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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic,...
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Free Radicals: How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
The story of the circle of scientists, poets and dissidents who discovered laughing gas—and forever...
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The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry
The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centur...
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965
Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate...
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Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution
The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actua...
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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19
An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, examining the role that co...
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
An astrophysicist’s reflection on how shifts in perspective have transformed our understanding of th...
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Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science
Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career...
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Abortion: A History
From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion.   An ancient entertainer...
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Standards (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digita...
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Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
2024 PROSE Award Winner: Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ancient History   How scientist...
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The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution
How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industr...
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This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
‘A dazzling tale, brilliantly told’ Peter Frankopan‘A wonderful book’ Sunday Telegraph, 5*‘Triumphan...
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A Little History of Mathematics
A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is...
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Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
A humane, thoughtful and yet clear-eyed history of people with learning disabilities. Those The...
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