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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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The Selfish Gene
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics 4.22 avg rating โ€” 2,937 ratings
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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A History of ฯ€
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Competing on Analytics
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
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e: the Story of a Number
e: the Story of a Number
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The Colossal Book of Mathematics
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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Gรถdel's Proof
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain 4.20 avg rating โ€” 597 ratings
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
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An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World 4.22 avg rating โ€” 438 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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The Undercover Economist
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A New Kind of Science
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells
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Babbitt
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The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
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Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations 3.78 avg rating โ€” 7,139 ratings
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I Am a Strange Loop
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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception 3.51 avg rating โ€” 2,194 ratings
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The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
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A Mathematician's Apology
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The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
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Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
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Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
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The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
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