Category Archives: Society

  • Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

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  • We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

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  • She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

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  • The Design of Everyday Things

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  • Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

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  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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  • Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet

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  • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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  • The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government’s Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure

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  • On Human Nature

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  • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West

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  • The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

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  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

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  • A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

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  • Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

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  • The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

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  • Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity

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  • The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

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  • Dot.

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  • Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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  • Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture

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

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  • With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

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  • Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: What is really going on inside our heads?

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  • Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

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  • Real Food Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It

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  • QED: The strange theory of light and matter

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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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  • Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats

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  • Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today

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

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

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  • UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World

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  • Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

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  • Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World

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  • The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

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  • Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame

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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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  • Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

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  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

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  • All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

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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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  • This Book Stinks! Gross Garbage, Rotten Rubbish, and the Science of Trash

    0 November 29, 2017 standard

  • Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

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

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  • The Secret Lives of Colour

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