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“What I really liked about A Short History of Nearly Everything is that it gives an excellent account of a lot of the personalities and the interconnectedness of important discoveries in cosmology and elsewhere. He does such a great job of bringing together our understanding of cosmology, evolution, paleontology, and geology in a very, very fluid way.” Read more...
David Goldberg, Physicist
“It’s full of human stories within all this information which makes it entertaining, as well as informative.” Read more...
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The Elegant Universe
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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The Extended Phenotype
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The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix
by James Watson -
The Gendered Brain
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The Man Who Found the Missing Link
by Pat Shipman
