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Islamic Civilization & Golden Age

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The era when Muslim scholars led the world in science, medicine, and philosophy

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Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

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The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.

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The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.

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The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

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Deborah Blum

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Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.

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The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.

Quackery
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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.

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How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.

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

Traffic
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Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Alexander the Great
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Tania Gergel

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The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.

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A Planet of Viruses
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Carl Zimmer

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University of Chicago Press, 2011.

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
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Adam Rutherford

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The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.

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10,000 Years of Swimming. Hachette Books. 2020.

The Soul of a Woman
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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.

The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene

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The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.

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Ha-Joon Chang

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The User’s Guide. Pelican, 2014.

Crisis in the Eurozone
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Costas Lapavitsas

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Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.

Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl

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Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

Hidden Figures
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Charles Fishman

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The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.

The Extended Phenotype
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Richard Dawkins

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The Long Reach of the Gene. Oxford University Press, 1982.

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William J. Bernstein

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How Trade Shaped the World. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.

Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl

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Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

Empress
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Ruby Lal

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The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.

Catch Me If You Can
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Frank Abagnale

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The True Story of a Real Fake. Broadway Books, 2002.

Pandemic
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Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Einstein
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Walter Isaacson

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His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

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William M. LeoGrande

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The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

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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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Yusra Mardini

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From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph. Pan MacMillan, 2018

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Rejection Proof

Rejection Proof

Jia Jiang

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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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