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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
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Trilobite!: Eyewitness to Evolution
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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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The Mind's Eye
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Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
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Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe
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Nicholas Nicastro (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
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The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
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Dave Goldberg (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 560 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
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David George Haskell (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 4,246 ratings
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The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
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Vesuvius: A Biography
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 16,915 ratings
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Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
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4.18 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Lindsey Fitzharris (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 21,844 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 10,022 ratings
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The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
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Tom Standage (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats
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Steve Ettlinger (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017
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Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life
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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
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A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
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Thor Hanson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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Between Genius and Genocide The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare
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Microbe Hunters
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Survivors: The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Volume 3) (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
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3.81 avg rating — 372 ratings
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All About Dinosaurs
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4.09 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
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John Brockman (Editor)
3.66 avg rating — 2,824 ratings
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The Untold History of the Potato
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Mark Pendergrast (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 499 ratings
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God and the New Physics
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What to Eat
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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William Stolzenburg (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
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3.93 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future
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3.98 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
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A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
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What Einstein Told His Cook
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The World Without Us
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Red Clay, Pink Cadillacs and White Gold: The Kaolin Chalk Wars
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The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
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The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
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Vince Beiser (Goodreads Author)
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The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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Annie Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
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Ryan North (Goodreads Author)
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
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Traces Of The Past: Unraveling The Secrets Of Archaeology Through Chemistry (Contemporary Issues in Museum Cultures
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Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
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Plagues and Peoples
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What the River Reveals: Understanding and Restoring Healthy Watersheds
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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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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 10,675 ratings
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
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4.11 avg rating — 159 ratings
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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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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
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Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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A Natural History of Cumberland Island, Georgia
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Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
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Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida
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Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
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