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You'll enjoy these titles because: you enjoy the intersection of science, history, and society smartly (and often wittily) recounted.

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  • A City on Mars

    Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

    Weinersmith, Kelly,
    Book, 2023New York : Penguin Press, 2023. — TL790 .W45 2023
  • The Disappearing Spoon

    and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements

    Kean, Sam
    Book, 2010New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. — QD466 .K37 2010
  • My Planet

    Finding Humor Int the Oddest Places

    Roach, Mary
    Book, 2013New York : The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., [2013] — PN6165 .R635 2013
  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

    Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death

    Doughty, Caitlin,
    Book, 2019New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019] — HQ1073 .D68 2019
  • Eager

    The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

    Goldfarb, Ben
    eBook, 20182018. — EBOOK
  • The Feather Thief

    Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

    Johnson, Kirk W.,
    Book, 2018New York : Viking, [2018] — HV6665.G72 J64 2018
  • Lives in Ruins

    Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble

    Johnson, Marilyn, 1954-
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014] — CC175 .J64 2014
  • Severed

    a History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

    Larson, Frances, 1976-
    Book, 2014New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014] — GT498.H43 L37 2014
  • What If?

    Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    Munroe, Randall,
    Book, 2024New York : Dey Street Books, 2024. — Q173 .M965 2024
  • The Body

    a Guide for Occupants

    Bryson, Bill,
    Book, 2019New York : Doubleday, 2019. — QM23.2 .B79 2019
  • The Bastard Brigade

    the True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

    Kean, Sam,
    Book, 2019New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — D810.S2 K43 2019
  • Caesar's Last Breath

    Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

    Kean, Sam,
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — QC161 .K43 2017
  • The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

    the History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

    Kean, Sam,
    Book, 2014New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014. — QP376 .K36 2014
  • The Violinist's Thumb

    and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

    Kean, Sam
    Book, 2012New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012. — QH431 .K24 2012
  • Grunt

    the Curious Science of Humans at War

    Roach, Mary
    Book, 2016New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2016. — U43.U4 R63 2016
  • Gulp

    Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

    Roach, Mary
    Book, 2013New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013] — QP145 .R53 2013
  • Bonk

    the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

    Roach, Mary
    Book, 2008New York : Norton, c2008. — QP251 .R568 2008
  • Spook

    Science Tackles the Afterlife

    Roach, Mary
    Book, 2005New York : W.W. Norton and Co., c2005. — BL535 .R63 2005
  • Stiff

    the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    Roach, Mary
    Book, 2003New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.