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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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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,891 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,522 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 — 40,531 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,212 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 32,221 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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3.98 avg rating — 66,510 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.10 avg rating — 41,432 ratings
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Bad Science
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4.06 avg rating — 44,781 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.18 avg rating — 286,441 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,720 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 28,678 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,522 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 31,556 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 28,764 ratings
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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4.21 avg rating — 30,815 ratings
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A Briefer History of Time
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4.26 avg rating — 42,895 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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4.11 avg rating — 20,898 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,321 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 — 22,664 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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4.21 avg rating — 40,093 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,198 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
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4.19 avg rating — 26,023 ratings
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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4.07 avg rating — 88,542 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,606 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,125 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 20,952 ratings
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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4.08 avg rating — 15,509 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,902 ratings
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 10,839 ratings
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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4.27 avg rating — 19,444 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 210,168 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 40,133 ratings
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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3.88 avg rating — 94,008 ratings
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.38 avg rating — 31,505 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.06 avg rating — 21,614 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,282 ratings
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
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4.14 avg rating — 13,751 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 16,428 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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4.18 avg rating — 10,178 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 59,553 ratings
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.19 avg rating — 30,652 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 17,078 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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4.27 avg rating — 84,084 ratings
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The Order of Time
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4.13 avg rating — 38,218 ratings
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Other Minds
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3.88 avg rating — 27,775 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 — 10,812 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 — 52,331 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
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4.18 avg rating — 28,140 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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4.17 avg rating — 62,649 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 9,976 ratings
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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3.85 avg rating — 20,915 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
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4.01 avg rating — 11,485 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 6,029 ratings
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Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
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4.19 avg rating — 65,681 ratings
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Last Chance to See
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
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4.13 avg rating — 11,486 ratings
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
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4.11 avg rating — 15,298 ratings
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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4.03 avg rating — 5,440 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
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4.14 avg rating — 5,920 ratings
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Awakenings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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4.10 avg rating — 9,271 ratings
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Lessons in Chemistry
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.29 avg rating — 8,657 ratings
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
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3.87 avg rating — 33,603 ratings
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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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4.10 avg rating — 22,083 ratings
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The Diversity of Life
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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4.38 avg rating — 20,451 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,109 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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3.86 avg rating — 9,981 ratings
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
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4.33 avg rating — 94,753 ratings
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Project Hail Mary
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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 — 10,903 ratings
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 10,739 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 7,239 ratings
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
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4.09 avg rating — 12,720 ratings
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The Ends of the World
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4.29 avg rating — 6,083 ratings
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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.31 avg rating — 10,115 ratings
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
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4.19 avg rating — 21,819 ratings
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
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