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An Immense World

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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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The Anxious Generation

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Not the End of the World

By Hannah Ritchie,

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Father Time

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Midnight in Chernobyl

By Adam Higginbotham,

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The Invention of Nature

By Andrea Wulf,

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

By Bill Gates,

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By James C. Scott,

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The Master and His Emissary

By Iain McGilchrist,

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The Ghost Map

By Steven Johnson,

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The WEIRDest People in the World

By Joseph Henrich,

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Evolution in Four Dimensions

By Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb, Anna Zeligowski

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By James R. Doty,

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The Voyage of the Beagle

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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My Family and Other Animals

By Gerald Durrell,

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Stiff

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Breath

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BANNED - The Real Anthony Fauci

By Robert F. Kennedy,

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Your Brain on Art

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Unnatural Causes

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Fire Weather

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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

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This Thing of Darkness

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Why We Sleep

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Immune

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Written in Bone

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Cull of the Wild

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The Drunkard's Walk

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How Data Happened

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The Edge of Sentience

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Imminent

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The Truth about Animals

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A Brief History of Intelligence

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Hope for Cynics

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Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps

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How Life Works

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Every Living Thing

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Fire Weather

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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

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Womb

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The Wrong Stuff

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Superconvergence

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The Art of Explanation

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Our Moon

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Turning to Stone

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The Bastard Brigade

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The Grand Design

By Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow,

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Glacial

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Laika's Window

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The Evolution of Charles Darwin

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Our Green Heart

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The Story is in Our Bones

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The Catalyst

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Pure Adulteration

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The Shetland Way

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God Is Watching You

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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

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The Book of Hope

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