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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson ,

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Annals of the Former World
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Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
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Immune

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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh

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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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The Story of Earth

By Robert M. Hazen ,

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National Geographic Infographics
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National Geographic Infographics

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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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Genius

By James Gleick ,

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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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The Rational Optimist

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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook: A Companion to the Best-selling Job-Hunting Book in the World
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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook

By Richard N. Bolles , Katharine Brooks ,

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Climbing Mount Improbable
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Climbing Mount Improbable

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The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil's Element
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The Shocking History of Phosphorus

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Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
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Where Song Began

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The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
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The Primacy of Doubt

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The Oxford History of Western Music
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The Oxford History of Western Music

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Conversations With Economists: New Classical Economists and Opponents Speak Out on the Current Controversy in Macroeconomics
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Conversations With Economists

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The Romantic Generation
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The Romantic Generation

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Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time
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Strange Matters

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The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics
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The Biggest Number in the World

By David Darling , Agnijo Banerjee ,

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The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On
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The Irrationals

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mBraining: Using your multiple brains to do cool stuff
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mBraining

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You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
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You Are Not So Smart

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