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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,212 ratings — published 2003
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,334 ratings — published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,279 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,769 ratings — published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,441 ratings — published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,349 ratings — published 1962
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,140 ratings — published 1997
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,856 ratings — published 2008
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,033 ratings — published 1986
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,199 ratings — published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,649 ratings — published 1859
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,471 ratings — published 2006
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,475 ratings — published 2016
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,489 ratings — published 1980
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 30,179 ratings — published 1999
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 111,981 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,337 ratings — published 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,837 ratings — published 2015
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 214,561 ratings — published 1985
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,645 ratings — published 2010
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 201,704 ratings — published 2017
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 192,493 ratings — published 2014
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,948 ratings — published 2011
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,230 ratings — published 2002
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,002 ratings — published 2001
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 178,976 ratings — published 2016
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,958 ratings — published 2014
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 101,389 ratings — published 1999
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,679 ratings — published 2010
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 78,946 ratings — published 1995
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,630 ratings — published 1999
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,053 ratings — published 1994
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 77,868 ratings — published 2014
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,968 ratings — published 1976
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,170 ratings — published 2015
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 235,865 ratings — published 2003
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,108 ratings — published 1991
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,607 ratings — published 2012
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,435 ratings — published 1987
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,929 ratings — published 2018
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 894 ratings — published 2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,645 ratings — published 2013
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 727 ratings — published 1992
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,916 ratings — published 2011
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 96,319 ratings — published 2019
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,548 ratings — published 2014
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,677 ratings — published 2012
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,593 ratings — published 2003
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,407 ratings — published 1991
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,095 ratings — published 2018
“The world is round.”
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“No one listened to us! No one listened to the scientists and the doctors. They pulled science and medicine into politics. Of course they did!”
― Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
― Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
