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What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
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Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
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Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
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David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
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The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
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A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
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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.
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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.
Tania Gergel
The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
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A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
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Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
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The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.
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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.
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A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014.
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The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
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A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
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What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.
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Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
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A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
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Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
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His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
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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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Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.
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Rejection Proof
Jia Jiang
A fascinating look at rejection from every angle, from understanding and overcoming the fear of rejection to learning how to increase your chances of a yes while becoming perfectly okay with a no.
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