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Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the 19th Century
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
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Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
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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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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
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Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
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The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
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The Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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IBM and the Holocaust
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
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The Basque History of the World
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Salt: A World History
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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