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IainThe book that set me down the career of science and engineering, Bill Bryson delivers some of the most eloquent and articulate explanations about the natural world I've ever seen in a pop science book. He also has the rare ability to humanize the naturalists and scientists who uncovered these explanations by showing their eccentricities, their pettiness, and their vulnerabilities which reveal the complex and messy process that discoveries are made.

IainMy favorite Victorian novel. Eliot has an almost omnscient insight into human nature and an infinite patience for its weaknesses. Her observations ranging from scholaraship to sexuality are as relevant and often hilarious.

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