Obsessive Genius

Obsessive Genius

By
Barbara Goldsmith
Barbara Goldsmith
2005 • 256 pages

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22 books

Biography

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Becoming Steve Jobs

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251 books

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Sarah
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
Victoria's Daughters
The Psychopath Test
Breasts a natural and unnatural history
The Pluto Files
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

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97 books

Nf Science

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Sarah
The Psychopath Test
The Pluto Files
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Deep
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The fatal strain

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170 books

2009book

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Sarah
Ángel Malvado
Oath of Swords
Look to Windward
The third claw of God
Manxome Foe
Black Sun Rising
The Death of Chaos

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15 books

Nf Bio

gryphyn
Sarah
The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Preserve the World's Harvest
Zoo story
Obsessive Genius
Newton and the Counterfeiter
Frozen: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, Deception, and Death
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World

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55 books

Non Fiction

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Ben
Obsessive Genius
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Uncle Tungsten
Death from the Skies!
On the Origin of Species

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5 books

Biography

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Ben
Obsessive Genius
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Uncle Tungsten
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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95 books

Biography

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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
A Two-Spirit Journey
Papillon
Charity and Sylvia
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery
Madame Curie
Angela Davis: An Autobiography

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87 books

History Of Science

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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
Superior: The Return of Race Science

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13 books

Chemistry

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Napoleon's Buttons
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Obsessive Genius
The Alchemy of Us
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Stuff Matters
Culinary reactions

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272 books

Science And Engineering

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning