed}
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3.84 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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4.26 avg rating — 6,194 ratings
score: 86,
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
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4.01 avg rating — 4,053 ratings
score: 85,
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Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
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4.25 avg rating — 2,151 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,852 ratings
score: 84,
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Ordinary Geniuses: Max Delbruck, George Gamow, and the Origins of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology
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4.04 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 83,
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Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
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3.98 avg rating — 408 ratings
score: 82,
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Kai Bird (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 57,373 ratings
score: 79,
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The Character of Physical Law
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4.30 avg rating — 7,765 ratings
score: 78,
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,361 ratings
score: 76,
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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4.07 avg rating — 5,787 ratings
score: 75,
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The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
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3.84 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
score: 74,
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Relativity Visualized: The Gold Nugget of Relativity Books
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4.40 avg rating — 203 ratings
score: 74,
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Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos
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4.02 avg rating — 1,700 ratings
score: 73,
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Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg
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4.09 avg rating — 93 ratings
score: 73,
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.13 avg rating — 7,619 ratings
score: 72,
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Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution
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3.93 avg rating — 467 ratings
score: 71,
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Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 3,264 ratings
score: 70,
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The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox
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3.94 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 64,
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
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Howard Rheingold (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 864 ratings
score: 58,
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
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3.84 avg rating — 2,321 ratings
score: 57,
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,393 ratings
score: 45,
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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4.15 avg rating — 23,584 ratings
score: 43,
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,311 ratings
score: 36,
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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4.15 avg rating — 3,750 ratings
score: 28,
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Irrational Exuberance
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3.98 avg rating — 8,431 ratings
score: 27,
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Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
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3.65 avg rating — 341 ratings
score: 26,
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.92 avg rating — 32,164 ratings
score: 22,
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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 — 10,875 ratings
score: 21,
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
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Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 29,610 ratings
score: 20,
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