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1.
DNA: The Secret of Life
by:
James D. Watson
4.11 avg rating â 2,805 ratings
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Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
by:
Deborah Blum
4.25 avg rating â 926 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by:
Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating â 28,488 ratings
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A Student's Guide to Natural Science
by:
Stephen M. Barr
3.88 avg rating â 64 ratings
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A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century
by:
Edward Grant
3.53 avg rating â 32 ratings
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Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma
by:
Richard van de Lagemaat
3.99 avg rating â 72 ratings
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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
by:
Ernst W. Mayr
4.29 avg rating â 214 ratings
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The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe
by:
Brian W. Ogilvie
4.05 avg rating â 22 ratings
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Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation
by:
Donald E. Stokes
3.81 avg rating â 145 ratings
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
by:
Robin Marantz Henig
3.83 avg rating â 418 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating â 25,079 ratings
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
by:
Jenny Uglow
3.98 avg rating â 814 ratings
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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
by:
Jennet Conant
3.84 avg rating â 1,439 ratings
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Terrors and Marvels: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II
by:
Tom Shachtman
3.11 avg rating â 19 ratings
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Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
by:
George Dyson
3.95 avg rating â 446 ratings
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Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens
by:
Richard Panek
3.92 avg rating â 108 ratings
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The Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis
by:
Lucy Jago
3.83 avg rating â 549 ratings
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Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
by:
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
3.75 avg rating â 222 ratings
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The Difference Engine : Charles Babbage And The Quest To Build The First Computer
by:
Doron Swade
3.76 avg rating â 304 ratings
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Uncle Tungsten
by:
Oliver Sacks
3.99 avg rating â 6,920 ratings
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The Spark Of Life: Darwin And The Primeval Soup
by:
Christopher Wills
3.44 avg rating â 25 ratings
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The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic
by:
David Shenk
4.09 avg rating â 456 ratings
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Eniac: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
by:
Scott McCartney
3.76 avg rating â 488 ratings
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Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
by:
Leonard Mlodinow
3.89 avg rating â 2,204 ratings
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Decoding Darkness: The Search For The Genetic Causes Of Alzheimer's Disease
by:
Rudolph E. Tanzi
3.76 avg rating â 50 ratings
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A Plague of Frogs : The Horrifying True Story
by:
William Souder
3.68 avg rating â 114 ratings
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The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict between Animal Research and Animal Protection
by:
Deborah Rudacille
3.36 avg rating â 33 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating â 27,646 ratings
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The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe
by:
John Gribbin
3.85 avg rating â 179 ratings
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The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
by:
Edmund Blair Bolles
3.68 avg rating â 85 ratings
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Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold
by:
Tom Shachtman
3.79 avg rating â 246 ratings
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
by:
Michael Lewis
3.76 avg rating â 10,122 ratings
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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
by:
Jonathan Weiner
4.18 avg rating â 929 ratings
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Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils
by:
J. William Schopf
3.96 avg rating â 45 ratings
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The Restless Sea: Exploring the World Beneath the Waves
by:
Robert Kunzig
3.93 avg rating â 46 ratings
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
by:
Alan Sokal
3.89 avg rating â 2,195 ratings
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
by:
Richard Fortey
4.08 avg rating â 3,321 ratings
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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
by:
Carl Safina
4.31 avg rating â 941 ratings
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The Ascent of Science
by:
Brian L. Silver
4.20 avg rating â 113 ratings
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Connected Knowledge: Science, Philosophy, and Education
by:
Alan H. Cromer
3.75 avg rating â 12 ratings
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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report
by:
Timothy Ferris
4.07 avg rating â 2,398 ratings
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Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
by:
Theo Colborn
4.11 avg rating â 861 ratings
43.
Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts (Henry Holt Reference Book)
by:
Michael Sims
4.23 avg rating â 13 ratings
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And the Waters Turned to Blood
by:
Rodney Barker
3.70 avg rating â 298 ratings
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The Last Stand: The War between Wall Street and Main Street over California's Ancient Redwoods
by:
David Harris
4.18 avg rating â 55 ratings
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The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
by:
Diane Ackerman
4.11 avg rating â 357 ratings
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And No Birds Sing: The Story of an Ecological Disaster in a Tropical Paradise
by:
Mark Jaffe
4.30 avg rating â 47 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by:
Jonathan Weiner
4.17 avg rating â 9,808 ratings
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Linnaeus: Nature and Nation
by:
Lisbet Koerner
3.44 avg rating â 18 ratings
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The Way of Natural History
by:
Thomas Lowe Fleischner
4.26 avg rating â 50 ratings
51.
The Nature of Natural History
by:
Marston Bates
3.50 avg rating â 8 ratings
52.
Arctic Dreams
by:
Barry Lopez
4.23 avg rating â 8,801 ratings
53.
