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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.36 avg rating — 1,062,330 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 417,304 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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A Brief History of Time
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Origin of Species
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Salt: A World History
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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Big History: The Big Bang, Life On Earth, And The Rise Of Humanity
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Homo Deus: Een kleine geschiedenis van de toekomst
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The Last Days of the Incas
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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3.98 avg rating — 3,354 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.93 avg rating — 52,064 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 88,324 ratings
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.36 avg rating — 50,321 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
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Children of the Ice: Climate and Human Origins
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The Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great (The Cartoon History of the Universe, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 3,501 ratings
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
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4.19 avg rating — 10,992 ratings
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The Little Book of Big History
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3.68 avg rating — 447 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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4.05 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
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Big History and the Future of Humanity
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3.61 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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4.11 avg rating — 5,599 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 9,939 ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
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4.03 avg rating — 10,831 ratings
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The History of Money
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3.91 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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A Little History of the World
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
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Germs, Seeds and Animals: Studies in Ecological History
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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4.09 avg rating — 1,449 ratings
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
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4.27 avg rating — 982 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 23,065 ratings
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Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
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3.97 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
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3.91 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Energy and Civilization: A History
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4.10 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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3.98 avg rating — 30,283 ratings
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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
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4.09 avg rating — 7,668 ratings
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
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4.13 avg rating — 532 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,450 ratings
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
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3.97 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
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4.07 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
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3.71 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present
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3.84 avg rating — 927 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
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4.35 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.14 avg rating — 6,981 ratings
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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3.77 avg rating — 10,586 ratings
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The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume I
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Mutual Aid: a factor of evolution
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Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500–1830
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The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
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4.23 avg rating — 2,878 ratings
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.97 avg rating — 4,254 ratings
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
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3.96 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Energy: A Human History
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3.75 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
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4.08 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.03 avg rating — 26,672 ratings
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
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People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History
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Why We Run: A Natural History
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The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
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3.76 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
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Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
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4.12 avg rating — 3,974 ratings
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
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3.63 avg rating — 750 ratings
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Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer
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4.10 avg rating — 768 ratings
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The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law
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4.09 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos
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4.27 avg rating — 244 ratings
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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4.11 avg rating — 14,727 ratings
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The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
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3.84 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
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Rough Waters: Alaska to Oregon
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The Story of Humanity: Ecology & Consequence
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension
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T Theory Says: Who Owns Our Universe (Trillion Theory, # 4)
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Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
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The Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
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Black Holes Built Our Cosmos (Trillion Theory, # 3)
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Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
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More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want
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Trillion Years Universe Theory (2)
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Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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