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Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the bas...
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The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health

The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health

Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrem...
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The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis o...
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How To Prevent the Next Pandemic

How To Prevent the Next Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind u...
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The Joy of Science

The Joy of Science

Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while try...
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Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity

Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity

Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of...
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The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer

The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discov...
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-...
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From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr's Vision of Physics

From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr's Vision of Physics

The first comprehensive philosophical and historical account of the experimental foundations of Niel...
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Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

'Timely, eye-opening, provocative – you will see the world differently after reading it.' - Kim Stan...
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Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his su...
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Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics

Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics

Why are candle flames yellow? Why does ultraviolet light supposedly kill vampires? What about the mo...
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Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

One of the pillars of modern science, statistical mechanics, owes much to one man, the Austrian phys...
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Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe

Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe

‘The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years’ The SpectatorLife is Simple tells th...
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Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life

Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life

In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may...
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