Understanding the World
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
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Alan de Queiroz
3.78 avg rating — 324 ratings 103. 
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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Robert M. Hazen
4.24 avg rating — 3,071 ratings 104. 
Elements of Taste: Understanding What We Like and Why
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Benjamin Errett
3.25 avg rating — 135 ratings 105. 
Mirror for Man: The Relation of the Anthropology to Modern Life
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Clyde Kluckhohn
3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings 106. 
Animal Welfare Science, Husbandry and Ethics: The Evolving Story of Our Relationship with Farm Animals
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Mark Fisher
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 107. 
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 4.19 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration of Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
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Alison Gopnik
3.77 avg rating — 2,704 ratings 110. 
The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism
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Temple Grandin
3.89 avg rating — 867 ratings 
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Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect
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Yannis Hamilakis
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
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William James
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12,769 ratings 116. 
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Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World―and Us
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Patrick Roberts
3.70 avg rating — 172 ratings 118. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 119. 
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating — 10,884 ratings 120. 
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
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Daniel Yergin
4.14 avg rating — 5,096 ratings 121. 
Their Fate is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World
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Peter C. Doherty
3.44 avg rating — 64 ratings 122. 
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
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Trevor J. Cox
3.77 avg rating — 455 ratings 123. 
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How it Changed the World
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Carl Zimmer
3.97 avg rating — 650 ratings 124. 
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
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John Brockman
3.66 avg rating — 2,818 ratings 125. 
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols 3.95 avg rating — 622 ratings
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
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Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 3,303 ratings 127. 
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
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Oliver Morton
3.77 avg rating — 373 ratings 
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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Marcia Bjornerud
4.07 avg rating — 1,658 ratings 130. 
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World 3.84 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
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Peter Singer
4.15 avg rating — 6,711 ratings 132. 
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36 avg rating — 4,534 ratings 133. 
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tommie Shelby
4.35 avg rating — 63 ratings 134. 
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
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Oliver Milman
4.09 avg rating — 1,288 ratings 135. 
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
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Joy Harjo
4.54 avg rating — 827 ratings