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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
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The Calendar : The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days
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Fermat's Enigma
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
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Thames: Sacred River
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906
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