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2025-08-18

3

botany science
The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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4.40

2024-06-15

4

history physics science war
The Swerve: How The Renaissance Began

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3.88

2025-02-03

4

history philosophy science
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4

biology philosophy physics science
The Log From The Sea Of Cortez

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3.84

2023-08-11

4

memoir nature science
The Map That Changed the World

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3.81

2022-03-23

3

history science
When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

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3

math philosophy physics science
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists

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4

history physics science
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

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3

philosophy science
Third Thoughts: The Universe We Still Don’t Know

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3

science physics
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Yuval Noah Harari

4.33

2020-10-16

4

anthropology history science
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

2019-01-16

4

physics science
The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

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3

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Forces of Nature

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Brian Cox

4.08

2018-02-28

4

physics science
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

2016-07-10

4

science
Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life

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3

biography physics science
Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science

2015-11-18

3

history science spaceflight
Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science

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Heinz-Otto Peitgen

4.33

2015-10-21

4

computing math science
The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World

2015-09-28

4

cosmology physics science
The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

2015-09-15

3

physics science
The Universal Man: Theodore Von Karman's Life in Aeronautics

2015-03-17

4

aeronautics biography math physics science
The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

2015-02-22

3

astronomy physics science
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3

science technology
Curie (Life & Times)

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3.74

2015-01-21

3

biography chemistry science physics
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

2014-11-06

3

science technology
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales from the Periodic Table

2014-10-08

4

chemistry science
Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider

2014-09-16

3

physics science
Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

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4

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2014-05-07

3

biography physics science
Brief History of Science

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Thomas Crump

3.76

2013-12-18

3

science
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

4

science
Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science

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4.00

2013-08-23

3

biography cosmology science
Isaac Newton

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3.79

2013-06-20

3

biography science
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

2013-05-14

3

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A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries)

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3

biography physics science
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

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4.27

4

physics science
The Science of Fractal Images

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4.12

math programming science
The Very First Light: The True Inside Story Of The Scientific Journey Back To The Dawn Of The Universe

2012-11-05

4

cosmology physics science
Einstein's Heroes

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Robyn Arianrhod

3.72

2012-10-24

4

physics science
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

2012-10-11

4

cosmology physics science
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Nikola Tesla

3.93

2012-10-08

4

science
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

2012-10-08

4

physics science
Chaos: Making a New Science

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James Gleick

4.03

2012-08-02

4

math science
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2012-06-25

3

biography physics science
Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes

2012-06-16

3

biography science
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

2012-05-29

4

biography physics science
Poincar Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe

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3

math science
The Universe in a Nutshell

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Stephen W. Hawking

4.18

2007-02-15

3

cosmology physics science