Awesome Science Books

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Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics
Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics 4.39 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,055 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.10 avg rating — 101,035 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,059 ratings
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by: Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic 4.49 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Cosmos
Cosmos 4.40 avg rating — 155,627 ratings
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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships 3.93 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
Chaos: Making a New Science 4.03 avg rating — 40,240 ratings
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Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You
Strange Chemistry: The Stories Your Chemistry Teacher Wouldn't Tell You 4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease 4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings
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Machine Learning: An Introduction Math Guide for Beginners to Understand Data Science Through the Business Applications
Machine Learning: An Introduction Math Guide for Beginners to Understand Data Science Through the Business Applications 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
by: Kit Yates
3.90 avg rating — 2,115 ratings
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Why Evolution Is True
Why Evolution Is True 4.19 avg rating — 25,751 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,832 ratings
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies 4.11 avg rating — 5,357 ratings
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality 4.06 avg rating — 21,372 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters 4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide 4.18 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos 4.21 avg rating — 22,366 ratings
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The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss 4.32 avg rating — 1,233 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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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 4.40 avg rating — 23,886 ratings
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution 4.13 avg rating — 6,305 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 4.14 avg rating — 10,151 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
Physics of the Impossible 4.10 avg rating — 40,954 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by: Nick Lane
4.25 avg rating — 3,634 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time 4.17 avg rating — 9,807 ratings
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17,924 ratings
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 3.97 avg rating — 11,607 ratings
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter 3.95 avg rating — 2,033 ratings
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Decision Trees and Random Forests: A Visual Introduction For Beginners: A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees
Decision Trees and Random Forests: A Visual Introduction For Beginners: A Simple Guide to Machine Learning with Decision Trees 3.93 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,449 ratings
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number 3.80 avg rating — 6,219 ratings
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine 4.10 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things 3.86 avg rating — 1,679 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance 4.05 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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A History of π
A History of π 3.94 avg rating — 2,827 ratings
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e: the Story of a Number
e: the Story of a Number
by: Eli Maor
3.93 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
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The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution 4.14 avg rating — 951 ratings
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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution 3.75 avg rating — 1,948 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples 3.87 avg rating — 4,936 ratings
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The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating — 42,954 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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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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Scratch 2.0 Programming
Scratch 2.0 Programming 4.39 avg rating — 57 ratings
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30 Days
30 Days 4.64 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe
Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe 4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases 4.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Machine Learning with Neural Networks: An In-depth Visual Introduction with Python: Make Your Own Neural Network in Python: A Simple Guide on Machine Learning with Neural Networks.
Machine Learning with Neural Networks: An In-depth Visual Introduction with Python: Make Your Own Neural Network in Python: A Simple Guide on Machine Learning with Neural Networks. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Math of Neural Networks
The Math of Neural Networks 4.17 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Bayes' Theorem Examples: A Visual Introduction For Beginners
Bayes' Theorem Examples: A Visual Introduction For Beginners 3.90 avg rating — 813 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating — 14 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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MIND: PSYCHOLOGY--The Untold Story...
MIND: PSYCHOLOGY--The Untold Story... 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance 4.02 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Do Sharks Like Ice Cream? The Surprising World of Statistics
Do Sharks Like Ice Cream? The Surprising World of Statistics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Searching for Black Gold in El Salvador
Searching for Black Gold in El Salvador it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating — 72,840 ratings
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Theory and Applications of Instantaneous Intensity Analysis: Advanced Analysis Method for Engineering Acoustics
Theory and Applications of Instantaneous Intensity Analysis: Advanced Analysis Method for Engineering Acoustics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present 4.21 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives
Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives 3.74 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Machine Learning Mathematics: Study Deep Learning Through Data Science. How to Build Artificial Intelligence Through Concepts of Statistics, Algorithms, Analysis and Data Mining
Machine Learning Mathematics: Study Deep Learning Through Data Science. How to Build Artificial Intelligence Through Concepts of Statistics, Algorithms, Analysis and Data Mining 4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death
Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death 3.98 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature 3.70 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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Physics of the Zero Point Field and its Applications to Advanced Technology (Physics Research and Technology)
Physics of the Zero Point Field and its Applications to Advanced Technology (Physics Research and Technology) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery
The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery 2.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang 4.12 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Machine Learning: 4 Books in 1: A Complete Overview for Beginners to Master the Basics of Python Programming and Understand How to Build Artificial Intelligence Through Data Science
Machine Learning: 4 Books in 1: A Complete Overview for Beginners to Master the Basics of Python Programming and Understand How to Build Artificial Intelligence Through Data Science 4.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness 3.47 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future 4.02 avg rating — 450 ratings
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The Great Orm of Loch Ness
The Great Orm of Loch Ness 3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Inside Interesting Integrals (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
Inside Interesting Integrals (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) 4.58 avg rating — 77 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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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by: Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
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The Physics of Star Trek
The Physics of Star Trek 3.85 avg rating — 6,094 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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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution 3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Papyrus
Papyrus 3.62 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Monsters of Loch Ness
The Monsters of Loch Ness 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet 4.06 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
by: Henry Gee
3.75 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex 4.06 avg rating — 3,622 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 746 ratings
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In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents
In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents 4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future
The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future 3.80 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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La evolución del deseo
La evolución del deseo 4.16 avg rating — 3,898 ratings
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
Imagine: How Creativity Works 3.97 avg rating — 51,929 ratings
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms 3.92 avg rating — 2,704 ratings
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Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth 4.13 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Supernature
Supernature 4.10 avg rating — 700 ratings
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How We Decide
How We Decide 3.84 avg rating — 41,298 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process 4.10 avg rating — 10,017 ratings
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Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills
Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills 4.14 avg rating — 383 ratings
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The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects
The Nature of Things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects 4.02 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature 4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings
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