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Third Thoughts	Weinberg, Steven	PAPERBACK	08/13/2019	$18.00
Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy, With a New Afterword	Schilling, Govert	PAPERBACK	03/18/2019	$18.95
Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science	Numbers, Ronald L. Kampourakis, Kostas	PAPERBACK	01/07/2020	$19.00
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum	Delbourgo, James	PAPERBACK	03/18/2019	$20.00
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study	Vaillant, George E.	PAPERBACK	05/04/2015	$20.00
The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years	Thorson, Robert M.	PAPERBACK	04/30/2019	$21.00
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea	Sussman, Robert Wald	PAPERBACK	03/14/2016	$21.00
Science and Technology in Post-Mao China	Simon, Denis Fred Goldman, Merle	PAPERBACK	09/15/1988	$21.00
To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure	Petroski, Henry	PAPERBACK	11/24/2014	$22.00
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way	Huth, John Edward	PAPERBACK	11/16/2015	$24.00
Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia	Graham, Loren	HARDCOVER	04/11/2016	$24.95
Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life	Gould, Roy R.	HARDCOVER	05/07/2018	$24.95
A Brief History of the Harvard University Cyclotrons	Wilson, Richard	PAPERBACK	05/30/2004	$25.00
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal	Dreger, Alice Domurat	PAPERBACK	10/31/2005	$25.00
Third Thoughts	Weinberg, Steven	HARDCOVER	08/06/2018	$25.95
Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes	Cowen, Ron	HARDCOVER	05/06/2019	$26.95
Affections. Diseases 1. Diseases 2	Hippocrates Potter, Paul	HARDCOVER	01/01/1988	$28.00
Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment	Hippocrates Potter, Paul	HARDCOVER	06/28/2022	$28.00	Not yet available
Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment	Hippocrates Jones, W. H. S.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1923	$28.00
Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases	Hippocrates Potter, Paul	HARDCOVER	01/01/1988	$28.00
Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution	Moran, Bruce T.	PAPERBACK	09/01/2006	$28.00
Epidemics 2, 4-7	Hippocrates Smith, Wesley D.	HARDCOVER	12/31/1994	$28.00
Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Heracleitus: On the Universe	Hippocrates Heracleitus Jones, W. H. S.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1931	$28.00
On Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. Mochlicon	Hippocrates Withington, E. T.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1928	$28.00
Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas	Hippocrates Potter, Paul	HARDCOVER	01/01/1995	$28.00
Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Physician (Ch. 1). Dentition	Hippocrates Jones, W. H. S.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1923	$28.00
Tetrabiblos	Ptolemy Robbins, F. E.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1940	$28.00
Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle	Rieppel, Lukas	HARDCOVER	06/24/2019	$29.95
The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years	Thorson, Robert M.	HARDCOVER	04/24/2017	$29.95
Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove	Goodchild, Peter	HARDCOVER	10/29/2004	$29.95
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine	Downs, Jim	HARDCOVER	09/07/2021	$29.95
Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos	Moskvitch, Katia	HARDCOVER	09/15/2020	$29.95
The Number of the Heavens: A History of the Multiverse and the Quest to Understand the Cosmos	Siegfried, Tom	HARDCOVER	09/17/2019	$29.95
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History	Pimentel, Juan Mason, Peter	HARDCOVER	01/09/2017	$29.95
Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy	Schilling, Govert	HARDCOVER	07/31/2017	$29.95
Vera Rubin: A Life	Mitton, Jacqueline Mitton, Simon	HARDCOVER	02/11/2021	$29.95
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China	Elman, Benjamin A.	PAPERBACK	04/20/2009	$30.00
Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies	Landecker, Hannah	PAPERBACK	03/30/2010	$30.00
A Cursing Brain?: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome	Kushner, Howard I.	PAPERBACK	09/01/2000	$30.00
Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics	Alexander, Amir	PAPERBACK	10/15/2011	$30.00
Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness	Rigden, John S.	PAPERBACK	04/30/2006	$30.00
Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius	Schweber, Silvan S.	PAPERBACK	03/30/2010	$30.00
The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life	Mindell, David P.	PAPERBACK	10/31/2007	$30.00
Fresh: A Perishable History	Freidberg, Susanne	PAPERBACK	10/01/2010	$30.00
From Clockwork to Crapshoot: A History of Physics	Newton, Roger G.	PAPERBACK	03/30/2010	$30.00
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion	Numbers, Ronald L.	PAPERBACK	11/08/2010	$30.00
Galileo’s Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter	Newton, Roger G.	PAPERBACK	10/31/2005	$30.00
Hydrogen: The Essential Element	Rigden, John S.	PAPERBACK	11/30/2003	$30.00
In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA	Schwartz, James	PAPERBACK	03/30/2010	$30.00
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America	Slade, Giles	PAPERBACK	10/30/2007	$30.00

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