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Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space - Fred Scharmen
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science - John Tresch
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein - Kathryn Harkup
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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc - Hugh Aldersey-Williams
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning - Marcelo Gleiser
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Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers- Matt Kaplan
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World- Edward Dolnick
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World- Steven Johnson
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