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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 457,017 ratings
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,937 ratings
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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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4.31 avg rating — 10,525 ratings
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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4.11 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
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3.99 avg rating — 5,042 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
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4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,825 ratings
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
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3.96 avg rating — 9,533 ratings
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The Soul of a New Machine
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4.12 avg rating — 9,453 ratings
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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3.86 avg rating — 6,918 ratings
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The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
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4.26 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing: From the Stone Age to Lean Manufacturing and Beyond
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4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West
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4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
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4.11 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Inner History of Devices
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3.85 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
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3.57 avg rating — 427 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,209 ratings
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
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4.03 avg rating — 1,977 ratings
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Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine
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4.19 avg rating — 802 ratings
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100 Suns
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4.41 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
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3.88 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century
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4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945
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4.37 avg rating — 545 ratings
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The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-playing Machine That Fooled the World
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3.93 avg rating — 733 ratings
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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4.13 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
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Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
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3.27 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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Science and Technology in Historic Preservation
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction
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4.07 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Aircraft Versus Submarine 1912-1945 The Evolution of Anti-submarine Aircraft
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
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4.07 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 803,989 ratings
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Ada Lovelace
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3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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4.12 avg rating — 39,774 ratings
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
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3.73 avg rating — 634 ratings
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The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature's Book
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3.85 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
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3.84 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
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3.90 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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3.95 avg rating — 60,292 ratings
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Ada Byron Lovelace: The Lady and the Computer
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
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3.94 avg rating — 2,489 ratings
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Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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But How Do It Know? The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone
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4.45 avg rating — 985 ratings
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Radar Days
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,662 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,206 ratings
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Ada Lovelace: The Unauthorized Guide to the History, Life and Accomplishments of the First Computer Programmer
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology
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3.09 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Invention That Changed the World
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4.22 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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3.82 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
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3.82 avg rating — 802 ratings
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Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
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3.94 avg rating — 598 ratings
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Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis
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4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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4.22 avg rating — 3,217 ratings
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Seizing the Enigma: Race to Break the German U-boat Codes, 1939-43
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3.94 avg rating — 936 ratings
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge
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4.03 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing
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4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II
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3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control
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3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The BMW Century: The Ultimate Performance Machines
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3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
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4.17 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society
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3.78 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
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3.96 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,858 ratings
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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
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4.03 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Instruments of darkness: The history of electronic warfare
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4.33 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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4.01 avg rating — 3,010 ratings
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The Secret in Building 26
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3.70 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
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3.72 avg rating — 671 ratings
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CODEBREAKERS: INSIDE STORY OF BLETCHLEY PARK: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park
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3.74 avg rating — 466 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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4.09 avg rating — 4,687 ratings
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science (Princeton Science Library, 91)
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3.94 avg rating — 643 ratings
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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4.40 avg rating — 24,419 ratings
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Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb
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3.50 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Dignifying Science
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3.62 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Two-Fisted Science
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3.45 avg rating — 151 ratings
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
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3.56 avg rating — 818 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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4.16 avg rating — 8,563 ratings
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
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4.17 avg rating — 8,295 ratings
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
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4.15 avg rating — 10,026 ratings
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
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3.86 avg rating — 10,970 ratings
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Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
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3.89 avg rating — 250 ratings
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The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 505 ratings
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The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession
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3.85 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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3.18 avg rating — 3,387 ratings
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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3.87 avg rating — 2,441 ratings
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
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3.92 avg rating — 3,356 ratings
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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
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4.13 avg rating — 935 ratings
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