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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 415,212 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,199 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 189,968 ratings
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Cosmos
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4.40 avg rating — 156,489 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 448,140 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 120,649 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.27 avg rating — 214,561 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 78,946 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 55,640 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 74,090 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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4.19 avg rating — 44,848 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 51,884 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.14 avg rating — 28,498 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 27,752 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,217,279 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 111,981 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 — 40,176 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 235,865 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 29,349 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 — 28,630 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 53,762 ratings
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King Solomon's Ring
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4.13 avg rating — 4,502 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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4.06 avg rating — 21,462 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,831 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 791,769 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,139 ratings
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Fermat's Enigma
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4.30 avg rating — 32,953 ratings
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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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3.92 avg rating — 55,334 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,181 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 192,493 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 41,306 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,242 ratings
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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4.15 avg rating — 23,451 ratings
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On Human Nature
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4.14 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 77,868 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,700 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 — 5,950 ratings
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,407 ratings
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.14 avg rating — 10,363 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 10,834 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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4.03 avg rating — 40,435 ratings
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A Briefer History of Time
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4.26 avg rating — 42,325 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 — 28,300 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
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4.09 avg rating — 41,127 ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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3.46 avg rating — 720 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 120,053 ratings
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Voyage of the Beagle
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4.02 avg rating — 8,320 ratings
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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4.61 avg rating — 8,021 ratings
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
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4.12 avg rating — 9,522 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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4.30 avg rating — 17,677 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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4.34 avg rating — 38,886 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 — 55,471 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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4.20 avg rating — 22,809 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 — 39,738 ratings
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How to Lie with Statistics
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3.84 avg rating — 17,691 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.18 avg rating — 30,745 ratings
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Life on Earth
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4.46 avg rating — 4,958 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,386 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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4.12 avg rating — 39,341 ratings
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Theory of People: Master Behaviors, Business, Economics, Emotions and Mind in One Simple Way (Understanding the World Book 1)
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4.22 avg rating — 216 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.13 avg rating — 7,557 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 36,645 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.39 avg rating — 30,170 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
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4.06 avg rating — 9,246 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,033 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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4.17 avg rating — 9,837 ratings
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Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
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3.81 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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4.12 avg rating — 24,172 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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4.17 avg rating — 198,894 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 16,916 ratings
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The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
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4.15 avg rating — 4,121 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 54,475 ratings
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
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4.22 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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4.16 avg rating — 3,107 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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4.10 avg rating — 31,989 ratings
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The Descent of Man
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4.04 avg rating — 4,426 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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3.99 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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4.29 avg rating — 10,664 ratings
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Gorillas in the Mist
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4.15 avg rating — 21,096 ratings
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Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
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3.79 avg rating — 4,028 ratings
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Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
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3.90 avg rating — 897 ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,570 ratings
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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4.26 avg rating — 6,178 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.19 avg rating — 281,339 ratings
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Intelligent Life in the Universe
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4.28 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,002 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 241,629 ratings
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Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health
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4.42 avg rating — 20,159 ratings
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
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4.03 avg rating — 2,517 ratings
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
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4.11 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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4.29 avg rating — 8,591 ratings
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The Immense Journey
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4.31 avg rating — 2,506 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
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3.87 avg rating — 7,158 ratings
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 8,856 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.10 avg rating — 101,389 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,261 ratings
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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3.70 avg rating — 7,220 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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4.34 avg rating — 74 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 — 5,238 ratings
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The Periodic Table
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4.14 avg rating — 18,952 ratings
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