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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,705 ratings
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The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century
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3.95 avg rating — 538 ratings
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
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4.14 avg rating — 6,194 ratings
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Connections
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4.25 avg rating — 2,483 ratings
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The Way Things Work
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4.36 avg rating — 2,789 ratings
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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3.67 avg rating — 1,887 ratings
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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4.11 avg rating — 11,810 ratings
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
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4.25 avg rating — 24,159 ratings
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The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story About an Accidental Invention
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4.09 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
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1001 Inventions That Changed the World
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4.18 avg rating — 396 ratings
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What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors
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4.21 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Awesome Minds: The Inventors of LEGO® Toys: An Entertaining History about the Creation of LEGO Toys. Educational and Entertaining.
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4.26 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Wright Brothers
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4.17 avg rating — 97,779 ratings
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First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers (DK Readers L4)
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3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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African-American Inventions That Changed The World: Influential Inventors and Their Revolutionary Creations
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4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
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3.99 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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4.22 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
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Who Were the Wright Brothers?
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4.25 avg rating — 899 ratings
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The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
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4.10 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 55,775 ratings
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Who Was Nikola Tesla?
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4.24 avg rating — 724 ratings
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My Inventions and Other Writings
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3.93 avg rating — 827 ratings
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
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3.75 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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3.99 avg rating — 3,870 ratings
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Who Was Milton Hershey?
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4.32 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,512 ratings
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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4.26 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
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Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All
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3.71 avg rating — 543 ratings
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
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3.67 avg rating — 1,499 ratings
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Who Was Steve Jobs?
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4.20 avg rating — 2,194 ratings
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Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll
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3.99 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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3.95 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
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Who Was Milton Bradley?
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4.24 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
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3.60 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
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4.14 avg rating — 2,587 ratings
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Who Was Marie Curie?
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4.27 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
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The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
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3.94 avg rating — 696 ratings
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Who Was Louis Braille?
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4.16 avg rating — 599 ratings
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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
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3.32 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Who Was Isaac Newton?
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4.12 avg rating — 964 ratings
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We Are All Targets: How Renegade Hackers Invented Cyber War and Unleashed an Age of Global Chaos
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3.81 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
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4.16 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Who Was Ben Franklin?
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4.10 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
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4.17 avg rating — 927 ratings
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?
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4.15 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
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4.05 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Who Was Albert Einstein?
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4.22 avg rating — 4,192 ratings
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
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3.58 avg rating — 650 ratings
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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3.87 avg rating — 9,329 ratings
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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3.67 avg rating — 287 ratings
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100 Scientists Who Made History (DK 100 Things That Made History)
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4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 2,139 ratings
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Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
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3.74 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Scientist, Scientist, Who Do You See?: A Rhyming Book about Famous Scientists for Kids
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3.91 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
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4.19 avg rating — 1,620 ratings
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Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
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4.24 avg rating — 2,261 ratings
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Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
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3.85 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Who Is Bill Gates?
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4.24 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
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A Thousand Glass Flowers: Marietta Barovier and the Invention of the Rosetta Bead
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4.11 avg rating — 274 ratings
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100 People Who Made History: Meet the People Who Shaped the Modern World (100 in History)
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4.06 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
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4.18 avg rating — 3,163 ratings
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Oh, the Things They Invented!: All About Great Inventors
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3.94 avg rating — 110 ratings
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12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
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4.21 avg rating — 502 ratings
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1,000 Inventions & Discoveries
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4.22 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Plato's Alarm Clock: And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions
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3.58 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation
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4.39 avg rating — 36 ratings
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How the Cookie Crumbled: The True (and Not-So-True) Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
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4.14 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
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3.79 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Incredible Inventions
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3.86 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
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3.88 avg rating — 246 ratings
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The Invention of Tradition
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3.95 avg rating — 1,544 ratings
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The Story of Kites: Amazing Chinese Inventions
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3.68 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
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3.65 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Invention (DK Eyewitness Books)
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4.05 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Story of Inventions
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4.29 avg rating — 211 ratings
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When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today
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3.93 avg rating — 1,085 ratings
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Earmuffs for Everyone!: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs
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3.59 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life (Volume 1997) (Women in Culture and Society)
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
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3.72 avg rating — 2,577 ratings
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Marvelous Mattie
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4.07 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Frank Zappa FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Father of Invention
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3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
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4.04 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Inventions
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4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
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4.08 avg rating — 6,900 ratings
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The Royal Society: And the Invention of Modern Science
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3.36 avg rating — 154 ratings
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101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Art of Chindogu
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3.85 avg rating — 162 ratings
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The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
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2.94 avg rating — 146 ratings
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100 Inventions That Changed the World
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3.31 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
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3.90 avg rating — 2,411 ratings
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Know It All Great Inventions: The 50 Greatest Inventions, Each Explained in Under a Minute (Know It All, 7)
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3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
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3.88 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
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3.91 avg rating — 913 ratings
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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3.93 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
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The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
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3.90 avg rating — 589 ratings
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
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3.44 avg rating — 999 ratings
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Inventors and Their Bright Ideas
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4.07 avg rating — 231 ratings
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52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders
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4.21 avg rating — 77 ratings
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100 Inventions That Made History
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4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
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4.29 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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