Popular Science Books

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Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,903 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by: Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,339 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,784 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,118 ratings
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth 4.24 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 3.94 avg rating — 22,977 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
by: Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 10,634 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
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by: Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating — 54,825 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,374 ratings
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Time Travel: A History
Time Travel: A History 3.58 avg rating — 4,632 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself 4.18 avg rating — 9,959 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,020 ratings
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The Science of Interstellar
The Science of Interstellar 4.29 avg rating — 6,593 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,857 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,152 ratings
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Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet 4.40 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death 3.93 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 4.08 avg rating — 200,006 ratings
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World 4.11 avg rating — 20,498 ratings
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World 4.41 avg rating — 3,298 ratings
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World 3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space 3.98 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,888 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time 3.54 avg rating — 578 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World 4.06 avg rating — 58,655 ratings
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The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating — 42,955 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time 4.21 avg rating — 467,056 ratings
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A Slow Passion: Snails, My Garden and Me
A Slow Passion: Snails, My Garden and Me 4.12 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us 4.01 avg rating — 32,460 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,320 ratings
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival 4.05 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat 4.09 avg rating — 538 ratings
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Now: The Physics of Time
Now: The Physics of Time 3.90 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It 3.99 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds 4.22 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space 3.74 avg rating — 2,539 ratings
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey 4.13 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time 3.66 avg rating — 5,851 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,025 ratings
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The Polar Bear (Volume 2) (Endangered Animals, 2)
The Polar Bear (Volume 2) (Endangered Animals, 2) 4.25 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell 3.75 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,469 ratings
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 4.26 avg rating — 6,153 ratings
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Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines 4.03 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines 4.03 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Quantum Computing Since Democritus 4.15 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information 4.23 avg rating — 7,914 ratings
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Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use
Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use 3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past 4.14 avg rating — 5,853 ratings