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World in the Balance

World in the Balance

The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By
Robert P. Crease
Robert P. Crease
2011

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46 books

Year 2012

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Beto
The Black Prism
Mockingjay
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Rise of Empire
Zomblog
Heir of Novron

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802 books

Nonfiction

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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Holy Cow
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day

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645 books

History

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Laura
From Dawn to Decadence
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
The Century
Millennium Year By Year: A Chronicle of World History from AD 1000 to the Present Day
National Geographic Society Atlas of World History
How the Irish Saved Civilization

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179 books

Science

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Laura
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
The World Without Us
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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34 books

Scholarly

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The Great Sea
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Women in the Ancient World
Great Christian Thinkers: From the Early Church through the Middle Ages
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Vanished kingdoms the rise and fall of states and nations

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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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101 books

2014audio

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Sarah
The Daemon Prism
The Psychopath Test
Princeps a novel in the Imager portfolio
The Story of Earth
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Imager's Intrigue

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22 books

Nf Engineering

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Sarah
Defining the Wind
Martian summer
The Mechanical Turk
Atomic Accidents : A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling

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67 books

Nf History

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Sarah
The story of the scrolls
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Defining the Wind
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island