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Isaac Newton
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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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The Origin of Species
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The Wright Brothers
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Steve Jobs
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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Madame Curie: A Biography
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Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
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My Inventions
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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The Ghost Map
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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The Worldly Philosophers
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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The Soul of a New Machine
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A Beautiful Mind
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Democracy in America
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
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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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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
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Men of Mathematics
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
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The Right Stuff
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
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The Double Helix
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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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Europe: A History
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
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Connections
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A History of Venice
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Euler: The Master of Us All
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Watt's Perfect Engine : Steam and the Age of Invention
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A History of Western Philosophy
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't
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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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The Life of Samuel Johnson
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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The Whig Interpretation of History
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Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
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The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
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A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
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Art Through the Ages
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Leonardo da Vinci
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