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The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England - Robert Schofield

A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire - Amy Greenfield

Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East - Ralph S. Hattox

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Omar Khayyam

Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley - C. Stewart Gillmor

The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite - Ann Finkbeiner

Lives of the Artists - Giorgio Vasari

Henry Ford's Own Story: How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power That Goes With Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch With Humanity - Rose Wilder Lane

When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 - Louise Levathes

The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford - Stuart W. Leslie

Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz, and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World - R.T. Naylor

Melting the Earth: The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions - Haraldur Sigurdsson

Lord Elgin and the Marbles - William St. Clair

UNIX: A History and a Memoir - Brian Kernighan

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

Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure - Langdon Gilkey

Merging Traffic: The Consolidation of the International Automobile Industry - John A. C. Conybeare

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo - Michelangelo

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed - Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos

On the Nature of Things - Lucretius

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance - Jim Al-Khalili

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance - Paul Strathern

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin

Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum - James Delbourgo

The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon - Brian Clegg

Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft - Paul Allen

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant - Daniel Tammet

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story - Michael Lewis

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. - Ron Chernow

Losing the Signal: The Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry - Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger - Greg Steinmetz

The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats - Daniel Stone

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul - Howard Schultz

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe - George Dyson

For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History - Sarah Rose