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Squids Will be Squids

Squids Will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables
  • Jon Scieszka
  • Lane Smith
#3
What the nose knows
What the nose knows
  • Avery N. Gilbert
#4
The World Without Us
The World Without Us
  • Alan Weisman
#5
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
  • Jena Pincott
#6
Guns, Germs and Steel
Guns, Germs and Steel
  • Jared M. Diamond
#7
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Naming nature

Naming nature : the clash between instinct and science
  • Carol Kaesuk Yoon
#8
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The Big Questions

The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
  • Steven E. Landsburg
#9
The Disappearing Spoon
The Disappearing Spoon
  • Sam Kean
#10
The Mind's Eye
The Mind's Eye
  • Oliver Sacks
#11
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
  • Mike Brown
  • Ryan Gesell
#12
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
  • Guy Deutscher
#13
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The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics

The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
  • James Kakalios
#14
The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
  • Gregory Benford
#15
The Most Human Human
The Most Human Human
  • Brian Christian
#16
Do Sparrows Like Bach?: The Strange and Wonderful Things that Are Discovered When Scientists Break Free
Do Sparrows Like Bach?: The Strange and Wonderful Things that Are Discovered When Scientists Break Free
    #17
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    • Bill Bryson
    #18
    The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide
    The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide
    • Richard A. Muller
    #19
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    • Carl Sagan
    #20
    Science secrets
    Science secrets
    • Alberto A. Martinez
    #21
    Annoying
    Annoying
    • Joe Palca
    #22
    The Human Body
    The Human Body
    • Isaac Asimov
    #23
    The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions
    The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions
    • Isaac Asimov
    #24
    The Geeks' Guide to World Domination: Be Afraid, Beautiful People
    The Geeks' Guide to World Domination: Be Afraid, Beautiful People
    • Garth Sundem
    #25
    How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel
    How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel
    • Brian Clegg
    #27
    Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
    Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
    • John Grant
    #28
    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • James Gleick
    #29
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    World in the Balance

    World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement
    • Robert P. Crease
    #30
    Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World
    Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World
    • Rob Brooks
    #31
    The violinist's thumb
    The violinist's thumb
    • Sam Kean
    #32
    Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on More Than 30 Terrifying Phenomena!
    Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on More Than 30 Terrifying Phenomena!
    • Glenn Murphy
    #33
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    Homo Mysterious

    Homo Mysterious: Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
    • David Philip Barash
    #34
    Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
    Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
    • Matt Kaplan
    #35
    Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
    Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
    • John Freely
    #36
    Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers
    Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers
    • John J. Ross
    #37
    Mad science
    Mad science
    • Randy Alfred
    #38
    The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
    The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
    • Neil Shubin
    #39
    Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things
    Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things
    • John Grant
    #40
    Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
    Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
    • Marlene Zuk
    #41
    My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
    My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
    • Brian Switek
    #42
    Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind
    Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind
    • Brian Clegg
    #43
    Abominable science!
    Abominable science!
    • Daniel Loxton
    #44
    The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
    The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
    • Dimitra Papagianni
    • Michael A. Morse
    #45
    Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
    Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
    • Donald C. Johanson
    #46
    Broken Elements
    Broken Elements
    • Mia Marshall
    #47
    The Mismeasure of Man
    The Mismeasure of Man
    • Stephen Jay Gould
    #48
    THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
    THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
    • Stephen Jay Gould
    #49
    Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
    Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
    • Stephen Jay Gould
    #50
    Gulp
    Gulp
    • Mary Roach
    #51
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
    • Sam Kean
    #52
    Is that a fact?
    Is that a fact?
    • Joe Schwarcz
    #53
    The Serpent's Promise
    The Serpent's Promise
    • Steve Jones
    #54
    Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
    Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
    • Scott Weems
    #55
    The Chemistry of Alchemy
    The Chemistry of Alchemy
    • Cathy Cobb
    • Monty L. Fetterolf
    • Harold Goldwhite
    #56
    This is Improbable Too - Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research
    This is Improbable Too - Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research
    • Marc Abrahams
    #57
    Riveted
    Riveted
    • Jim Davies
    #58
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
    • Randall Munroe
    #59
    How We Got to Now
    How We Got to Now
    • Steven Johnson
    #60
    Zoom
    Zoom
    • Bob Berman
    #61
    Your Atomic Self
    Your Atomic Self
    • Curt Stager
    #62
    Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
    Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
    • Keiron Pim
    #63
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    A Crack in the Edge of the World

    A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906
    • Simon Winchester
    #64
    Incognito
    Incognito
    • David Eagleman
    • Catarina F. Almeida (Translator)
    #65
    Hallucinations
    Hallucinations
    • Oliver Sacks
    #66
    Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
    Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
    • Mark Miodownik
    #67
    Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
    Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
    • Simon Quellen Field
    #68
    Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society
    Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society
    • Bill Bryson
    #69
    Atoms Under the Floorboards
    Atoms Under the Floorboards
    • Chris Woodford
    #70
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    The Story of Western Science

    The Story of Western Science
    • Susan Wise Bauer
    #71
    The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
    The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
    • Amy Stewart
    #72
    Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
    Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
    • Wendy Williams
    #73
    Packing for Mars
    Packing for Mars
    • Mary Roach
    #74
    The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
    The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
    • Dan Falk
    #75
    The Planets
    The Planets
    • Dava Sobel
    #76
    A is for Arsenic
    A is for Arsenic
    • Kathryn Harkup
    #77
    The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
    The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
    • Ian Tattersall
    #78
    Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
    Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
      #79
      Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
      Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
      • Matt Kaplan
      #80
      Suspicious Minds
      Suspicious Minds
      • Rob Brotherton
      #81
      Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
      Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
      • Brian Clegg
      #82
      A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
      A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
      • Bill Mesler
      • H. James Cleaves II
      #83
      Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
      Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
      • Mary Roach
      #84
      Hair: A Human History
      Hair: A Human History
      • Kurt Stenn
      #85
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      Spook

      Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
      • Mary Roach
      #86
      The human side of science
      The human side of science
      • Arthur W. Wiggins
      #87
      Strange Glow
      Strange Glow
      • Timothy J. Jorgensen
      #88
      Idiot Brain
      Idiot Brain
      • Dean Burnett
      #89
      Seven Skeletons
      Seven Skeletons
      • Lydia Pyne
      #90
      Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
      Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
      • Brian Christian
      • Tom Griffiths
      #91
      A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
      A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
      • Mark Thompson
      #92
      Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
      Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
      • Brian Clegg
      #93
      Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
      Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
      • John McWhorter
      #94
      Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions
      Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions
      • Andy Brunning
      #95
      A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
      A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
      • Gill Paul
      #96
      Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
      Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
      • Bill Schutt
      #97
      The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
      The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
      • Scott Bembenek
      #98
      And Then You're Dead
      And Then You're Dead
      • Cody Cassidy
      #99
      Fun Science
      Fun Science
      • Charlie McDonnell
      #100
      Mask of the sun
      Mask of the sun
      • John Dvorak
      #101
      Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
      Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
      • Sam Kean
      #102
      A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
      A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
      • Adam Rutherford