Popular Science Books Written By Women

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,450 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,057 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York 4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 3.85 avg rating — 59,577 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail 4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife 3.60 avg rating — 40,173 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal 3.93 avg rating — 50,607 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.95 avg rating — 59,461 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,316 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,015 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,024 ratings
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions 3.93 avg rating — 5,389 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,446 ratings
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
Woman: An Intimate Geography 4.13 avg rating — 4,468 ratings
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Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,895 ratings
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World 3.80 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference 4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings
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The Planets
The Planets 3.64 avg rating — 4,734 ratings
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Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS
Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS 4.13 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 8,184 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,281 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
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Mapping the Mind
Mapping the Mind 4.10 avg rating — 3,365 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 Epigenetics Revolution
The Epigenetics Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century 3.90 avg rating — 3,654 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II 3.96 avg rating — 29,156 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us 3.71 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,648 ratings
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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain 3.77 avg rating — 1,952 ratings
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History 3.97 avg rating — 7,042 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code 4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,601 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 — 3,470 ratings
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Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting 3.83 avg rating — 996 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey 3.91 avg rating — 31,795 ratings
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics 3.63 avg rating — 1,954 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 — 22,976 ratings
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
The Secret History of the War on Cancer 4.05 avg rating — 385 ratings
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How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths
How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths 3.63 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician 3.85 avg rating — 2,411 ratings
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The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions
The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions 3.79 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA 4.12 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
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My Sister Rosalind Franklin
My Sister Rosalind Franklin 4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Color: A Natural History of the Palette 3.80 avg rating — 71,298 ratings
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Allergy Guide: Alternative & Conventional Solutions
Allergy Guide: Alternative & Conventional Solutions 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Secret Life of Sleep
The Secret Life of Sleep
by: Kat Duff
3.44 avg rating — 400 ratings
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens 3.79 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
The Hospital by the River 4.10 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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Quit or Die Trying
Quit or Die Trying 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere 4.16 avg rating — 569 ratings
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Only the Longest Threads
Only the Longest Threads 4.11 avg rating — 80 ratings
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30 Days
30 Days 4.64 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Blachart
Blachart 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Theories of Interval Arithmetic: Mathematical Foundations and Applications
Theories of Interval Arithmetic: Mathematical Foundations and Applications really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,432 ratings
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life 4.03 avg rating — 4,895 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner 4.26 avg rating — 26,519 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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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred 4.11 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
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The Dinosaur Hunters
The Dinosaur Hunters 4.17 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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Vampire Chimeras
Vampire Chimeras 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society
Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Big Data: Does Size Matter?
Big Data: Does Size Matter? 3.58 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Thyroid Connection: Why You Feel Tired, Brain-Fogged, and Overweight - and How to Get Your Life Back
The Thyroid Connection: Why You Feel Tired, Brain-Fogged, and Overweight - and How to Get Your Life Back
by: Amy Myers
3.72 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service 3.94 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant Now
The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant Now 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time
My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time 3.88 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Be the Rainbow * Bridge Heaven and Earth:: How-to Manual for Integrating Alternative and Evidence-Based Medicine
Be the Rainbow * Bridge Heaven and Earth:: How-to Manual for Integrating Alternative and Evidence-Based Medicine it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic 3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves 3.85 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing 4.11 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner
How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner 3.75 avg rating — 827 ratings
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Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry 4.11 avg rating — 5,038 ratings
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything 3.93 avg rating — 1,867 ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Thinking In Systems: A Primer 4.19 avg rating — 20,772 ratings
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The End of Everything
The End of Everything 4.26 avg rating — 12,204 ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
A Natural History of the Senses 4.15 avg rating — 7,852 ratings
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The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus 3.89 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West 4.15 avg rating — 1,578 ratings
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The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World
The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World 4.06 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. 3.60 avg rating — 5,471 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings
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The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory 3.93 avg rating — 2,223 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution 3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Alan M. Turing
Alan M. Turing 3.36 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor
by: Hali Felt
3.78 avg rating — 346 ratings
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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy 3.76 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
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The Nature of Economies
The Nature of Economies 3.81 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Condition Critical
Condition Critical 4.29 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side 3.58 avg rating — 3,558 ratings
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How Animals Grieve
How Animals Grieve 3.72 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Female Brain
The Female Brain 3.85 avg rating — 14,200 ratings
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Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free 3.87 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story 4.11 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites 3.85 avg rating — 878 ratings
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The Monkey Wars
The Monkey Wars 4.13 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health 3.54 avg rating — 654 ratings
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing 4.02 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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