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Before Galileo by John Freely

The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon

The Poison Squad : One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum

Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved …

Rocket men by Craig Nelson

Author Craig Nelson restores the mystery and majesty to an event that may have become too familiar for most people …

Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh

Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. …

ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Hadley Wickham

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

"New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young …

The trouble with reality by Brooke Gladstone

"Reality. It used to seem so simple -- reality just was, like the weather. Why question it, let alone disagree …

The Rye Baker by Stanley Ginsberg

"True rye bread--the kind that stands at the center of northern and eastern European food culture--is something very special. With …

The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense by Daniel Menaker

God Bless the Gargoyles by Dav Pilkey

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction is a book by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner released in 2015. …

Excellent Daughters by Katherine Zoepf

"For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives …

Disrupted by Dan Lyons