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History Of Science

#2

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

1995 • 277 Readers • 208 pages • 4

#3

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

2003 • 22 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

#4

Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America

2022 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

#5

Fatal Invention

2011 • 39 Readers • 400 pages • 4.8

#6

Video Games Have Always Been Queer

Planned book #16 of 15 in Postmillenial Pop

6 Readers

#7

Cover 7

1960 • 1 Reader

#8

Superior: The Return of Race Science

2019 • 78 Readers • 258 pages • 4.4

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#9

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

2018 • 8 Readers • 256 pages • 3.3

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#10

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

2022 • 2 Readers • 432 pages • 5

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#11

Rosalind Franklin : The Dark Lady of DNA

2002 • 17 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#12

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

2014 • 102 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#13

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

2022 • 6 Readers • 296 pages • 4

#14

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

4 Readers • 464 pages • 3

#15

Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience

2022 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 3

#16

The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter

2022 • 377 pages

#17

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

2002 • 38 Readers • 305 pages • 3.7

#18

Birth

2006 • 9 Readers • 312 pages • 4

#19

The Invention of Air

2008 • 20 Readers • 254 pages • 4.3

#20

Fermat's last theorem

1997 • 187 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1

#21

Breathless

2022 • 27 Readers • 4.4

#22

The Knife Man

2005 • 19 Readers • 342 pages • 4.5

#23

A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks

2005 • 8 Readers • 568 pages

#24

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

2010 • 184 Readers • 319 pages • 4.1

#25

A Monk and Two Peas : The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics

2000 • 1 Reader • 278 pages

#26

Plastic Fantastic

2009 • 2 Readers • 266 pages

#27

Napoleon's Buttons

1991 • 23 Readers • 375 pages • 3.4

#28

Cover 3

2007 • 5 Readers • 3

#29

Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity

2016 • 1 Reader

#30

Obsessive Genius

2005 • 7 Readers • 256 pages • 4

#31

Cover 3

5 Readers • 3

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#32

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

2020 • 375 Readers • 240 pages • 4

#33

Cover 4

7 Readers • 5

#34

Anaximander: And the Birth of Science

2005 • 6 Readers • 236 pages • 3

#35

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

2022 • 29 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#36

A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

2022 • 42 Readers • 222 pages • 4.5

#37

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

2020 • 21 Readers • 240 pages • 2

#38

The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America

1976 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

#39

Gentlemen's Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men

2013 • 1 Reader • 236 pages

#40

Strange Glow

2016 • 5 Readers • 512 pages

#41

Tesla

1981 • 27 Readers • 310 pages • 3.3

#42

The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes

2015 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

#43

The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science

1989 • 4 Readers • 372 pages

#44

From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America

2014 • 1 Reader

#45

The Alchemy of Us

2020 • 19 Readers • 328 pages • 3.5

#46

Cover 4

2014 • 1 Reader

#47

The Holographic Universe

1991 • 33 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

#48

The Icepick Surgeon

2021 • 89 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7

#49

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

2010 • 267 Readers • 391 pages • 4

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#50

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

2007 • 10 Readers • 432 pages • 4

#51

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

2003 • 27 Readers • 464 pages • 4

#52

How We Got to Now

2014 • 80 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

#53

The Clockwork Universe

2011 • 41 Readers • 378 pages • 3.4

#54

Galileo's Daughter

1999 • 74 Readers • 420 pages • 3.7

#55

Cranioklepty

2009 • 3 Readers • 320 pages

#56

The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe

1991 • 1 Reader • 535 pages

#57

The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

2002 • 9 Readers • 452 pages • 4

#58

Operation Paperclip

76 Readers • 574 pages • 4.2

#59

Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography

2019 • 6 Readers

#60

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

#1 of 2 in Feynman

1985 • 658 Readers • 391 pages • 4.3

#61

Gory Details

2021 • 69 Readers • 304 pages • 4.2

#62

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

2005 • 22 Readers • 1,160 pages • 4.5

#63

Madame Curie

1937 • 23 Readers • 452 pages • 5

#64

Einstein: His Life and Universe

2007 • 288 Readers • 675 pages • 4

#65

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

1996 • 276 Readers • 434 pages • 4.2

#66

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

1998 • 57 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

#67

In Pursuit of the Unknown

2012 • 25 Readers • 360 pages • 3.5

#68

Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity

2022 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

#69

The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor

2004 • 6 Readers • 209 pages • 3

#70

The Idea of the Brain

2020 • 17 Readers • 496 pages • 5

#71

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

1999 • 82 Readers • 269 pages • 3.7

#72

Cover 3

2023 • 3 Readers

#73

The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast

2019 • 24 Readers • 224 pages • 4.2

#74

Cover 0

5 Readers • 5

#75

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

2018 • 3 Readers • 290 pages

#76

No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli

2002 • 1 Reader • 573 pages

#77

The Glass Universe

2016 • 35 Readers • 338 pages • 4

#78

Hedy's Folly

2011 • 15 Readers • 261 pages • 2.8

#79

Timekeepers

2016 • 20 Readers • 349 pages • 3

#80

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

2023 • 5 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#81

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science Religion

4 Readers • 528 pages

#82

Empire of the Sum

2023 • 13 Readers • 3.9

#83

The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump

2020 • 4 Readers • 283 pages • 4

#84

Brilliant

2010 • 1 Reader • 373 pages

#85

Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids

2019 • 1 Reader • 143 pages

#86

The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

2020 • 21 Readers • 368 pages • 1

#87

Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race

4 Cultural Front

2014 • 1 Reader • 277 pages

#88

The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

2023 • 11 Readers • 304 pages • 4