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Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
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The Five Biggest Ideas in Science
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Everything's Relative: And Other Fables from Science and Technology
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Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity--From the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven
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Gravity's Arc: The Story of Gravity from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond
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Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
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Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
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Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome
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The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science
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The Weather Companion: An Album of Meteorological History, Science, and Folklore
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The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science
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The Scientific Companion, 2nd Edition
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It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: Great Amateurs of Science
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All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge
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Instability Rules: The Ten Most Amazing Ideas of Modern Science
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The Cancer Treatment Revolution: How Smart Drugs and Other New Therapies are Renewing Our Hope and Changing the Face of Medicine
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Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
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Harry Potter and History
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ColdFusion Presents: New Thinking
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The Sky Is Not the Limit
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Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World
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The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be
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The Dawn of Human Culture
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