Natural History: A Selection
by:
Pliny the Elder
3.99 avg rating â 582 ratings
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
by:
Arthur O. Lovejoy
4.04 avg rating â 496 ratings
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The Naturalist in Britain
by:
David Elliston Allen
3.78 avg rating â 9 ratings
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Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson
by:
Paul Lawrence Farber
3.80 avg rating â 59 ratings
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Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology
by:
Robert E. Kohler
4.18 avg rating â 11 ratings
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The American Development of Biology
by:
Ronald Rainger
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating â 1 rating
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Herodotus
by:
John Gould
3.91 avg rating â 22 ratings
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Hippocrates 1: Ancient Medicine (Loeb Classical Library edition #1)
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Hippocrates
3.86 avg rating â 44 ratings
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Hippocrates 2: Prognostic (Loeb Classical Library edition #2)
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Hippocrates
3.90 avg rating â 20 ratings
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Hippocrates 3: On Wounds in the Head (Loeb Classical Library edition #3)
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Hippocrates
3.78 avg rating â 18 ratings
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Hippocrates 4: Nature of Man (Loeb Classical Library edition #4)
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Hippocrates
3.53 avg rating â 19 ratings
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Hippocratic Writings
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Hippocrates
3.61 avg rating â 365 ratings
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Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle
by:
G.E.R. Lloyd
3.79 avg rating â 176 ratings
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The Laws of Plato
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Plato
4.05 avg rating â 2,931 ratings
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Republic: Books 1-5
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Plato
4.42 avg rating â 233 ratings
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Republic: Books 6-10 (Î ÎŋÎģΚĪÎĩÎ¯Îą, #2)
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Plato
4.45 avg rating â 156 ratings
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Plato: Laches/Protagoras/Meno/Euthydemus
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Plato
4.40 avg rating â 48 ratings
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
by:
Karl Popper
4.19 avg rating â 1,750 ratings
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Hippocratic Heritage: A History of Ideas about Weather and Human Health
by:
Frederick Sargent II
0.00 avg rating â 0 ratings
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What Plato Said
by:
Paul Shorey
4.29 avg rating â 7 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War: Books 1-2
by:
Thucydides
4.31 avg rating â 268 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War: Bk 3-4
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Thucydides
4.50 avg rating â 52 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War: Books 5-6
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Thucydides
4.43 avg rating â 70 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War: Books 7-8
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Thucydides
4.47 avg rating â 59 ratings
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From the Beginning to Plato: Routledge History of Philosophy, Volume 1
by:
C.C.W. Taylor
3.80 avg rating â 65 ratings
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Parts of Animals/Movement of Animals/Progression of Animals
by:
Aristotle
3.75 avg rating â 64 ratings
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Generation of Animals
by:
Aristotle
3.59 avg rating â 98 ratings
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Historia Animalium 1: Books 1-10 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, #38)
by:
Aristotle
3.38 avg rating â 8 ratings
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Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 1
by:
Anton-Hermann Chroust
0.00 avg rating â 0 ratings
82.
Theophrastus of Eresus: On His Life and Work
by:
W.W. Fortenbaugh
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating â 1 rating
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Theophrastean Studies: On Natural Science, Physics and Metaphysics, Ethics, Religion and Rhetoric
by:
W.W. Fortenbaugh
0.00 avg rating â 0 ratings
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Theophrastus: His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings
by:
W.W. Fortenbaugh
0.00 avg rating â 0 ratings
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Theophrastus Of Eresus: Sources For His Life, Writings, Thought And Influence, Commentary, Rhetoric And Poetics (texts 666-713) (Philosophia Antiqua)
by:
W.W. Fortenbaugh
0.00 avg rating â 0 ratings
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Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology
by:
Allan Gotthelf
4.75 avg rating â 8 ratings
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Enquiry into Plants, Volume I: Books 1â5
by:
Theophrastus
3.64 avg rating â 28 ratings
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Enquiry into Plants, II, Books 6-9. On Odours. Weather Signs
by:
Theophrastus
3.57 avg rating â 14 ratings
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De Causis Plantarum, Volume I: Books 1â2
by:
Theophrastus
3.50 avg rating â 2 ratings
90.
De Causis Plantarum, Volume II: Books 3â4
by:
Theophrastus
3.33 avg rating â 3 ratings
91.
De Causis Plantarum, Volume III: Books 5â6
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Theophrastus
really liked it 4.00 avg rating â 1 rating
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Ancient Astrology
by:
Tamsyn Barton
4.06 avg rating â 32 ratings
93.
The Greeks and the Environment
by:
Laura Westra
liked it 3.00 avg rating â 1 rating
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Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature
by:
Roger French
really liked it 4.00 avg rating â 4 ratings
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Dawn of Zoology
by:
Willy Ley
4.40 avg rating â 15 ratings
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Greek Science After Aristotle
by:
G.E.R. Lloyd
3.77 avg rating â 79 ratings
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Ennead, Volume I: Porphyry on the Life of Plotinus, Ennead I
by:
Plotinus
4.11 avg rating â 99 ratings
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Enneads II
by:
Plotinus
4.32 avg rating â 40 ratings
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Ennead III (Loeb Classical Library, 442)
by:
Plotinus
4.37 avg rating â 52 ratings
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Ennead IV
by:
Plotinus
4.41 avg rating â 37 ratings