SCIENCE + History
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SCIENCE + History
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SCIENCE + History
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Incoming Resources
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- Consider the fork, a history of how we cook and eat, Bee Wilson ; with illustrations by Annabel Lee
- The theory that would not die, how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, & emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Brilliant blunders, from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe, Mario Livio
- A little history of science, William Bynum
- Finding zero, a mathematician's odyssey to uncover the origins of numbers, Amir D. Aczel
- Chasing Venus, the race to measure the heavens, Andrea Wulf
- The scientific revolution, an encyclopedia, William E. Burns
- The restless clock, a history of the centuries-long argument over what makes living things tick, Jessica Riskin
- You are here, from the compass to GPS, the history and future of how we find ourselves, Hiawatha Bray
- The great unknown, seven journeys to the frontiers of science, Marcus du Sautoy
- Jonas Salk, a life, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
- Uncharted, big data as a lens on human culture, Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel
- Superfuel, thorium, the green energy source for the future, Richard Martin
- The Copernicus complex, our cosmic significance in a universe of planets and probabilities, Caleb Scharf
- The perfect theory, a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity, Pedro G. Ferreira
- A short history of scientific thought, John Henry
- Engineering Eden, the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature, Jordan Fisher Smith
- Miracle cure, the creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine, William Rosen
- What the f, what swearing reveals about our language, our brains, and ourselves, Benjamin K. Bergen
- The island of knowledge, the limits of science and the search for meaning, Marcelo Gleiser
- The only woman in the room, why science is still a boys' club, Eileen Pollack
- Time travel, a history, James Gleick
- Against their will, the secret history of medical experimentation on children in cold war America, Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, and Gregory J. Dober
- The secret poisoner, a century of murder, Linda Stratmann
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