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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,397 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 — 11,844 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,264 ratings
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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3.97 avg rating — 10,010 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.78 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
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4.11 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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3.65 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
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The Scientific Revolution
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3.62 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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3.59 avg rating — 309 ratings
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
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4.13 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
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3.70 avg rating — 693 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 806,519 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.88 avg rating — 11,707 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,738 ratings
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The House Of Wisdom
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3.87 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
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3.55 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Thunderstruck
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3.78 avg rating — 56,723 ratings
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The Crime of Galileo
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3.71 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
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3.84 avg rating — 4,845 ratings
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
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3.40 avg rating — 5,463 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,139 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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4.23 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
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3.73 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
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3.33 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution
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3.83 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
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3.98 avg rating — 825 ratings
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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3.83 avg rating — 12,881 ratings
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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4.01 avg rating — 3,715 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
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4.22 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
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3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Has Feminism Changed Science?
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3.86 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
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3.61 avg rating — 172 ratings
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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
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3.61 avg rating — 296 ratings
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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3.99 avg rating — 5,131 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.10 avg rating — 5,886 ratings
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Never Pure
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3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
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3.87 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
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4.03 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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3.92 avg rating — 6,492 ratings
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The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science
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4.02 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science
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4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4.05 avg rating — 10,889 ratings
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Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World
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3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology
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4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School
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3.78 avg rating — 87 ratings
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In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics
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3.57 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Storage Box of Tradition: Kwakiutl Art, Anthropologists, and Museums, 1881-1981
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The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods
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3.93 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
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3.80 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact
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3.76 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle
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3.97 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
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3.61 avg rating — 76 ratings
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A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
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3.77 avg rating — 349 ratings
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A Social History of Knowledge, Volume 1: From Gutenberg to Diderot
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3.93 avg rating — 191 ratings
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