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The Stories Behind the News: Journalists Who Shaped Our World

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

David Leavitt

Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

The Disappearing Spoon

The Disappearing Spoon

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.

Twice as Hard

Twice as Hard

Jasmine Brown

The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

Talking Across the Divide

Talking Across the Divide

Justin Lee

How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.

Stuff Matters

Stuff Matters

Mark Miodownik

Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

The Games

The Games

David Goldblatt

A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

The Secret Lives of Color

The Secret Lives of Color

Kassia St. Clair

The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.

What If?

What If?

Randall Munroe

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

Midnight in Chernobyl

Midnight in Chernobyl

Adam Higginbotham

The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.

The Children of Ash and Elm

The Children of Ash and Elm

Neil Price

A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.

Muhammad

Muhammad

Martin Lings

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.

The Defiant Optimist

The Defiant Optimist

Durreen Shahnaz

Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.

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