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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,251,550 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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3.90 avg rating — 107,876 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.32 avg rating — 28,838 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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On the Move: A Life
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4.03 avg rating — 21,341 ratings
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H is for Hawk
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3.74 avg rating — 79,387 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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4.14 avg rating — 192,494 ratings
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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4.03 avg rating — 4,903 ratings
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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4.25 avg rating — 121,559 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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3.93 avg rating — 23,079 ratings
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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3.63 avg rating — 17,753 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,988 ratings
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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3.68 avg rating — 3,485 ratings
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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4.14 avg rating — 12,144 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 50,879 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 73,207 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 283,384 ratings
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Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
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4.22 avg rating — 796 ratings
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Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
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4.05 avg rating — 2,621 ratings
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
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3.66 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 39,813 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 57,856 ratings
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Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self
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3.55 avg rating — 583 ratings
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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3.94 avg rating — 11,746 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 — 30,746 ratings
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The Science of Interstellar
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4.29 avg rating — 6,657 ratings
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The Blue Whale (Volume 1) (Endangered Animals, 1)
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4.27 avg rating — 782 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,802 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 212,690 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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4.25 avg rating — 13,548 ratings
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
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3.90 avg rating — 2,868 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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3.97 avg rating — 16,275 ratings
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The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
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3.91 avg rating — 1,265 ratings
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Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
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3.80 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
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3.50 avg rating — 4,807 ratings
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Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 21,204 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
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4.04 avg rating — 13,137 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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3.99 avg rating — 64,958 ratings
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The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
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4.05 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time
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3.61 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
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3.75 avg rating — 2,303 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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3.79 avg rating — 4,392 ratings
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
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3.78 avg rating — 615 ratings
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
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4.44 avg rating — 6,848 ratings
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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3.94 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 20,645 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,248 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,394 ratings
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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3.95 avg rating — 21,015 ratings
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Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
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Aurora
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3.78 avg rating — 27,301 ratings
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Seveneves
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,421 ratings
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The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
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3.64 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Awakenings
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4.09 avg rating — 13,900 ratings
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One Wild Bird At A Time: Portraits of Individual Lives
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3.88 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
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4.53 avg rating — 5,136 ratings
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Shaman
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3.76 avg rating — 4,747 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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4.34 avg rating — 11,144 ratings
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Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food
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3.88 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am?: and hundreds more Big Questions from Little People answered by experts
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3.90 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Plucked: A History of Hair Removal (Biopolitics, 8)
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3.76 avg rating — 384 ratings
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The Sting of the Wild
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4.09 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World
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4.39 avg rating — 2,297 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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4.18 avg rating — 10,022 ratings
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
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3.88 avg rating — 7,803 ratings
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Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
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3.89 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
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3.75 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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3.85 avg rating — 5,719 ratings
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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3.81 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
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Dark Matter
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The Coming Swarm: DDOS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet
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3.70 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Sixteenth Rail: The Evidence, the Scientist, and the Lindbergh Kidnapping
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3.79 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science
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3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
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3.20 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
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4.32 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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4.38 avg rating — 19,334 ratings
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Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit
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3.81 avg rating — 796 ratings
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Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food
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4.05 avg rating — 3,745 ratings
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The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey
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4.01 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Life in Letters
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4.17 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Spurious Correlations
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3.70 avg rating — 372 ratings
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The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering
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3.04 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
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3.95 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Professor Astro Cat's Frontiers of Space
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4.50 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Shackleton's Journey
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4.31 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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Animalium
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4.46 avg rating — 1,410 ratings
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Infographics: Human Body
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3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Worm
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4.26 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Bones, Books, and Bell Jars: Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
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3.98 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
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3.70 avg rating — 3,434 ratings
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The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
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4.06 avg rating — 8,635 ratings
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What's Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success
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4.29 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
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4.10 avg rating — 3,034 ratings
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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
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4.08 avg rating — 1,701 ratings
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Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting
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4.32 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Outdoor Science Lab for Kids: 52 Family-Friendly Experiments for the Yard, Garden, Playground, and Park (Volume 6) (Lab for Kids, 6)
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4.36 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
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3.88 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
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3.91 avg rating — 291 ratings
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