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Science

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Physicians, Plagues and Progress: The History of Western medicine from Antiquity to Antibiotics
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
A Feast of Science: Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World
Liquid Rules
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The Science of Everyday Life

Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History
Europe
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
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Breakfast with Einstein

How To
Superheavy
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
The Science of Food: An Exploration of What We Eat and How We Cook
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Transcendence
The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena
The End of Everything
Humble Pi
Blood and Guts : A Working Guide to Your Own Insides
I Hate Mathematics! Book
The Light Ages
Death by Shakespeare
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Cook, Taste, Learn

The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
The Age of Wood
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
Otherlands
Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe
A Taste for Poison
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
Impact
How to Take Over the World
Off the Edge
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Ingredients
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Napoleon's Buttons
A History of the World in 100 Animals
How Fast Did T. Rex Run?
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
Pump
Plagues Upon the Earth
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Full Spectrum How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
What the Ear Hears
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
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