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A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science

A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science

Alexander Boxer

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia

Bringing Elizabeth Home

Bringing Elizabeth Home

Ed Smart & Lois Smart

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Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language

Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over Words Shaped ...

Rosemarie Ostler

Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave

Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave

Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures From the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures ...

Sean B. Carroll

Pacifist, Or, My War and Louis Lepke

Pacifist, Or, My War and Louis Lepke

Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War

Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great ...

Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem

Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem

Ellen Kaplan & Robert Kaplan

Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge

Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge

Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children

Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children

Dorie McCullough Lawson

Wellington's Engineers: Military Engineering on the Peninsular War 1808-1814

Wellington's Engineers: Military Engineering on the Peninsular ...

Dr. Mark S. Thomson

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, ...

Margaret Visser

The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright

Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World

Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English ...

One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

The Codebreakers: The True Story of the Secret Intelligence Team That Changed the Course of the First World War

The Codebreakers: The True Story of the Secret Intelligence ...

James Wyllie & Michael McKinley

The Rival Queens

The Rival Queens

Nancy Goldstone

Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball

Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of ...

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It

American Aurora: A Democratic-Republ[..] Returns: The Suppressed ...

Richard N. Rosenfeld

Sandringham Days: The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk, 1862-1952

Sandringham Days: The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk, ...

War Plan Red: The United States' Secret Plan to Invade Canada and Canada's Secret Plan to Invade the United States

War Plan Red: The United States' Secret Plan to Invade Canada ...

Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

Michael Swaine & Paul Freiberger

Behind Hitler's Lines: The True Story of the Only Soldier to Fight for Both America and the Soviet Union in World War II

Behind Hitler's Lines: The True Story of the Only Soldier to ...

Thomas H. Taylor

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the ...

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian ...

The Secret Life of Lobsters

The Secret Life of Lobsters

The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers

The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall ...

Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall

Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century ...

Caroline Wells Healey Dall & Helen R. Deese

Louis Botha’s War: The Campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914–1915

Louis Botha’s War: The Campaign in German South-West Africa, ...

Keep the Change: A Collector's Tales of Lucky Pennies, Counterfeit C-Notes, and Other Curious Currency

Keep the Change: A Collector's Tales of Lucky Pennies, Counterfeit ...

Harley J. Spiller

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

Last Days With Cleopatra

Last Days With Cleopatra

Rome for Sale

Rome for Sale

Caesar Is Dead

Caesar Is Dead

The Normans and Their World

The Normans and Their World

Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew

Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew

Sworn for Mackinaw

Sworn for Mackinaw

Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee

Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee

Wings: One Hundred Years of British Aerial Warfare

Wings: One Hundred Years of British Aerial Warfare

The Spanish Armadas

The Spanish Armadas

New Heavens: My Life as a Fighter Pilot and a Founder of the Israel Air Force

New Heavens: My Life as a Fighter Pilot and a Founder of the ...

Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City's Vietnam Veterans

Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City's ...

Philip F. Napoli

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor

The Sinking of the Lancastria: The Twentieth Century's Deadliest Naval Disaster and Churchill's Plot to Make It Disappear

The Sinking of the Lancastria: The Twentieth Century's Deadliest ...

The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried ...

Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms With the Troubles

Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming ...

Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game

Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the ...

America's Women

America's Women

Once Upon a Town

Once Upon a Town

American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

Hannah Nordhaus

Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor

Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor

Martin Greenfield & Wynton Hall

For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma's Never-Ending War

For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story From Burma's ...

Dirty Deeds Done Cheap

Dirty Deeds Done Cheap

Margaret Douglas: The Other Tudor Princess

Margaret Douglas: The Other Tudor Princess

Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen

Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and ...

Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World

Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World

Jennifer Potter

Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes

Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes

Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Younger

Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger

Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII

Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King ...

Sarah-Beth Watkins