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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,714 ratings
"Winner of 2011 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,133 ratings
"Winner of 2012 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
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4.05 avg rating — 14,121 ratings
"Winner of 2013 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
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4.13 avg rating — 3,043 ratings
"Winner of 2014 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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War of the Whales: A True Story
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4.07 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
"Winner of 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
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4.22 avg rating — 802 ratings
"Winner of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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3.85 avg rating — 5,795 ratings
"Winner of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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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 — 22,787 ratings
"Winner of 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
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4.28 avg rating — 5,469 ratings
"Winner of 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Genius of Birds
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4.05 avg rating — 13,605 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
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4.22 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
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4.08 avg rating — 830 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
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4.08 avg rating — 7,698 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
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4.13 avg rating — 938 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 72,014 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,994 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,543 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
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3.92 avg rating — 2,124 ratings
"Nominee of 2017 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self
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3.78 avg rating — 1,586 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,019 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved
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4.11 avg rating — 877 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
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4.18 avg rating — 369 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
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4.14 avg rating — 608 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
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3.77 avg rating — 6,086 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
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4.08 avg rating — 4,664 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
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3.81 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
"Nominee of 2016 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Island on Fire
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3.86 avg rating — 859 ratings
"Nominee of 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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4.12 avg rating — 15,672 ratings
"Nominee of 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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4.25 avg rating — 13,798 ratings
"Nominee of 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,602 ratings
"Nominee of 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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Small: Life and Death on the Front Lines of Pediatric Surgery
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4.14 avg rating — 109 ratings
"Nominee of 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award"
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The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
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3.89 avg rating — 519 ratings
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Proof: The Science of Booze
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3.92 avg rating — 4,241 ratings
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The Copernicus Complex: Caleb A. Scharf
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3.91 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
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3.81 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
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3.73 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
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4.04 avg rating — 2,541 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 41,148 ratings
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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3.84 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
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4.05 avg rating — 2,632 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,807 ratings
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Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
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3.70 avg rating — 506 ratings
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What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs
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3.98 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
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3.68 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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4.24 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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4.01 avg rating — 10,865 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,533 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 12,152 ratings
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
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3.31 avg rating — 3,287 ratings
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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
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4.17 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
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4.36 avg rating — 896 ratings
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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
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3.76 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
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3.87 avg rating — 4,295 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.38 avg rating — 32,105 ratings
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The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
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4.05 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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The Beginning of Everything
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3.76 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
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3.79 avg rating — 826 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,375 ratings
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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4.28 avg rating — 3,862 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.07 avg rating — 1,767 ratings
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 5,024 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge
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3.88 avg rating — 538 ratings
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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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4.23 avg rating — 4,196 ratings
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Fathoms: The World in the Whale
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3.88 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
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The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
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4.14 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
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3.87 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
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4.19 avg rating — 6,329 ratings
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A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
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3.82 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
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3.96 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
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Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells
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4.05 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
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4.44 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
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Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
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3.77 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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4.21 avg rating — 5,681 ratings
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On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
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3.63 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
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3.87 avg rating — 571 ratings
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
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4.18 avg rating — 934 ratings
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The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
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3.86 avg rating — 700 ratings
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Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
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3.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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