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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, John Barry

Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity, David Bodanis

Coal: A Human History, Barbara Freese

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, Susan Freinkel

Feathers: An Evolution of a Natural Miracle, Thor Hanson

The Disappearing Spoon & Other True Tales of Madness, Love, & the History of the from the Periodic Table of the Elements, Sam Kean

The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy, Dave Madden

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach

The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, Rachel Shtier

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, Dava Sobel

Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, Robert Sullivan

Steam: The Untold Story of America's Greatest Invention, Andrea J. Sutcliffe

Sand: The Never-ending Story, Miochael Welland

The Bomb: A New History, Stephen Michael Younger

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World, Tom Zoellner

 

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