Category Archives: History

  • The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

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  • Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead

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  • Gould’s Book Of Fish

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Edward Dolnick

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  • The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

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  • Designing Information: Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design

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  • The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix

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  • Seven Modern Plagues: and How We Are Causing Them

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  • Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen

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  • Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

    0 October 18, 2014 standard

  • Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Sarah Dry

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  • Seventeen Equations that Changed the World

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Rebecca Stefoff

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  • A Short History of Nearly Everything

    0 October 14, 2014 standard

  • Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

    0 October 11, 2014 standard

  • I am Albert Einstein (Ordinary People Change World)

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  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

    0 October 6, 2014 standard

  • Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space

    0 October 5, 2014 standard

  • Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

    0 October 1, 2014 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews Richard Platt and Mary Platt

    0 October 1, 2014 standard

  • The Book of Universes: Exploring the Outer Limits of the Cosmos

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Philip Ball

    0 September 17, 2014 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews Robert Twigger

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  • Elements of Chemistry, in a New Systematic Order, Containing All the Modern Discoveries

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  • The Third Chimpanzee for Young People: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Tim Low

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  • Breaking the Sheep’s back: The shocking true story of the decline and fall of the Australian wool industry

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  • Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics

    0 August 29, 2014 standard

  • Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries

    0 August 27, 2014 standard

  • The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts

    0 August 26, 2014 standard

  • Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Jordan Ellenberg

    0 August 18, 2014 standard

  • Don’t flush: lifting the lid on the science of poo and wee

    0 August 17, 2014 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews David Adam

    0 August 15, 2014 standard

  • The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

    0 August 11, 2014 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews Lawrence Goldstone

    0 August 11, 2014 standard

  • Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening

    0 August 4, 2014 standard

  • Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening

    0 August 4, 2014 standard

  • Science Book a Day Video Interview with Tony De Saulles

    0 August 4, 2014 standard

  • What a Wonderful World: One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff

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  • Red Nile: The Biography of the World’s Greatest River

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  • The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews John Tresch

    0 July 30, 2014 standard

  • Where Song Began: Australia’s Birds and How They Changed the World

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  • Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon

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  • First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

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  • Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

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  • Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

    0 July 17, 2014 standard

  • The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

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