Category Archives: History

  • Proofiness: The Dark Art of Mathematical Deception

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  • How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

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  • Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us

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  • From X-rays to DNA: How Engineering Drives Biology

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  • Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Denise Kiernan

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  • The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought

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  • Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils

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  • A Female Genius: How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s Daughter, Started the Computer Age

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  • The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

    0 June 19, 2014 standard

  • Leonardo’s Foot: How 10 Toes, 52 Bones, and 66 Muscles Shaped the Human World

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews James Hannam

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  • The Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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  • Dyani Lewis reviews The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Christoph Irmscher

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  • The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor 

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Amir Alexander

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  • Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Pedro Ferreira

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  • Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Sarah Wise

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  • On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

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  • Charlotte Pezaro Reviews Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs and Bad Ideas

    0 May 20, 2014 standard

  • Challenger: An American Tragedy

    0 May 19, 2014 standard

  • What makes you YOU? The Story of Genetics

    0 May 18, 2014 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews Tony De Saulles

    0 May 16, 2014 standard

  • Look Inside: Space

    0 May 15, 2014 standard

  • 100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod

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  • Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Adam Rutherford

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  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Alex Bellos

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  • Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

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  • The Cloud Chamber

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  • The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

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  • Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science

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  • Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

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  • God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

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  • What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews James Owen Weatherall

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  • The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

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  • The Terrible Truth About Time (Horrible Science)

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  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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  • Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

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  • The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy

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  • The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer—and How to Win It

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  • The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Naomi Oreskes

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  • Science Book a Day Interviews Brian Switek

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  • Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life

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