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The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain

The Radical Potter

Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation...

Tristram Hunt

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$55 

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The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

The Light Ages

A Medieval Journey of Discovery...

Seb Falk

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$24.99 

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Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century

Power Play

Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of...

Tim Higgins

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$35 

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Small Inventions that Made a Big Difference

Small Inventions that Made a Big...

Helen Pilcher

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$35 

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The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI

The Road to Conscious Machines

The Story of AI

Michael Wooldridge

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$22.99 

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The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention

The Pattern Seekers

A New Theory of Human Invention...

Simon Baron-Cohen

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$39.99 

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The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

The Knowledge Machine

How an Unreasonable Idea Created...

Michael Strevens

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The Clock and the Camshaft: And Other Medieval Inventions We Still Can't Live Without

The Clock and the Camshaft

And Other Medieval Inventions We...

John W. Farrell

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The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

The Light Ages

A Medieval Journey of Discovery...

Seb Falk

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$39.99 

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Charles and Ada: The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership

Charles and Ada

The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership...

James Essinger

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$42.99 

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30-Second Engineering: 50 key fields, methods, and principles, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Engineering

50 key fields, methods, and principles,...

James Trevelyan

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$27.99 

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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Exactly

How Precision Engineers Created...

Simon Winchester

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$24.99 

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Biographic: Tesla

Biographic

Tesla

Brian Clegg

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$19.99 

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Going Deep: John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine

Going Deep

John Philip Holland and the Invention...

Lawrence Goldstone

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$23.95 

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Plato's Alarm Clock: And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions

Plato's Alarm Clock

And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions...

James M. Russell

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$19.99 

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Change-makers: The pin-up book of pioneers, troublemakers and radicals

Change-makers

The pin-up book of pioneers, troublemakers...

Matilda Dixon-Smith

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$29.99 

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Inventions: A Children's Encyclopedia

Inventions

A Children's Encyclopedia

DK

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$39.99 

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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World

Quirky

The Remarkable Story of the Traits,...

Melissa A Schilling

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$22.99 

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30-Second Leonardo da Vinci: His 50 greatest ideas and inventions, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Leonardo da Vinci

His 50 greatest ideas and inventions,...

Marina Wallace

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$19.99 

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Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft

Engineers

From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft...

Adam Hart-Davis

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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Wonderland

How Play Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson

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The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions

The Wheel

Inventions and Reinventions

Richard Bulliet

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Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon

Remarkable Engineers

From Riquet to Shannon

Ioan James (University of Oxford)...

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$65.95 

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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science

The Soul of Genius

Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and...

Jeffrey Orens

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$45 

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The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI

The Road to Conscious Machines

The Story of AI

Michael Wooldridge

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$35 

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The Real World of Victorian Steampunk: Steam Planes and Radiophones

The Real World of Victorian Steampunk...

Steam Planes and Radiophones

Webb, Simon

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$59.95 

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Inventor Lab: Awesome Builds for Smart Makers

Inventor Lab

Awesome Builds for Smart Makers...

DK

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$24.99 

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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

The Perfectionists

How Precision Engineers Created...

Simon Winchester

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$35.95 

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The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science

The Knowledge Machine

How an Unreasonable Idea Created...

Michael Strevens

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$22.99 

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The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain

The Good Sharps

The Eighteenth-Century Family that...

Hester Grant

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$22.99 

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Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

Cubed

The Puzzle of Us All

Erno Rubik

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$22.99 

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Brainstorms and Mindfarts: The Best and Brightest, Dumbest and Dimmest Inventions in American History

Brainstorms and Mindfarts

The Best and Brightest, Dumbest...

Jim Downey

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$29.99 

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