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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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4.28 avg rating — 40,098 ratings
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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4.10 avg rating — 12,880 ratings
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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3.94 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
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3.90 avg rating — 2,208 ratings
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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4.36 avg rating — 164,605 ratings
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Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
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4.59 avg rating — 12,414 ratings
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain―And How They Guide You
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3.86 avg rating — 437 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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4.11 avg rating — 4,034 ratings
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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4.06 avg rating — 6,690 ratings
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Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
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4.26 avg rating — 923 ratings
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Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
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4.08 avg rating — 9,812 ratings
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Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals
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3.95 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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3.71 avg rating — 5,644 ratings
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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
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4.10 avg rating — 4,549 ratings
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The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
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4.12 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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3.89 avg rating — 1,513 ratings
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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
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4.09 avg rating — 2,987 ratings
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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4.13 avg rating — 138,296 ratings
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Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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4.18 avg rating — 15,290 ratings
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The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
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3.91 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants
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3.89 avg rating — 706 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 129,182 ratings
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Vaxxers
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4.35 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
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The Brilliant Abyss
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4.03 avg rating — 2,653 ratings
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Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
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4.14 avg rating — 501 ratings
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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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4.20 avg rating — 5,720 ratings
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
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3.73 avg rating — 412 ratings
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The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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3.94 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
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The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
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4.25 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
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3.93 avg rating — 145 ratings
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CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
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3.63 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Secret World of Weather
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3.94 avg rating — 972 ratings
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The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds
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3.97 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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3.78 avg rating — 7,198 ratings
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The Delusions Of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
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3.60 avg rating — 709 ratings
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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
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3.78 avg rating — 5,370 ratings
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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
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4.17 avg rating — 10,084 ratings
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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
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4.34 avg rating — 2,658 ratings
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T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
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4.02 avg rating — 1,697 ratings
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Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
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3.81 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms
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3.86 avg rating — 528 ratings
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
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3.67 avg rating — 15,725 ratings
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Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain
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4.36 avg rating — 643 ratings
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Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection
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3.72 avg rating — 897 ratings
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How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
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3.87 avg rating — 976 ratings
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Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong – and How to Make Sense of It
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3.84 avg rating — 981 ratings
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The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
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4.29 avg rating — 899 ratings
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Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
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3.84 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
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3.67 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
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3.93 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Math Without Numbers
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4.10 avg rating — 1,602 ratings
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
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3.76 avg rating — 215 ratings
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A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
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3.86 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
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3.81 avg rating — 3,025 ratings
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Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
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4.26 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Understanding DNA Ancestry
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3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research
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4.19 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
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3.99 avg rating — 1,301 ratings
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The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
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3.53 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer
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4.20 avg rating — 4,313 ratings
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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
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3.95 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
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4.38 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof
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2.99 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
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4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
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3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint
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3.49 avg rating — 494 ratings
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How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
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3.84 avg rating — 7,021 ratings
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
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4.20 avg rating — 1,322 ratings
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
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3.60 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
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3.76 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career
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3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 4,290 ratings
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A History of Biology
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3.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
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4.33 avg rating — 42,340 ratings
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
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4.21 avg rating — 16,094 ratings
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
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3.94 avg rating — 974 ratings
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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3.75 avg rating — 2,633 ratings
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
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4.19 avg rating — 17,370 ratings
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
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3.67 avg rating — 3,854 ratings
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Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health
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4.26 avg rating — 6,278 ratings
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Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
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4.06 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
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4.08 avg rating — 411 ratings
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
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3.88 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
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4.24 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
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4.57 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
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4.47 avg rating — 6,290 ratings
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
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4.06 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
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3.63 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
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Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
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3.59 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
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4.27 avg rating — 17,251 ratings
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The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution
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4.29 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
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3.82 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The Nation of Plants
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3.95 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
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Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response
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4.14 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
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4.02 avg rating — 4,625 ratings
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