Category Archives: History

  • After the Map: Cartography, Navigation and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century

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  • The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World

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  • The Vaccine Race: How scientists used human cells to combat killer viruses

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  • The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

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  • The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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  • Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci

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  • Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

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  • Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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  • Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts

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  • Plucked: A History of Hair Removal

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  • St. Clair: A Nineteenth-century Coal Town’s Experience with Disaster-prone Industry

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  • Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885

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  • Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

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  • Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science

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  • Australia in Space: A History of a Nation’s Involvement

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  • Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

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  • How Language Began: The story of humanity’s greatest invention

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  • Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

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  • Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

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  • The Other Einstein: A Novel

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  • In the Light of Science: Our Ancient Quest for Knowledge and the Measure of Modern Physics

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  • The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days

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  • I, Humanity

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  • Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You

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  • Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

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  • Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

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  • The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us

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  • Does Science Need a Global Language?: English and the future of research

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  • The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

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  • The Last Alchemist in Paris: And other curious tales from chemistry

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  • Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake

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  • Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

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  • Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer

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  • Carrie Bengston Reviews The Emperor of all Maladies – A Biography of Cancer

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  • The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

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  • The Secret Lives of Colour

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  • The New Math: A Political History

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  • Radio Astronomer: John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe

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  • Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science

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  • Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953

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  • Confronting Contagion: Our Evolving Understanding of Disease

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  • The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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  • The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science

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  • Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

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  • Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery

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  • 4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars

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  • The Oxford Illustrated History of Science

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  • Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

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  • Shackleton’s Journey

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  • The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851

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