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Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
The Mindset list of the obscure
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
How Music Works
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The Physics of Wall Street

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Failure Is Not an Option
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Classic Video Games: The Golden Age 1971-1984
Don't Know Much About Mythology
Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II
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The Story of World War II

Computing
Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News
The Mental Floss History of the United States
Ripley's Believe It or Not!: In Celebration...
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development
Schirra's Space
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
A World Lit Only by Fire
Medieval People
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Rocket Men

Spycraft
Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers
The Right Stuff
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
Hello, everybody!
Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks
Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The World of Star Trek
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age
Consider the fork
"Live from Cape Canaveral"
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Almost Perfect

Cyberspies
Quiz Kids: The Radio Program with the Smartest Children in America, 1940-1953
The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
The Untold Story of the Talking Book
Spam Nation
Get Well Soon
Ice Ghosts
Is This Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic: The Nation's Music Station
Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier
Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer
Nothing On but the Radio: A Look Back at Radio in Canada and How It Changed the World
Colossal Canadian Failures: A Short History of Things that Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Flim Flam: Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists
Apollo 11: How America Won the Race to the Moon
Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids?: Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted
Raised on Radio
Two Years Below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946
The Oak Island Mystery
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Non Campus Mentis

One Giant Leap
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
Mystery Of Exploding Teeth
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Canada before Television: Radio, Taste, and the Struggle for Cultural Democracy
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A Brief History of Vice
Fighting for Space
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
Flight
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
50 Years of Text Games: Further Explorations
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time

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