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#304

City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

2012 • 10 Readers • 3.5

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#305

Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity

2015 • 17 Readers • 273 pages • 3

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#306

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

2011 • 5 Readers • 416 pages • 4

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#307

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

#2 of 5 in Incerto

2007 • 458 Readers • 444 pages • 3.7

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#308

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

2013 • 16 Readers • 3.8

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#309

Incognito

2011 • 140 Readers • 3.9

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#310

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

2009 • 188 Readers • 444 pages • 3.8

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#311

Constantine the Emperor

2013 • 1 Reader • 385 pages

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Hallucinations

2012 • 134 Readers • 3.6

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#313

Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution

#3 of 5 in The History of England

2014 • 13 Readers • 502 pages • 3

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#314

Jumbo: This being the true story of the world's greatest elephant

2008 • 1 Reader • 3

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#315

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2011 • 1 Reader • 336 pages • 3

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#316

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

2013 • 34 Readers • 277 pages • 4.3

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#317

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4 Readers • 5

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#318

1776

2005 • 306 Readers • 432 pages • 4.1

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#319

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

2009 • 24 Readers • 495 pages • 3

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#320

The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

2010 • 6 Readers • 768 pages • 5

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#321

Think Like A Freak

2014 • 22 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

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#322

Salt: A World History

2002 • 336 Readers • 496 pages • 3.6

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#323

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

1997 • 89 Readers • 294 pages • 3.8

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#324

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

2011 • 2,418 Readers • 443 pages • 4.2

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#325

The Edge of the World

2014 • 12 Readers • 394 pages • 3

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#326

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

2014 • 80 Readers • 454 pages • 4.5

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#327

Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients

2007 • 1 Reader • 4

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#328

Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier

2007 • 1 Reader • 430 pages

#329

European History for Dummies

2006 • 2 Readers • 463 pages • 3.5

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#330

Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society

2010 • 5 Readers • 512 pages • 2

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#331

It's About Time: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History

2013 • 1 Reader • 224 pages • 2

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#332

Atoms Under the Floorboards

1 Reader

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#333

British history for dummies

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#334

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2012 • 1 Reader

#335

Joan of Arc: A History

2014 • 7 Readers • 328 pages • 4.2

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#336

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2015 • 3 Readers • 316 pages

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#337

Dr. Mutter's Marvels

2014 • 9 Readers • 384 pages • 3.6

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#338

A Concise History of Modern Europe

2011 • 1 Reader

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#339

The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks

2013 • 82 Readers • 400 pages • 10h 16m • 3.8

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#340

Coined

#341

The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession

2014 • 2 Readers • 304 pages • 3

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#342

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

1995 • 63 Readers • 466 pages • 3.6

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#343

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

2003 • 72 Readers • 3.5

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#344

What are the Seven Wonders of the World?

1998 • 561 pages

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#345

Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth

2014 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 3

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#346

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

2015 • 4 Readers • 300 pages • 3

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#347

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

2010 • 10 Readers • 234 pages • 2

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#348

Packing for Mars

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2010 • 302 Readers • 334 pages • 4

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#349

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#350

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

2000 • 251 Readers • 340 pages • 4.1

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#351

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

2002 • 130 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

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#352

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology

2001 • 71 Readers • 356 pages • 3.8

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#353

Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age

2015 • 4 Readers • 400 pages • 3

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#354

The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe

2014 • 2 Readers • 383 pages • 3

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#355

The Planets

2005 • 29 Readers • 6 pages • 3.3

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#356

George Washington's Secret Six The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

2013 • 4 Readers • 330 pages • 3.7

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#357

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity

2015 • 1 Reader • 12 pages • 4

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#358

A is for Arsenic

2015 • 30 Readers • 288 pages • 4.1

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#359

A Little History of the United States

2016 • 9 Readers • 344 pages • 4.4

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#360

The Making of Home

2014 • 9 Readers • 368 pages • 4

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#361

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

1998 • 305 Readers • 200 pages • 3.8

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#362

Making a Point

2015 • 2 Readers • 378 pages • 4

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#363

The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

2015 • 6 Readers • 434 pages • 3

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#364

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

2009 • 4 Readers • 4

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#365

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3 Readers • 1

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#366

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

2014 • 3 Readers • 3

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#367

Women of the Renaissance

8 Women in Culture and Society

1991 • 1 Reader • 351 pages • 3

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#368

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

2001 • 45 Readers • 3.9

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#369

The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution

2015 • 1 Reader • 256 pages • 2

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#370

Yes, My Accent Is Real - and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You

2015 • 12 Readers • 245 pages • 4

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#371

Pacific: The Ocean of the Future

2015 • 26 Readers • 492 pages • 3.5

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#372

Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science

2015 • 2 Readers • 287 pages

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#373

Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers

2015 • 11 Readers • 284 pages • 3.4

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#374

The Witches: Salem, 1692

2015 • 136 Readers • 498 pages • 3.2

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#375

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2015 • 1 Reader • 3

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#376

Suspicious Minds

2015 • 10 Readers • 304 pages • 3

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#377

The axe and the oath

1 Reader

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#378

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2013 • 1 Reader • 3

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#379

Dynasty

2015 • 57 Readers • 512 pages • 4.3

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#380

Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

2014 • 3 Readers • 280 pages • 3

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#381

Ten Billion Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future

2015 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

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#382

It Ended Badly

2015 • 25 Readers • 240 pages • 4.1

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#383

A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

2015 • 2 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

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#384

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2015 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

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#385

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

1 • 470 Readers • 4

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#386

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor

2015 • 4 Readers • 416 pages • 3

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#387

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

2015 • 3 Readers • 288 pages • 3.5

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#388

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2003 • 675 Readers • 303 pages • 3.9

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#389

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

2015 • 1 Reader • 432 pages • 4

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#390

The Medici

2003 • 1 Reader

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#391

The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

2014 • 92 Readers • 392 pages • 4

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#392

You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

2015 • 3 Readers • 453 pages

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#393

Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders

2016 • 4 Readers • 324 pages • 3

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#394

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2007 • 3 Readers • 4

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#395

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2013 • 2 Readers

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#396

Hair: A Human History

2016 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

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#397

Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation

2015 • 2 Readers • 436 pages • 3

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#398

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2015 • 5 Readers • 400 pages • 3

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#399

Paper: Paging Through History

2016 • 31 Readers • 389 pages • 3.3

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#400

The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

2016 • 3 Readers • 391 pages • 3

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#401

The Age of Genius

2016 • 7 Readers • 368 pages • 2.5

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#402

Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

2013 • 9 Readers • 551 pages • 3.8

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#403

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

2012 • 110 Readers • 745 pages • 4.1

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