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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
by Mary Roach
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
by George B Dyson
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The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions
by Kenji Kawakami
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Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life
by Massimo Pigliucci
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Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
by Adam Bly
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
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The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2012: The Best American Science and Nature Writing
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Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey
by Jim Reed
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
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