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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Salt: A World History
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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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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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A Perfect Red
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
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The True History of Chocolate
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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A History of the Breast
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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