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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by Sherry Turkle
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
by Edward Dolnick
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
by Christopher Potter
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Victorian Scientist (British Library)
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Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity
by Robert Tavernor
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Absinthe and Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously
by William Gurstelle
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What Technology Wants
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America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation
by Jim Rasenberger
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Sundials: History, Art, People, Science
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The Day We Found the Universe
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