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Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting th...
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Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells

Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells

A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks Grimoi...
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Mosaics of Knowledge: Representing Information in the Roman World

Mosaics of Knowledge: Representing Information in the Roman World

Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part o...
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Science Between Myth and History: The Quest for Common Ground and Its Importance for Scientific Practice

Science Between Myth and History: The Quest for Common Ground and Its Importance for Scientific Practice

Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of scie...
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Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE): A Sourcebook

Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE): A Sourcebook

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and...
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The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whic...
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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science, From the Scinece Teacher You Wish You'd Had

To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science, From the Scinece Teacher You Wish You'd Had

Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.Scientists have been participants in the best reality sh...
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The Globe: How the Earth Became Round

The Globe: How the Earth Became Round

A history of how we came to know that the earth is round, rather than flat. The Globe tells the...
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns. In 2012, Nobel Prize winning s...
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning

Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern hum...
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The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood

The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood

The full and shocking account of one of the biggest medical disasters in history – and the lengths t...
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Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.In 1900, almost no on...
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Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton

Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words...
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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise...
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A History of Biology

A History of Biology

This book presents a global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today, providin...
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