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Isaac Newton
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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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The Wright Brothers
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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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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Madame Curie: A Biography
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My Inventions
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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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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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Democracy in America
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The Right Stuff
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
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Connections
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A History of Venice
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A History of Western Philosophy
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work
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Michelangelo : The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture
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March Of The Titans The Complete History Of The White Race
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Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race
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The Hidden History of the Human Race: The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology
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The Astronaut Wives Club
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: with Related Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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In Search of the Dark Ages
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The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)
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Saint Joan of Arc
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Watt's Perfect Engine : Steam and the Age of Invention
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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