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“What I really liked about A Short History of Nearly Everything is that it gives an excellent account of a lot of the personalities and the interconnectedness of important discoveries in cosmology and elsewhere. He does such a great job of bringing together our understanding of cosmology, evolution, paleontology, and geology in a very, very fluid way.” Read more...
David Goldberg, Physicist
“It’s full of human stories within all this information which makes it entertaining, as well as informative.” Read more...
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The Elegant Universe
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
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H2O: A Biography of Water
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A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
by Patricia Fara -
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are
by Alan Jasanoff -
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
by Alan Stern & David Grinspoon
