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'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
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Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world
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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal ...
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