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Microhistories: Physical Sciences
Exhaustively researched, and usually entertaining histories of one thing.
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Mathematics
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
by
Simon Singh
Call Number: 512.74 SIN
ISBN: 0802713319
Hidden Harmonies: The Life and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
by
Robert Kaplan & Ellen Kaplan
Call Number: 516.22 KAP
ISBN: 9781596915220
Perfect Figures: The Lore of Numbers and How we Learned to Count
by
Bunny Crumpacker
Call Number: 513 CRU
ISBN: 9780312360054
The Joy of [Pi]
by
David Blatner
Call Number: 516.22 BLA
ISBN: 0670879487
Oceans
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveris, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by
Simon Winchester
Call Number: 551.4613 WIN
ISBN: 9780061702587
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
by
Donovan Hohn
Call Number: 551.462 HOH
ISBN: 9780670022199
Geology
Coal: a Human History
by
Barbara Freese
Call Number: 338.2724 FRE
ISBN: 0738204005
Sand: The Never-Ending Story
by
Michael Welland
Call Number: 553.622 WEL
ISBN: 9780520254374
Physics
Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
by
Amir D. Aczel
Call Number: 530.092 ACZ
ISBN: 0743464788
Weather and Astronomy
Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Start that Gives us Life
by
Richard Cohen
Call Number: 523.7 COH
ISBN: 9781400068753
Lives of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System
by
Richard Cornfield
Call Number: 523.2 COR
ISBN: 9780465014033
Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of our Sun
by
Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff
Call Number: 523.7 GOL
ISBN: 0674004671
The Big Splat: or How our Moon Came to Be
by
Dana Mackenzie
Call Number: 523.3 MAC
ISBN: 0471150576
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
by
Richard Hamblyn
Call Number: 551.576 HAM
ISBN: 9780374177157
The Sun's Heartbeat and Other Stories from the Life of the Star that Powers our Planet
by
Bob Berman
Call Number: 523.7 BER
ISBN: 9780316091015
Geography and Travel
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by
Dava Sobel
Call Number: 526.62 SOBEL
ISBN: 0802713122
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by
Mary Roach
Call Number: 629.455 ROA
ISBN: 9780393068474
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America its Name
by
Toby Lester
Call Number: 912.73 LES
ISBN: 9781416535317
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
by
Rebecca Solnit
Call Number: 796.5109 SOL
ISBN: 9780670882090
Chemistry
Air
by
William Bryant Logan
Call Number: 551.5 LOG
ISBN: 9780393067989
Boom, Bust, Boom
by
Bill Carter
Call Number: 546.652 CAR
ISBN: 9781439136447
Drinking Water
by
James Salzman
Call Number: 363.61 SAL
ISBN: 9781590207208
Hydrogen: The Essential Element
by
John S. Rigden
Call Number: 546.2 RIG
ISBN: 0674007387
Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water
by
Philip Ball
Call Number: 553.7 BAL
ISBN: 9780374186289
Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
by
Nick Lane
Call Number: 546.721 LAN
ISBN: 0198508034
Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
by
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Call Number: 546.8 ALD
ISBN: 9780061824722
The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by
Sam Kean
Call Number: 546 KEA
ISBN: 9780316051644
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by
Deborah Blum
Call Number: 614.13 BLU
ISBN: 9781594202438
Uranium: War Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World
by
Tom Zoellner
Call Number: 546.431 ZOE
ISBN: 9780670020645
Time
Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
by
David Ewing Duncan
Call Number: 529.3 DUN
ISBN: 0380975289
The Man who found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity
by
Jack Repcheck
Call Number: 550.92 REP
ISBN: 073820692X
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
by
Clark Blaise
Call Number: 389.17 BLA
ISBN: 0375401768
Language and Writing
The Devil's Details
by
Chuck Zerby
Call Number: 907.2 ZER
ISBN: 9781931229050
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