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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 — 120,038 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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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.42 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,628 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.27 avg rating — 214,534 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 Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,139 ratings
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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
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4.11 avg rating — 2,779 ratings
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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4.30 avg rating — 2,137 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.84 avg rating — 19,830 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 791,673 ratings
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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.70 avg rating — 499 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,241 ratings
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West Nile Story
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3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
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4.10 avg rating — 1,364 ratings
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Principles of Virology (2 Volume Set)
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4.27 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Cryptonomicon
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4.23 avg rating — 116,029 ratings
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Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
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4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,676 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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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,386 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 448,085 ratings
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
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4.29 avg rating — 3,095 ratings
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Viruses And The Evolution Of Life
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Machinery of Life
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4.43 avg rating — 719 ratings
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Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
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4.24 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,308 ratings
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New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People
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4.11 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
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4.10 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Never Cry Wolf: Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
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4.21 avg rating — 25,643 ratings
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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4.01 avg rating — 7,428 ratings
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March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen
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4.19 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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4.06 avg rating — 6,868 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 111,965 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.22 avg rating — 415,155 ratings
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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4.08 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
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3.98 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
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4.02 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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3.78 avg rating — 7,207 ratings
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Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene
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4.31 avg rating — 192 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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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
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4.18 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
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4.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The patchwork mouse
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Arrowsmith
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3.84 avg rating — 8,415 ratings
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Principles of Molecular Virology
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3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
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4.25 avg rating — 426 ratings
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On the Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 120,640 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 78,933 ratings
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Peeps (Peeps, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 25,498 ratings
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
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3.87 avg rating — 316 ratings
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The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Origin and Evolution of Viruses
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Origin of Group Identity: Viruses, Addiction and Cooperation
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Listen to the Music: The Life of Hilary Koprowski
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A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused
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4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
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4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Beginning Mac OS X Programming
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3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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An Imperfect Lens
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The World's Water 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 51,851 ratings
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Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are
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3.73 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Youngest Science
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4.10 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Fundamentals of Molecular Virology
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4.20 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development
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3.92 avg rating — 51 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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For Love of Insects
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4.52 avg rating — 313 ratings
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100 Questions & Answers About Influenza: .
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited
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4.41 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas
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4.45 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,433 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,268 ratings
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The Ig Nobel Prizes
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3.48 avg rating — 268 ratings
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Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets
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Powers of Ten (Scientific American Library Series #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Black Cloud
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3.90 avg rating — 5,190 ratings
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The Art and Politics of Science
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3.76 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell
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4.31 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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4.42 avg rating — 107,444 ratings
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Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
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4.05 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene
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3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
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4.25 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,906 ratings
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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3.95 avg rating — 4,184 ratings
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Starswarm
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3.82 avg rating — 810 ratings
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The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
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3.98 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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4.07 avg rating — 4,169 ratings
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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
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3.81 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Invisible ABCs: Exploring the World of Microbes (ASM Books)
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas
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4.33 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Advice for a Young Investigator
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3.91 avg rating — 998 ratings
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The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected
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3.80 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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4.25 avg rating — 18,242 ratings
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Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
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3.67 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Caliciviruses: Molecular and Cellular Virology
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At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator, Updated Edition
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4.19 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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4.07 avg rating — 5,778 ratings
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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4.20 avg rating — 2,974 ratings
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