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Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial

Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial

At a time when vaccines are a vital tool in the fight against Covid-19 in all its various mutations...
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A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

'Boldly ambitious, deeply affecting, and magisterial in scope' Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribe...
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy and the unimaginable destruction wro...
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Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of sh...
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Nuclear Weapons (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge)

Nuclear Weapons (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge)

A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured...
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, aut...
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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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