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1

The Aye-Aye and I

by Gerald Durrell

281 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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2

Astonishing Animals: Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit

by Tim Flannery

97 members

1 review

4.2

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3

Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement

by Kenneth Laws

40 members

1 review

½ 3.3

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4

100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod

by Scott Christianson

246 members

23 reviews

3.2

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5

Impact Jupiter : The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

by David H. Levy

18 members

4

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6

Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact

by David H. Levy

30 members

3.9

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7

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

by David Foster Wallace

1,563 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

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8

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

by Sherwin B. Nuland

259 members

6 reviews

3.8

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9

Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

502 members

16 reviews

4.1

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10

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

by David Leavitt

682 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

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11

Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science

by Lawrence M. Krauss

419 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

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12

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

11,168 members

120 reviews

½ 4.3

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13

Ancestral Passions

by Virginia Morell

150 members

1 review

4.2

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14

The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species

by Scott Weidensaul

195 members

8 reviews

½ 4.4

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15

Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing

by Margaret Livingstone

217 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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16

Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space

by John W. Young

71 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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17

Dr. Fisher's Life on the Ark: Green Alligators, Bushman, and Other "Hare-Raising" Tales from America's Most Popular Zoo

by Lester E. Fisher

4 members

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18

In Search of Ancient Astronomies

123 members

½ 3.7

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19

Other Worlds: The Solar System And Beyond

by James Trefil

151 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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20

The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It

by Robert Zimmerman

69 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

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21

The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives

by Mauricio Anton

123 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

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22

The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science

by Julie Des Jardins

114 members

2 reviews

4

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23

NASA and the Exploration of Space

by Roger Launius

56 members

1 review

½ 3.3

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24

Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest

by J. McKim Malville

88 members

3

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25

Don't Think About Monkeys. Extraordinary Stories Written by People with Tourette Syndrome

by Adam Ward Seligman

19 members

3

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26

The River of Consciousness

by Oliver Sacks

637 members

14 reviews

3.8

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27

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

by Rebecca Goldstein

791 members

21 reviews

3.8

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28

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

804 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

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29

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

by Brenda Maddox

611 members

13 reviews

4

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30

Maria Mitchell: The Soul of an Astronomer

by Beatrice Gormley

86 members

½ 4.5

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31

Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies

32 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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32

Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

by Tyson Neil deGrasse

235 members

6 reviews

4

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33

Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia

by Michael Cabbage

77 members

2 reviews

3.9

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34

Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission

by Andrew Mishkin

81 members

4.2

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35

Reaching for the Moon

380 members

18 reviews

4.2

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36

Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt

by Mary Kay Carson

132 members

5 reviews

½ 4.5

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37

The Octopus Scientists: Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk

by Sy Montgomery

154 members

13 reviews

4.2

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38

Condor Comeback (Scientists in the Field Series)

by Sy Montgomery

35 members

4 reviews

4.2

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39

Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar

100 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

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40

Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives

by Elizabeth Rusch

170 members

18 reviews

4.2

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41

Emi and the Rhino Scientist

by Mary Kay Carson

101 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

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42

Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest

by Sy Montgomery

151 members

3 reviews

3.8

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43

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction

by David Quammen

1,494 members

21 reviews

½ 4.4

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44

The Hoiho: New Zealand's yellow-eyed penguin

by Adele Vernon

15 members

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45

340 members

9 reviews

4

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46

Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink

by Jane Goodall

344 members

6 reviews

3.9

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47

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

by Kermit Pattison

291 members

10 reviews

4.1

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48

To Pluto and Beyond

by Elaine Scott

17 members

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49

Mars and the Search for Life

by Elaine Scott

22 members

1 review

4

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50

God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time

79 members

1 review

4

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51

Hubble Deep Field: How a Photo Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Universe (Captured Science History)

3 members

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52

The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugine Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right

89 members

1 review

3.8

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53

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

876 members

35 reviews

4.1

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54

Rosalind Franklin and DNA

156 members

4 reviews

3.9

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55

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

188 members

12 reviews

4.1

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56

Hubble: An Overview of the Space Telescope

by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

3 members

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57

Wild Cats of the World

27 members

4

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58

Impact!: Asteroids and the Science of Saving the World (Scientists in the Field Series)

by Elizabeth Rusch

53 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

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59

Black Holes and Time Warps : Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

by Kip S. Thorne

1,360 members

17 reviews

½ 4.3

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60

The First Three Minutes

by Steven Weinberg

1,403 members

13 reviews

3.8

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61

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

1,526 members

55 reviews

½ 4.3

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62

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record

by Errol Fuller

65 members

4 reviews

3.8

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63

Mammals of New Guinea

by Tim F. Flannery

26 members

4

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64

Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds-On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea

by Tim F. Flannery

332 members

9 reviews

3.9

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65

Fantastic Cats: A Feast of Famed and Fabled Felines

by Desmond Morris

12 members

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66

by Desmond Morris

13 members

1 review

4

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67

by Stefano Zuddi

65 members

½ 4.5

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68

The Cats History of Western Art

by Susan Herbert

62 members

2 reviews

4

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69

Space Telescope

by Franklyn M. Branley

13 members

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70

Bully for Brontosaurus

by Stephen Jay Gould

1,699 members

14 reviews

4

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71

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

by Stephen Jay Gould

815 members

7 reviews

3.8

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72

The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould

821 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

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73

The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

by James Fallon

296 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

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74

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

by Rebecca Renner

89 members

4 reviews

3.9

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75

Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet

113 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

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76

How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

812 members

36 reviews

4.1

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77

A Street Cat Named Bob and How He Saved My Life

1,566 members

89 reviews

3.9

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78

A History of Women in Astronomy and Space Exploration: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

by Dale DeBakcsy

1 member

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79

The Dalai Lama's Cat

by David Michie

415 members

23 reviews

4

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80

No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman

by Christopher Sykes

343 members

2 reviews

4.2

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