Category Archives: History

  • Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes

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  • The Mysterious Universe

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  • Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics

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  • The New York Times Book of Science: More than 150 Years of Groundbreaking Scientific Coverage

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  • Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer

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  • Pluto’s Secret: An Icy World’s Tale of Discovery

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  • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Scott Huler

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  • Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel

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  • Linden Ashcroft Reviews Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

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  • Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

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  • Elegance in Science: The Beauty of Simplicity

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  • Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

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  • The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

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  • The Composition of Kepler’s Astronomia nova

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  • Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

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  • The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician

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  • Edison: A Life of Invention

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  • Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism

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  • The Snowflake: Winter’s Frozen Artistry

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  • Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math

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  • Trash Talk: Moving toward a Zero-Waste World

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  • Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart

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  • The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

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  • Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

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  • On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight

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  • On a Piece of Chalk

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  • Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History

    0 December 3, 2015 standard

  • My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir

    0 November 25, 2015 standard

  • The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment

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  • What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution

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  • The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable-and How We Can Get There

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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    0 November 11, 2015 standard

  • Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway

    0 November 4, 2015 standard

  • Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

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  • Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

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  • The Red Canary: The Story of the First Genetically Engineered Animal

    0 October 23, 2015 standard

  • The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

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  • The Water Book: The extraordinary story of our most ordinary substance

    0 October 19, 2015 standard

  • Rebel Science

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  • Rosalie Wodecki Reviews Bodies of Light

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  • 10 Great Books on the History of Medicine (#histmed)

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  • House Guests, House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home

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  • Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis

    0 September 13, 2015 standard

  • The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table’s Shadow Side

    0 September 5, 2015 standard

  • Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton’s Masterpiece

    0 August 28, 2015 standard

  • The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past

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  • NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

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  • Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers

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  • The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination

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