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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky

The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath

The Saturn System: Through the Eyes of Cassini

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake

The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline

Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution

Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science

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New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before: 50 maps of our physical, cultural and political world
by Alastair Bonnett

Release date: Oct 26, 2017

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How We Eat with Our Eyes and Think with Our Stomachs by Melanie Mühl

How We Eat with Our Eyes and Think with Our Stomachs: The Hidden Influences That Shape Your Eating Habits
by Melanie Mühl, Diana von Kopp

Release date: Nov 01, 2017

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The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating
by Anthony Warner

Release date: Jan 09, 2018

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