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A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.22 � 408,425 ratings � published 2003
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.93 � 54,138 ratings � published 2010
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 � 1,174,360 ratings � published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.13 � 777,051 ratings � published 2010
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 � 74,349 ratings � published 1995
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.03 � 28,723 ratings � published 1962
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 � 439,381 ratings � published 1997
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 � 23,658 ratings � published 1986
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.97 � 9,745 ratings � published 2008
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 � 461,149 ratings � published 1988
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 � 119,318 ratings � published 1859
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.89 � 54,763 ratings � published 2006
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.36 � 53,158 ratings � published 2016
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.40 � 154,051 ratings � published 1980
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.34 � 109,535 ratings � published 2010
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.75 � 29,928 ratings � published 1999
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.19 � 274,586 ratings � published 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.32 � 27,928 ratings � published 2015
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 � 36,212 ratings � published 2010
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 � 196,635 ratings � published 2017
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.27 � 210,872 ratings � published 1985
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 � 5,904 ratings � published 2011
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.82 � 13,825 ratings � published 2001
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.99 � 63,308 ratings � published 2014
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.14 � 188,873 ratings � published 2014
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 � 171,134 ratings � published 2016
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.29 � 77,406 ratings � published 1995
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.30 � 28,218 ratings � published 1999
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 � 1,215 ratings � published 2002
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.10 � 100,413 ratings � published 1999
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.95 � 59,056 ratings � published 2010
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 � 118,521 ratings � published 1994
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 � 76,242 ratings � published 2014
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.78 � 2,132 ratings � published 2015
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.06 � 231,606 ratings � published 2003
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.97 � 6,966 ratings � published 1991
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 � 39,882 ratings � published 1987
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 � 868 ratings � published 2015
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.11 � 20,257 ratings � published 2013
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.16 � 187,420 ratings � published 1976
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.20 � 8,338 ratings � published 2012
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.04 � 16,704 ratings � published 2011
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.32 � 93,152 ratings � published 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.21 � 37,151 ratings � published 2018
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.26 � 13,327 ratings � published 2014
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 � 721 ratings � published 1992
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.01 � 10,548 ratings � published 2012
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 3.88 � 21,359 ratings � published 2003
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.08 � 28,191 ratings � published 1991
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as science-history)
avg rating 4.27 � 82,451 ratings � published 2018
“No one listened to us! No one listened to the scientists and the doctors. They pulled science and medicine into politics. Of course they did!”
― Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
― Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
(Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)”
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(Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)”
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