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Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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The Intelligent Ear: The Science of Auditory Perception
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Naked Earth : The New Geophysics
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
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Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self
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Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics
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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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Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
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Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
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A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering In A New Era of Discovery
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The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite
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The Siesta And The Midnight Sun
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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She's Such a Geek!: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff
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Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal
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Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
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The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy
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Like a Virgin: How Science Is Redesigning The Rules Of Sex
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In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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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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The Planets
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Hidden Figures
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Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
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The Beauty Of The Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life
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Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene
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Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography
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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
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The Baby Makers: How Knowing That Sex Leads to Babies Changed Human Evolutionary History
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Human Origins 101 (Science 101)
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
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Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity
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Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
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The Genius of Birds
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Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body
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A Natural History of Parenting: From Emperor Penguins to Reluctant Ewes, a Naturalist Looks at Parenting in the Animal World and Ours
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Explorers of the Black Box: The Search for the Cellular Basis of Memory
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The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love
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Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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Ebola: Story of an Outbreak
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Poseidon's Steed The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality
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Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity
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Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead
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Alzheimer's: Unlocking the Secrets
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution
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A Monk and Two Peas : The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics
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Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival
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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better
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Little Book of Wonders: Celebrating the Gifts of the Natural World
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
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Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
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An Ocean of Air: a Natural History of the Atmosphere [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2007] Gabrielle Walker
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming – A Concise and Persuasive Science Guide to Climate Change Solutions
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Refiguring Life
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Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines
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Feminism and Science
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The Century of the Gene
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Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
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The Plastic Mind
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Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions
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15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
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The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
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Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
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