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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Broadway
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Everything and More: A compact history of infinity by David Foster Wallace, W. W. Norton
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The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Knopf
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Monster of God by David Quammen, W. W. Norton
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Sex, Time, and Power by Leonard Shlain, Viking/Penguin
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 edited by Richard Dawkins and Tim Folger, Houghton Mifflin
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Alpha and Omega by Charles Seife, Viking/Penguin
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The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein, Random House
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The Long Summer by Brian Fagan, Basic Books
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The Science of Good and Evil by Michael Shermer, Times Books/Henry Holt
Information supplied by Powell鈥檚, Portland, Oregon (fax 001 503 228 4631), for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in the US within the past year.
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