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How Science Works
There are a lot of great popular science books out there, but these are my favorite to show how the quest for knowledge progresses - for good or bad.
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The Case of the Frozen Addicts
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The Best Bits of Physics
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Alasdair C. Shaw (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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The Diversity of Life
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The Tao of Physics
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Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 791,777 ratings
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