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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Inventing the Christmas Tree
Moon: A Brief History
Color
Uncommon Grounds
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tulipomania
Banana
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Mauve
Coal: A Human History
Milk : The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
The True History of Chocolate
Consider the fork
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
The Secret Life of Lobsters
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Stolen Year
Why We Love: The New Science Behind Our Closest Relationships
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History
Blood in the Machine
Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
Gloves: An Intimate History
This Earthly Frame
Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
Varieties of Atheism in Science
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Everything I Need I Get from You
The Lonely Hunter: Why the Search for Love Is Broken
Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
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The Hive

White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
A History of the World in 100 Objects
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Hunger
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
Sweetness and Power
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
Wanderlust
Waste and Want
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The Story of Corn

Flow
Garbage Land
Necropolis
The Year 1000
No Idle Hands
Rats
The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living
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Iron Cages

The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
The Journey of Humanity
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood
Who We Are and How We Got Here
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
There Are No Accidents
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
The Clocks are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
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Written in Bone

The land of open graves
Digging Deep: How Science Unearths Puzzles from the Past
How Traditions Live and Die
The First Signs
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Napoleon's Buttons
Lives in Ruins: Archeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
Facebook: The Inside Story
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The Race Underground
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
Wasteland
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L'Art de l'enchantement

Buyology
Citizen canine
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism
Anxious Parents
The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
The Mommy Myth
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
Mother Nature : A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
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