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A Man and His Myth

Newton

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John Gribbin

Matters of Gravity

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

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John Gribbin

OK Computer

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

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Steve Fuller

Surviving Darwin

Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation

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Jerry Brotton

What Killed the Cat?

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

By Philip Ball

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May 2012 Issue

Frank Close

Joint Efforts

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

By David Kaiser

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June 2012 Issue

Patricia Fara

Planetspotting

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf

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June 2012 Issue

David Bodanis

Conductors of Progress

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

By Jon Gertner

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Thomas Levenson

Hearts and Minds

Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea

By Thomas Wright

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February 2005 Issue

James Le Fanu

Pickled Parts

The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, the Father of Modern Surgery

By Wendy Moore

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October 2012 Issue

David Bodanis

Discovery Channels

Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science

By Morton A Meyers

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October 2012 Issue

James Le Fanu

Teach Them to Sit Still

Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD

By Matthew Smith

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March 2013 Issue

David Bodanis

Big Bad Net

To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don't Exist

By Evgeny Morozov

Who Owns the Future?

By Jaron Lanier

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May 2013 Issue

Seamus Perry

Up, Up and Away

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

By Richard Holmes

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December 2013 Issue

Alex Goodall

Dropping the Screwdriver

Command and Control

By Eric Schlosser

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December 2013 Issue

John Gribbin

Science for Sale

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

By Philip Ball

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December 2013 Issue

Paul Addison

Don’t Mention the Tube Alloys

Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics

By Graham Farmelo

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December 2013 Issue

Andrew Brown

Instructions for Living

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

By J Craig Venter

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