History of Science & Technology
The discoveries and inventions that transformed human civilization
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Mark Buchanan
What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Walter Isaacson
His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Steve Brusatte
A New History of a Lost World. William Morrow, 2018.
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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.
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.
Lydia Kang
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.
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.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
David Goldblatt
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
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Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Brian Grazer
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Richard Dawkins
The Long Reach of the Gene. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Mark Buchanan
What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Carlo Rovelli
The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Penguin, 2016.
Alan Jasanoff
How Brain, Body, And Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. Basic Books, 2018.
James Lovelock
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
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Mark Buchanan
What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
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His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
James Lovelock
The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. The MIT Press, 2019.
Rebecca Rupp
Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
Steve Brusatte
A New History of a Lost World. William Morrow, 2018.
Charles Fishman
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
Eric Schlosser
Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Nick Lane
Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Oxford University Press, 2005.
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