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An Alchemy of Mind: The marvel and mystery of the brain by Diane Ackerman, Scribner
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich, Walker
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The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Knopf
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Mind Wide Open: Your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life by Steven Johnson, Scribner
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Compass: A story of exploration and innovation by Alan Gurney, W. W. Norton
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Evolution鈥檚 Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden, University of California Press
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The Big Year: A tale of man, nature, and fowl obsession by Mark Obmascik, Free Press
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Einstein鈥檚 Cosmos by Michio Kaku, W. W. Norton
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Becoming a Tiger: How baby animals learn to live in the wild by Susan McCarthy, HarperCollins
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Count Down by Steve Olson, Houghton Mifflin
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Books that beget books: Owen Gingerich discovered a world of scholarship by reading the annotated margins of 580 copies of Copernicus鈥檚 revolutionary book that stated that the Earth sailed round the sun, then tracking down the annotators. A rich source for postgrad theses: one is already on the way.