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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 415,224 ratings — published 2003
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 24,034 ratings — published 1986
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 29,351 ratings — published 1962
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 55,475 ratings — published 2006
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 21,843 ratings — published 2017
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 55,343 ratings — published 2010
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 5,948 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 791,789 ratings — published 2010
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,094 ratings — published 2024
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,787 ratings — published 1972
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 36,647 ratings — published 2010
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 52,966 ratings — published 2020
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 50,879 ratings — published 2013
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 178,996 ratings — published 2016
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 105,720 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 235,866 ratings — published 2003
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 8,297 ratings — published 2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 201,721 ratings — published 2017
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.19 — 281,361 ratings — published 2015
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,360 ratings — published 2011
The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 555 ratings — published 2015
Bad Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 44,538 ratings — published 2008
Haldor Topsøe - et portræt (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 2013
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 7,557 ratings — published 1994
Spaltningen - Niels Bohr og Werner Heisenberg i videnskab og politik (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 9 ratings — published 2005
Danskeren bag bomben - om tømrerlærlingen fra Holstebro, der hjalp atombomben til verden og bestemte, hvor den skulle kastes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 20 ratings — published 2013
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,628 ratings — published
Filosoffen Niels Bohr (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 37 ratings — published 2009
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 4,930 ratings — published 2011
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 78,954 ratings — published 1995
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 129,416 ratings — published 2021
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,504 ratings — published 2020
Alfred Nobel: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Inventors)
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avg rating 4.29 — 305 ratings — published
A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 513 ratings — published 1928
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 7,744 ratings — published 2015
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,183 ratings — published 2019
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 626 ratings — published 2016
Paper: Paging Through History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,877 ratings — published 2016
Дорога на Асмару (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 265 ratings — published
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,280 ratings — published 2023
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 10,302 ratings — published 2023
Brothers York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,019 ratings — published 2019
The Galápagos: A Natural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 628 ratings — published 2014
Hekate in Ancient Greek Religion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 60 ratings — published 1999
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 112,031 ratings — published 2025
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 4,810 ratings — published 2015
The Bone Chests (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 576 ratings — published 2023
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,360 ratings — published 2024
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 354 ratings — published 2022
Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,494 ratings — published 2022
“The persistence of this imagery calls to mind what Ludwik Fleck termed 'the self-contained' nature of scientific thought. As he described it, 'the interaction between what is already known, what remains to be learned, and those who are to apprehend it, go to ensure harmony within the system. But at the same time they also preserve the harmony of illusions, which is quite secure within the confines of a given thought style.”
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