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Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
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The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.
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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Arnold Thackray
The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary. Basic Books, 2015.
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The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
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Peter Thiel
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.
David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Admiral William H. McRaven
Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Deborah Blum
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.
Kate Moore
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Nate Pedersen
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Sam Kean
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Jasmine Brown
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Mark Miodownik
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
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A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
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The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
Will Storr
Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better. Collins, 2019.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Yanis Varoufakis
My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
Margot Lee Shetterly
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Steven Levitt
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. HarperCollins, 2005.
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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
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The Origins of Good and Evil. Crown Publishers, 2013.
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The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Arnold Thackray
The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary. Basic Books, 2015.
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His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
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The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
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