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History Of Science

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  • 87 Books
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
Fatal Invention
Video Games Have Always Been Queer
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth

Superior: The Return of Race Science
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Rosalind Franklin : The Dark Lady of DNA
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Birth
The Invention of Air
Fermat's last theorem
Breathless
The Knife Man
A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
A Monk and Two Peas : The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics
Plastic Fantastic
Napoleon's Buttons
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A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
Obsessive Genius
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

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

Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America
Gentlemen's Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men
Strange Glow
Tesla
The Age of Scientific Sexism: How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes
The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science
From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
The Alchemy of Us
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Dark Energy

The Holographic Universe
The Icepick Surgeon
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
How We Got to Now
The Clockwork Universe
Galileo's Daughter
Cranioklepty
The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Operation Paperclip
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Gory Details
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
Madame Curie
Einstein: His Life and Universe
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
In Pursuit of the Unknown
Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
The Idea of the Brain
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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The Things We Make

The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
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The Chemical Age

A People’s History of Computing in the United States
No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli
The Glass Universe
Hedy's Folly
Timekeepers
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science  Religion
Empire of the Sum
The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump
Brilliant
Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans

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