SCIENCE / History
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SCIENCE / History
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SCIENCE / History
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- Making the monster, the science behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kathryn Harkup
- Sawbones, the horrifying, hilarious road to modern medicine, written by Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy ; illustrated by Teylor Smirl
- The perfect theory, a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity, Pedro G. Ferreira
- The Copernicus complex, our cosmic significance in a universe of planets and probabilities, Caleb Scharf
- The one device, the secret history of the iPhone, Brian Merchant
- The secret of life, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA's double helix, Howard Markel
- Discoveries and opinions of Galileo, Galileo ; translated and with an introduction by Stillman Drake
- Marie Curie and her daughters, the private lives of science's first family, Shelley Emling
- The enlightened Mr. Parkinson, the pioneering life of a forgotten surgeon and the mysterious disease that bears his name, Cherry Lewis
- Planck, driven by vision, broken by war, Brandon R. Brown
- Starborn, how the stars made us (and who we would be without them), Roberto Trotta
- The island of knowledge, the limits of science and the search for meaning, Marcelo Gleiser
- The drug hunters, the improbable quest to discover new medicines, Donald R. Kirsch, PhD and Ogi Ogas, PhD
- Nuts & bolts, seven small inventions that changed the world (in a big way), Roma Agrawal
- Of ice and men, how we've used cold to transform humanity, Fred Hogge
- Chasing Venus, the race to measure the heavens, Andrea Wulf
- Jonas Salk, a life, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
- Elegant defense, the extraordinary new science of the immune system : a tale in four lives, Matt Richtel
- You are here, from the compass to GPS, the history and future of how we find ourselves, Hiawatha Bray
- Finding zero, a mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers, Amir D. Aczel
- A lab of one's own, science and suffrage in the first World War, Patricia Fara
- The water kingdom, a secret history of China, Philip Ball
- A little history of science, William Bynum
- Rethinking diabetes, what science reveals about diet, insulin, and successful treatments, Gary Taubes
- Pandora's DNA, tracing the breast cancer genes through history, science, and one family tree, Lizzie Stark
- The only woman in the room, why science is still a boys' club, Eileen Pollack
- The science of spin, how rotational forces affect everything from your body to jet engines to the weather, Roland Ennos
- Superfuel, thorium, the green energy source for the future, Richard Martin
- Opium, how an ancient flower shaped and poisoned our world, John H. Halpern, MD and David Blistein
- Consider the fork, a history of how we cook and eat, Bee Wilson ; with illustrations by Annabel Lee
- The man who touched his own heart, true tales of science, surgery, and mystery, Robert Dunn
- Origin, a genetic history of the Americas, Jennifer Raff
- Neutrino hunters, the thrilling chase for a ghostly particle to unlock the secrets of the universe, Ray Jayawardhana
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