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The Seven Measures of the World
Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
Seduced By Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination Of Mathematics
Solving The Price Is Right: How Mathematics Can Improve Your Decisions on and off the Set of America's Celebrated Game Show
Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather
_The Material History of an Idea
The Price of Cake: And 99 Other Classic Mathematical Riddles
The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Poisonous Tales: A Forensic Examination of Poisons in Fiction
Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More
When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn
Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans
Lakes : Their Birth, Life, and Death
Elixir : A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
Oceans under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea
The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
_The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life
Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy
To Catch a Virus
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
A History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies