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- Blaise: Time Lord …Fleming, once the most celebrated Canadian engineer but now receeding into history, is widely called "the father of standard time" because he was the catalys…2 KB (365 words) - 23:51, 14 April 2009
- Legislating the Value of Pi … irrationality, has inspired a number of mystics and charlatans throughout history, particularly through vain efforts to "square the circle". Proof in 1882 t… …graphic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html "April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes"], ''National Geographic'', 1 April 2003, discussed several famou…8 KB (1303 words) - 03:20, 26 August 2006
- Ehrman: Misquoting Jesus Our author traces the history of the text of the New Testament and describes how scholars use the princi…1 KB (193 words) - 00:09, 15 April 2009
- Bondeson: Buried Alive Jan Bondeson, ''Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear''. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. 320 pag…3 KB (574 words) - 23:53, 14 April 2009
- Kurlansky: Salt …lence in Food Writing; however, his previous books seem to have been about history and geography.1 KB (184 words) - 00:38, 15 April 2009
- Burke: Connections …is excitement and enthusiasm about sharing all the connections he finds in history, as though the covers of his book can barely contain all the interesting s… …lves) to the modern ending point. Each one of these mental rambles through history adds depth to the modern invention the way that musical variations on a th…5 KB (834 words) - 23:56, 14 April 2009
- Ball: The Ingredients …redients'' offers a great deal of insight about the chemical elements, the history of their discovery, their value to society, and even what it means to be a…5 KB (779 words) - 23:48, 14 April 2009
- Gould: The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox … series of books that collected the monthly columns he wrote for ''Natural History'' magazine for 25 years, including ''Ever Since Darwin'', ''Bully for Bron…6 KB (978 words) - 00:16, 15 April 2009
- Diamond: Collapse …s viewpoint is largely environmental, no doubt because of his professional history, but he makes clear the notion that environmental problems can be big, thr… …le for them to do so. I instead prefer to recognize that, throughout human history, in all politically complex human societies in which people encounter othe…4 KB (642 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2009
- Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea …concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust…7 KB (1109 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Ball: Bright Earth … colors and found it more than ample. Various cultures at various times in history have not distinguished colors that modern eyes do. Through medieval times … …lor of the robe worn by the Virgin Mary in painted representations through history is largely a record of which pigments were rarest and most expensive in an…11 KB (1801 words) - 23:47, 14 April 2009
- Ridley: The Red Queen …a pop star ushering a model into his Mercedes. From fish to Mercedes, the history is unbroken: via skins and beads, plows and cattle, swords and castles. We… Cynical? Not half as cynical as most accounts of human history. [pp. 243—244]9 KB (1456 words) - 01:19, 15 April 2009
- Manguel: A History of Reading Alberto Manguel, ''A History of Reading''. New York : Viking, 1996. 372 pages, with notes and index. …hat play back and forth across various aspects of that theme, building its history in layers, like transparent glazes on a Renaissance oil painting. He consi…10 KB (1641 words) - 00:50, 15 April 2009
- The Invention of Eyeglasses Alberto Manguel, in ''A History of Reading'', wrote{{ref|am01}} about the earliest known references to the… #{{note|am01}}Alberto Manguel, ''[[Manguel: A History of Reading|A History of Reading]]'', New York : Viking, 1996.3 KB (550 words) - 03:26, 18 November 2009
- Monmonier: Air Apparent …weather map around 1816 raises perhaps the most intriguing question in the history of environmental cartography: What took them so long? The "so long" here i… This history of weather mapping and forecasting includes a look at how weather maps wer…7 KB (990 words) - 00:55, 15 April 2009
- Sullivan: Rats Robert Sullivan, ''Rats : Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.'' New York : Bloomsbury… …ssay, and he delves cogently into all manner of rat-related topics, from a history of infestations and the discovery of rats' associate with plague, to the m…7 KB (1160 words) - 01:34, 15 April 2009
- Allen: Vaccine Rightfully, the first act belonged to the fascinating history of the smallpox vaccine, one that stretched over nearly 300 years from Jen… Allen's book reveals that the history of vaccination is an ethical minefield, filled with dilemmas. Undeniably v…11 KB (1768 words) - 23:38, 14 April 2009
- Finlay: Jewels Victoria Finlay, ''Jewels : A Secret History.'' New York : Ballentine Books, 2006. 472 pages, with color plates, notes,… Rambling through the history, romance, and folklore of gems, this book is a collection of what we might…9 KB (1493 words) - 00:12, 15 April 2009
- Burke: Circles James Burke, ''Circles : 50 Round Trips through History, Technology, Science, Culture.'' New York : Simon & Schuster, 2000. 286 pa… …fficulty of containing Burke's breathlessly high-speed approach to telling history in a small space. Each essay of a few thousand words, when read back-to-ba…7 KB (1142 words) - 23:55, 14 April 2009
- Lienhard: How Invention Begins …ceful presentation of a provocative and profound analysis of technological history. … thesis is that big inventions, inventions that change the course of human history, are not the work of the lone genius, the "canonical inventor" (Lienhard's…4 KB (675 words) - 00:46, 15 April 2009
