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Squids Will be Squids

What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
The World Without Us
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
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Naming nature

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The Big Questions

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Mind's Eye
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
The Most Human Human
Do Sparrows Like Bach?: The Strange and Wonderful Things that Are Discovered When Scientists Break Free
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Science secrets
Annoying
The Human Body
The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions
The Geeks' Guide to World Domination: Be Afraid, Beautiful People
How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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World in the Balance

Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!: The Science Scoop on More Than 30 Terrifying Phenomena!
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Homo Mysterious

Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough
Mad science
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind
Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
Broken Elements
The Mismeasure of Man
THE PANDA'S THUMB: More Refelctions in Natural History
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
The Serpent's Promise
Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
The Chemistry of Alchemy
This is Improbable Too - Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research
Riveted
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
How We Got to Now
Zoom
Your Atomic Self
Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
A Crack in the Edge of the World
Incognito
Hallucinations
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
Atoms Under the Floorboards
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The Story of Western Science

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Packing for Mars
The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
The Planets
A is for Arsenic
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
Suspicious Minds
Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Hair: A Human History
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
The human side of science
Strange Glow
Idiot Brain
Seven Skeletons
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions
A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It
And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling Over Niagara
Fun Science
Mask of the sun
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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