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Gathering Moss
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A Literary Companion to Science
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Analysis, Manifolds and Physics Revised Edition
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Ghost Wars
Steve Coll
The Opposite of Loneliness
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Roger Crowley
Changes in the Land, Revised Edition
William Cronon
The Rapture of Canaan
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Bold
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An Appetite for Wonder
Richard Dawkins
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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The Right Stuff
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Narrative Economics
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The Case for Space
Robert Zubrin
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