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1

Astonishing Animals: Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit

by Tim Flannery

94 members

1 review

4.2

Member: al.vick

2

Sorry I Barfed on Your Bed (and Other Heartwarming Letters from Kitty)

by Jeremy Greenberg

109 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: al.vick

3

The Dalai Lama's Cat

by David Michie

394 members

22 reviews

4

Member: al.vick

4

by Richard Surman

28 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: al.vick

5

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

by Madeleine K. Albright

814 members

22 reviews

4

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6

by Todd McCaffrey

256 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: al.vick

7

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

5,413 members

36 reviews

½ 4.6

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8

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

4,431 members

15 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: al.vick

9

Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

by Nancy Marie Brown

288 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

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10

The Aye-Aye and I

by Gerald Durrell

276 members

12 reviews

3.8

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11

A Zoo in My Luggage

by Gerald Durrell

916 members

15 reviews

3.9

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12

Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement

by Kenneth Laws

40 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: al.vick

13

100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod

by Scott Christianson

235 members

23 reviews

3

Member: al.vick

14

Impact Jupiter : The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

by David H. Levy

18 members

4

Member: al.vick

15

Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact

by David H. Levy

28 members

3.9

Member: al.vick

16

Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?

by Michael Shermer

259 members

3 reviews

4.1

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17

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

by David Foster Wallace

1,520 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

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18

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

by Sherwin B. Nuland

252 members

6 reviews

3.8

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19

Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

486 members

16 reviews

4.1

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20

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

by David Leavitt

662 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

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21

Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science

by Lawrence M. Krauss

403 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

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22

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

10,837 members

119 reviews

½ 4.3

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23

Ancestral Passions

by Virginia Morell

147 members

1 review

4.2

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24

An Atlas of Roman Britain

55 members

½ 4.5

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25

Absolut Sequel.: The Absolut Advertising Story Continues

by Richard W. Lewis

49 members

1 review

½ 4.4

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26

The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species

by Scott Weidensaul

192 members

8 reviews

½ 4.4

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27

by Leonard Nimoy

304 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

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28

Sunsets, Twilights, and Evening Skies

31 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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29

Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing

by Margaret Livingstone

213 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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30

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 17

by Rosamund Kidman Cox

32 members

½ 4.7

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31

by Simon Tofield

687 members

29 reviews

4.1

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32

The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece

by Carola Hicks

143 members

7 reviews

4.1

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33

Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space

by John W. Young

67 members

2 reviews

½ 4.6

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34

Dr. Fisher's Life on the Ark: Green Alligators, Bushman, and Other "Hare-Raising" Tales from America's Most Popular Zoo and Around the World

by Lester E. Fisher

3 members

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35

Simon's Cat: Beyond The Fence

by Simon Tofield

297 members

11 reviews

4.2

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36

Simon's Cat in Kitten Chaos

by Simon Tofield

247 members

21 reviews

½ 4.5

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37

Simon's Cat Off to the Vet . . . and Other Cat-astrophes

by Simon Tofield

82 members

19 reviews

4.2

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38

In Search of Ancient Astronomies

118 members

½ 3.6

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39

by David Howarth

1,520 members

26 reviews

3.9

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40

Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them

by Nancy Marie Brown

250 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: al.vick

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November 2013
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