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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...