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History of Science
The "history of science" is my favorite nonfiction genre.
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In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
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In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
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E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
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David Bodanis (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 8,291 ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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Tom Zoellner (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
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A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
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Tesla: Man Out of Time
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The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution
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3.82 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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David Quammen (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 8,591 ratings
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Kai Bird (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 56,349 ratings
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Conciatore: The Life and Times of 17th Century Glassmaker Antonio Neri
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Paul Engle (Goodreads Author)
4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Enigmatic Expanse - Existence
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Sreedhar P. Iyer (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle
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Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe
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Nicholas Nicastro (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
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Richard Hamblyn (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
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The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
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How Doctors Think
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The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, And Pyrotechnics: The History Of The Explosive That Changed The World
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Jack Kelly (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist
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3.96 avg rating — 757 ratings
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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Mario Livio (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 6,230 ratings
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The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
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3.98 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage Aboard the Beagle
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Peter Nichols (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 475 ratings
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| 131 |
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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
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From Poison Arrows to Prozac: How Deadly Toxins Changed Our Lives Forever
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3.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.78 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
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4.11 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
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The Double Helix
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Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
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Jonathan Fetter-Vorm (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,462 ratings
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
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Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
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| 140 |
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Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
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| 140 |
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Darwin for Beginners
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Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
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4.19 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Jennifer Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 13,733 ratings
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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3.88 avg rating — 4,061 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,628 ratings
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Reinventing the Wheel
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Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
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Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
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Steven Magee (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Toxic Light
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Steven Magee (Goodreads Author)
2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
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Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
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3.82 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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Dan Fagin (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 4,636 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 39,342 ratings
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The Politics of Evolution, Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London
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3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,579 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife : A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon
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3.63 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
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| 158 |
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The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla
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The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler
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Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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D.T. Max (Goodreads Author)
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 7,158 ratings
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Snowflake Bentley
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In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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Postcards from the Brain Museum: The Improbable Search for Meaning in the Matter of Famous Minds
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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The House Of Wisdom
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Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
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Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars
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The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age
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The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
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Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
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Ideas and Opinions
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
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David Quammen (Goodreads Author)
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Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace
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The Tales of Astro Cat
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Davis Horner (Goodreads Author)
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Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine
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Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
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Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
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Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People
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Illuminating Disease: An Introduction to Green Fluorescent Proteins
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Marc Zimmer (Goodreads Author)
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Minding the Heavens: The Story of our Discovery of the Milky Way
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An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
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Gabrielle Walker (Goodreads Author)
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Only the Longest Threads
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Tasneem Zehra Husain (Goodreads Author)
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
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A Fierce Radiance
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Lauren Belfer (Goodreads Author)
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
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Absolute Zero And The Conquest Of Cold
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The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy
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Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
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Every one of these books looks fascinating. But I'm lazy. What I would like is a whole series of TV specials, one per book, narrated beautifully by Edward Herrmann, James Earl Jones, David Attenborough, Mike Rowe, Sigourney Weaver. Would someone please do that for me?
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I really wanted to vote positively for A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. It was a fun read. But I found a mistake. I feel that if a non-scientist like myself found a mistake there must be others in this book. Sigh.
Some books on here are not history. #100 Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things is psychology.
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Susan wrote: "Every one of these books looks fascinating. But I'm lazy. What I would like is a whole series of TV specials, one per book, narrated beautifully by Edward Herrmann, James Earl Jones, David Attenbor..."There is a Crash Course series about the history of science on youtube, there's about 30+ videos @ 13mn in length. I recommend it!
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