Category Archives: History

  • American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

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  • Apollo 11: The Inside Story

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  • Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?

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  • The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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  • Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe

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  • Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color

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  • Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

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  • The Big Ones: How natural disasters have shaped us (and what we can do about them)

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  • The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

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  • Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time

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  • The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon

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  • The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight

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  • Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication

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  • Origins: How the Earth made us

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  • Heart: A history

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  • Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to Truth

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  • The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

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  • Ways of Knowing – A New History of Science, Technology & Medicine

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  • Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

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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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  • Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

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  • Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

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  • The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

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  • Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry

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  • The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

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  • Questioning Nature: British Women’s Scientific Writing & Literary Originality, 1750-1830

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  • Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar

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  • The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

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  • Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

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  • Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building

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  • A Lab of One’s Own: Science and suffrage in the first world war

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  • Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World

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  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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  • Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

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  • Life on Display: Revolutionizing US museums of science and natural history in the twentieth century

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  • The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

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  • Dorothea’s War: The Diaries of a First World War Nurse

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  • The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment

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  • Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and literature in the seventeenth century

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  • Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past

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  • The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies

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  • The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government’s Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure

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  • Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World

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  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

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  • Broad band: The Untold story of the woman who made the internet

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  • Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved

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  • The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

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  • Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

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  • Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

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  • The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

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