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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
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The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
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The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story
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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
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Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
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Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof
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Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
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Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
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The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint
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How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
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How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond
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Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
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CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
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The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds
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Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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A History of Biology
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The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
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Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants
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Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
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Understanding DNA Ancestry
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What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research
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The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
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Vaxxers
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The Brilliant Abyss
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The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
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Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
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Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything
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What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
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Eyes to the Sky: Privacy and Commerce in the Age of the Drone
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How Social Science Got Better: Overcoming Bias with More Evidence, Diversity, and Self-Reflection
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Causal Inference: The Mixtape
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
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Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe
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30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
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Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers
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The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
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The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
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Human-Like Machine Intelligence
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Black Boxes: How Science Turns Ignorance Into Knowledge
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Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge from the History of Science
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Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals
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The Thread of Energy
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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
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Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
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Foundations of Modern Physics
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Coral Reefs: Majestic Realms under the Sea
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A Natural History of Shells (Princeton Science Library Book 123)
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Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
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American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
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National Geographic Ocean: A Global Odyssey
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The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology
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River Planet: Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis
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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead, 1925 - 1927: The General Metaphysical Problems of Science (The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead)
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Crabs: A Global Natural History
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The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
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Rethinking Cancer: A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)
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The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye
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The Universe
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Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
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Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference
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Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
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Subterranea: Journey into the Depths of the Earth’s Most Extraordinary Underground Spaces
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A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease
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The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories From a Revolution in Medicine
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How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
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A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist
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From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics
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The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
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Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
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Terraforming Mars
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Science Wars: The Battle over Knowledge and Reality
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Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
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Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis
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No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World
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Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters
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Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward
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Wetlands Conservation: Current Challenges and Future Strategies
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Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
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White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
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From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific: Diplomacy in a Contested Region
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The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilization
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