Islamic Civilization & Golden Age
The era when Muslim scholars led the world in science, medicine, and philosophy

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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.
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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.
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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.
Tom Vanderbilt
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
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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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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
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The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
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Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.
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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.
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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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From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph. Pan MacMillan, 2018
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