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Science Non-Fiction for the Non-Specialist

Science is exciting. Science is fun. Science is necessary. Science is true whether you believe in it or not. Here are 70 books geared to the general reader that demonstrate, without dumbing down the material, why the preceding statements are all correct.
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Accessory to War (Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang)
Accessory to War
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Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil Degrasse Tyson)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
The Beginnings of Western Science (David C. Lindberg)
The Beginnings of Western Science
3
David C. Lindberg
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine (Roy Porter)
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
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Roy Porter
Brief Answers to Big Questions (Stephen Hawking)
Brief Answers to Big Questions
5
Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time
6
Stephen Hawking
Chaos (James Gleick)
Chaos
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James Gleick
Circles (James Burke)
Circles
8
James Burke
Connections (Burke)
Connections
9
Burke
The Cosmic Code (Heinz Pagels)
The Cosmic Code
10
Heinz Pagels
The Cosmic Connection (Carl Sagan)
The Cosmic Connection
11
Carl Sagan
Cosmic Queries (Neil Degrasse Tyson)
Cosmic Queries
12
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Cosmos
13
Carl Sagan
Dark Matter and Dark Energy (Clegg)
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
14
Clegg
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (Sheree Renee Thomas)
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora
15
Sheree Renee Thomas
The Day the Universe Changed (Burke)
The Day the Universe Changed
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Burke
The Dinosaur Heresies (Robert Bakker)
The Dinosaur Heresies
17
Robert Bakker
The Double Helix (James Watson)
The Double Helix
18
James Watson
The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene)
The Elegant Universe
19
Brian Greene
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
20
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Evolution (Barton)
Evolution
21
Barton
Factfulness (Hans Rosling)
Factfulness
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Hans Rosling
Footsteps (Bruce Norman)
Footsteps
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Bruce Norman
Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt)
Freakonomics
24
Steven D. Levitt
Future Shock (Toffler Alvin)
Future Shock
25
Toffler Alvin
Galileo's Daughter (Dava Sobel)
Galileo's Daughter
26
Dava Sobel
The Gene (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Gene
27
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Dava Sobel)
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Dava Sobel
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
29
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gods, Graves, & Scholars (Ceram)
Gods, Graves, & Scholars
30
Ceram
The Great Mortality (John Kelly)
The Great Mortality
31
John Kelly
The Great Warming (Brian Fagan)
The Great Warming
32
Brian Fagan
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Yuval Noah Harari)
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
33
Yuval Noah Harari
Hubble in Space (Amherst Media)
Hubble in Space
34
Amherst Media
The Hubble Wars (Eric J. Chaisson)
The Hubble Wars
35
Eric J. Chaisson
Ideas and Opinions
Ideas and Opinions
36
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
37
Rebecca Skloot
In the Shadow of the Bomb (Schweber)
In the Shadow of the Bomb
38
Schweber
Influenza (Jeremy Brown)
Influenza
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Jeremy Brown
Is Anyone Out There? the Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Frank Drake)
Is Anyone Out There? the Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
40
Frank Drake
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