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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Robert Macfarlane

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Why We Lie

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Crisis in the Red Zone

Richard Preston

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A World Appears

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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

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Sing Like Fish

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The Soul of an Octopus

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The Ride of Her Life

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Why Do We Exist?

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The Light Eaters

Zoë Schlanger

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Behave

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An Immense World

Ed Yong

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The Brain

David Eagleman

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

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The Sleepless Ape

David R. Samson

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How Space Works

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The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

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Beyond the Quantum

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The Echoing Universe

Dr. Emma Chapman

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Breath

James Nestor

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

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Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Something Deeply Hidden

Sean Carroll

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Steve Brusatte

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Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

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How the Brain Works

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The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson

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American Wolf

Nate Blakeslee

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The Elephant Whisperer

Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

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World of Wonders

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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On the Origin of Time

Thomas Hertog

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Where the Water Goes

David Owen

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The Edge of Space-Time

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Time's Second Arrow

Robert M. Hazen & Michael L. Wong

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The Story of Birds

Steve Brusatte

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Being You

Anil Seth

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Eager

Ben Goldfarb

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Factfulness

Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund & Ola Rosling

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Junglekeeper

Paul Rosolie

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Peptide Protocols

William A. Seeds

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The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel

Manly P. Hall

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The Life of the Cosmos

Lee Smolin

Astronomy
Birds of Alabama Field Guide

Stan Tekiela

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Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]

Yuval Noah Harari

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The Simulation Hypothesis

Rizwan Virk

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Anatomy 101

Kevin Langford

Life Sciences
Microbiology

OpenStax

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Anatomy & Physiology All-in-One For Dummies (+ Chapter Quizzes Online)

Erin Odya

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The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

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Becoming Wild

Carl Safina

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Operation Paperclip

Annie Jacobsen

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Reality Is Not What It Seems

Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell & Erica Segre

Physics
Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Stephen Hawking

Astronomy
Apollo 11

David Whitehouse

Science History
Birds Up Close

Lorna Gibson

Nature
The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Life Sciences
Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Life Sciences
The Tiger

John Vaillant

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The Invention of Nature

Andrea Wulf

Nature
The Mercy of the Sky

Holly Bailey

Nature
Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

Nature
How Not to Be Wrong

Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematics
The Ghost Map

Steven Johnson

Science History
Free Will

Sam Harris

Science & Nature
American Buffalo

Steven Rinella

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Original Sin

Kathryn Paige Harden

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The Power of Life

Jessica Riskin

Biology
The Finest Hours

Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman

Nature
What If We Get It Right?

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

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The Dark Frontier

Jeffrey Marlow

Earth Sciences
Zero

Charles Seife

Mathematics
Life on the Edge

Johnjoe McFadden & Jim Al-Khalili

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A Brief History of Intelligence

Max S. Bennett

Life Sciences
What Is Real?

Adam Becker

Physics
Fatal Forecast

Michael J. Tougias

Nature
Gulp

Mary Roach

Life Sciences
The Case Against Reality

Donald Hoffman

Science & Nature
Shape

Jordan Ellenberg

Mathematics
Ebola

David Quammen

Life Sciences
Cycles of Time

Roger Penrose

Physics
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Nature
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality

Manjit Kumar

Physics
Moondust

Andrew Smith

Astronomy
Trees

Alastair Fitter

Nature
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

Adam Rutherford & Hannah Fry

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The Science of Star Trek

Mark Brake

Science Reference
Electrical Code Drill Book

Joshua Bero

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The Invention of Science

David Wootton

Science History
Living on Earth

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Life Sciences
The Physics of Life

Adrian Bejan

Science & Nature
Unequal

Eugenia Cheng

Mathematics
Organic Chemistry II For Dummies

John T. Moore & Richard H. Langley

Chemistry
Radio Propagation and Antennas

Steve Cerwin

Science & Nature
Plant Spirit Shamanism

Ross Heaven, Howard G. Charing & Pablo Amaringo

Nature
Relativity

Albert Einstein

Physics
Know the Animals

Reigo Reinmets

Nature
Extreme Insects

Richard Jones

Nature
Undeniable

Douglas Axe

Science & Nature
Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature

Ernst Haeckel

Biology

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astronomy

Robert Macfarlane

Nature

David Livingstone Smith

Life Sciences

Richard Preston

Life Sciences

Michael Pollan

Science & Nature

Yuval Noah Harari

Life Sciences

Amorina Kingdon

Biology

Sy Montgomery

Nature

Elizabeth Letts

Nature

Hakeem Oluseyi & Nils Johnson-Shelton

Physics

Zoë Schlanger

Life Sciences

Robert M. Sapolsky

Biology

Ed Yong

Nature

David Eagleman

Life Sciences

Rebecca Skloot

Biology

David R. Samson

Life Sciences

DK

Astronomy

James Rebanks

Nature

Antony Valentini

Physics

Dr. Emma Chapman

Astronomy

James Nestor

Life Sciences

Amy Tan

Nature

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Nature

Sean Carroll

Physics

Steve Brusatte

Science & Nature

Rachel Carson

Nature

DK

Life Sciences

Kirk Wallace Johnson

Nature

Nate Blakeslee

Nature

Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

Nature

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Nature

Thomas Hertog

Physics

David Owen

Earth Sciences

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Astronomy

Robert M. Hazen & Michael L. Wong

Physics

Steve Brusatte

Life Sciences

Anil Seth

Science & Nature

Ben Goldfarb

Nature

Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund & Ola Rosling

Science & Nature

Paul Rosolie