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Gravity's Arc: The Story of Gravity from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond
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Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation
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The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe
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Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution
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Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles
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Unsolved Mysteries of Science: A Mind-Expanding Journey Through a Universe of Big Bangs, Particle Waves, and Other Perplexing Concepts
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The Weather Companion: An Album of Meteorological History, Science, and Folklore
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Everything's Relative: And Other Fables from Science and Technology
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Mad About Modern Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities
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The Scientific Companion, 2nd Edition
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The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science
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Judaism, Physics and God: Searching for Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World
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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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Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
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The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
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Instability Rules: The Ten Most Amazing Ideas of Modern Science
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Light Years and Time Travel: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light
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The Five Biggest Ideas in Science
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All Facts Considered: The Essential Library of Inessential Knowledge
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A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty
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The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science
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The Sky Is Not the Limit
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The Theory of Evolution: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works
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Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
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