Popular Science for Smarties
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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Frans de Waal
3.97 avg rating — 16,185 ratings 102. 
Supercooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour {Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed}
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3.84 avg rating — 401 ratings 
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
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António Damásio
4.01 avg rating — 4,035 ratings 104. 
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.18 avg rating — 5,766 ratings 107. 
Ordinary Geniuses: Max Delbruck, George Gamow, and the Origins of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology
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4.04 avg rating — 105 ratings 108. 
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
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Gino Segrè
3.98 avg rating — 404 ratings 109. 
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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4.31 avg rating — 55,179 ratings 
111. 
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Carl Sagan
4.19 avg rating — 21,187 ratings 112. 
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating — 5,763 ratings 113. 
The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days 3.84 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg
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David C. Cassidy
4.09 avg rating — 93 ratings 117. 
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches 4.13 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
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Jeff Howe
3.84 avg rating — 2,322 ratings 
124. 
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
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4.15 avg rating — 23,339 ratings 125. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 126. 
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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John Derbyshire
4.15 avg rating — 3,733 ratings 
130. 
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human 4.15 avg rating — 10,815 ratings
131. 
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
by:
Daniel H. Pink
3.92 avg rating — 29,508 ratings