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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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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 — 56,097 ratings
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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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3.99 avg rating — 76,164 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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3.91 avg rating — 28,158 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,502 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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3.75 avg rating — 30,325 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 801,359 ratings
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How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
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3.90 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,198 ratings
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Darwin for Beginners
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3.67 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Snowflake Bentley
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4.13 avg rating — 16,525 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, And the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,226 ratings
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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
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4.04 avg rating — 5,243 ratings
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The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey
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3.81 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,581 ratings
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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 Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made The Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys Through Knowledge
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3.97 avg rating — 710 ratings
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The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
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4.08 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
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The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
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3.95 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
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4.13 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 455,282 ratings
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Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
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3.83 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,630 ratings
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