Category Archives: History

  • The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

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  • Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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  • The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

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  • ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic

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  • Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

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  • An Edible History of Humanity

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  • Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig

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  • Finding Sanity: John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder

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  • Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

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  • Carrie Bengston Reviews Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

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  • Feathers: Not Just for Flying

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  • The Morbid Anatomy Anthology

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  • The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist

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  • Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

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  • Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

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  • Playthings

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  • The Memory Code

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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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  • A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life

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  • The Big Splat: or How Our Moon Came to Be

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  • The Hunt for Vulcan: …And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

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  • Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer

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  • The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

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  • The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

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  • The Planets

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  • Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

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  • The Gene: An Intimate History

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  • When Computing Got Personal: A history of the desktop computer

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  • Crane Boy

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  • We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program

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  • The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

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  • Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

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  • The Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Cultural Context

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  • The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

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  • The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales

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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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  • The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

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  • States of Mind: Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness

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  • How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

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  • Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

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  • Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

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  • Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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  • The Chemistry of Fragrances: From Perfumer to Consumer

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  • Kevin Orrman-Rossiter Reviews Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

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  • Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

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  • Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

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  • Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

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  • Science: A Four Thousand Year History

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  • Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World

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  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

    2 February 26, 2016 standard