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What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions By Randall Munroe Cover Image
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization By Neil deGrasse Tyson Cover Image
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures By Sabrina Imbler Cover Image
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems By Randall Munroe Cover Image
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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022 By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Jaime Green Cover Image
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos By Jaime Green Cover Image
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A Short History of Nearly Everything By Bill Bryson Cover Image
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Cover Image
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity By Toby Ord Cover Image
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between By Joseph Osmundson Cover Image
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow By Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella (With), Jay Novella (With) Cover Image
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher By Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands Cover Image
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