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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
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[(The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better)] [Author: Tyler Cowen] published on (January, 2012)
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The FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
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American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970
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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
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The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
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Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
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A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal
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The Heroic Age of American Invention
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology
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The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin And Growth
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Progress and Power
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The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon
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Stuff: The Materials The World Is Made Of
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Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
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The Epic of Steel
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Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America
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Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
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Plastic: The Making of a Synthetic Century
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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology
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Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools
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A History of Agriculture in Europe and America
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Food: A Very Short Introduction
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
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Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology
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Famine: A Short History
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Energy: A Human History
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans
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The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson: Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
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Rose George (Goodreads Author)
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The Locomotive Pioneers: Early Steam Locomotive Development 1801–1851
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line P
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
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The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
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A History of the Global Stock Market: From Ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
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Catalogues and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck & Company
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Louis Pasteur: Free-Lance of Science
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Defying Providence: Smallpox and the forgotten 18th century Medical Revolution
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Polio: An American Story
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Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
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Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress
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Scientists Against Time
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Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
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Leonardo da Vinci
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
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The Control of Nature
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IBM and the Holocaust
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The Johnstown Flood
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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How We Got Here: From Bows and Arrows to the Space Age
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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The Ascent of Man
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The Communist Manifesto
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Philosophical Letters: Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
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The New Organon
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Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation
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Pieces of the Action
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