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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
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The Theory That Would Not Die

By Sharon Bertsch McGrayne ,

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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
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God's Philosophers

By James Hannam ,

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The Unlocked Path
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The Unlocked Path

By Janis Robinson Daly ,

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The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450
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The Beginnings of Western Science

By David C. Lindberg ,

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The Nothing That is: A Natural History of Zero
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The Nothing That is

By Robert Kaplan , Ellen Kaplan (illustrator) ,

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The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology
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The Meaning of Fossils

By Martin J.S. Rudwick ,

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Mysteries of the Quantum Universe
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Mysteries of the Quantum Universe

By Thibault Damour , Mathieu Burniat ,

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Science: A Four Thousand Year History
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Science

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Koala: A Historical Biography
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Koala

By Ann Moyal ,

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The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts
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The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages

By Edward Grant ,

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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection
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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

By Evelleen Richards ,

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The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World
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The Baroque Cycle

By Neal Stephenson ,

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Science and Islam: A History
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Science and Islam

By Ehsan Masood ,

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Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness
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Bittersweet

By Chris Feudtner ,

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Fabulous Science : Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery
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Fabulous Science

By John Waller ,

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SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future
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SuperFuel

By Richard Martin ,

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Scientific Instruments of the 17th and 18th Centuries and Their Makers
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Scientific Instruments of the 17th and 18th Centuries and Their Makers

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Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M.
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Permanent Present Tense

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World as Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men
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World as Laboratory

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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
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Brilliant Blunders

By Mario Livio ,

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The Scientific Revolution
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The Scientific Revolution

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Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day
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Hidden Systems

By Dan Nott ,

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Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
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Chasing Venus

By Andrea Wulf ,

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The Seeds of Life
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The Seeds of Life

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Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
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Rocket Girl

By George D. Morgan ,

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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
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Too Much to Know

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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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A More Perfect Heaven

By Dava Sobel ,

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Theories of Vision from Al-kindi to Kepler
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Theories of Vision from Al-kindi to Kepler

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Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution
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Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution

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Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives
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Science and Religion

By John Hedley Brooke ,

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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
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A Social History of Truth

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Revolution in Science
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Revolution in Science

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Almost Like A Whale
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Almost Like A Whale

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Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
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Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

By Sigmund Freud , James Strachey (translator) ,

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Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis
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Why Freud Was Wrong

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The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
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The Book of Secrets

By Deepak Chopra ,

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A History of the Sciences
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A History of the Sciences

By Stephen F. Mason ,

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The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
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The Science of Shakespeare

By Dan Falk ,

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Patterns of Discovery: an Inquiry Into the Conceptual Foundations of Science
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Patterns of Discovery

By Norwood Russell Hanson ,

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Modern Food, Moral Food
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Modern Food, Moral Food

By Helen Zoe Veit ,

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