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Sam Kean

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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
Sam Kean

464 pages • hardcover • 2019 (editions)

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nonfiction history science informative fast-paced

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

464 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 by Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2015

Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger with Seth Mnookin (Contributor), Rowan Jacobsen (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Sheila Webster Boneham (Contributor), Alison Hawthorne Deming (Contributor), Elizabeth Kolbert (Contributor), Burkhard Bilger (Contributor), Dennis Overbye (Contributor), Brooke Jarvis (Contributor), Eli Kintisch (Contributor), Amy Maxmen (Contributor), David Wolman (Contributor), Meera Subramanian (Contributor), Michael Specter (Contributor), Leslie Jamison (Contributor), Jourdan Imani Keith (Contributor), Lisa M. Hamilton (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), Sam Kean (Contributor), Sarah A. Schweitzer (Contributor), Jake Abrahamson (Contributor), Barry Yeoman (Contributor), Matthew Power (Contributor), Sheri Fink (Contributor)

318 pages • paperback • 2015 (editions)

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nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 by Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2015

Rebecca Skloot, Tim Folger with Seth Mnookin (Contributor), Rowan Jacobsen (Contributor), Atul Gawande (Contributor), Sheila Webster Boneham (Contributor), Alison Hawthorne Deming (Contributor), Elizabeth Kolbert (Contributor), Burkhard Bilger (Contributor), Dennis Overbye (Contributor), Brooke Jarvis (Contributor), Eli Kintisch (Contributor), Amy Maxmen (Contributor), David Wolman (Contributor), Meera Subramanian (Contributor), Michael Specter (Contributor), Leslie Jamison (Contributor), Jourdan Imani Keith (Contributor), Lisa M. Hamilton (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), Sam Kean (Contributor), Sarah A. Schweitzer (Contributor), Jake Abrahamson (Contributor), Barry Yeoman (Contributor), Matthew Power (Contributor), Sheri Fink (Contributor)

318 pages • paperback • 2015

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nonfiction essays nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Sam Kean, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018
The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2018

Sam Kean, Tim Folger with Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Contributor), Paul Kvinta (Contributor), Kathryn Schulz (Contributor), Joshua Rothman (Contributor), Ceridwen Dovey (Contributor), Susannah Felts (Contributor), Kenneth Brower (Contributor), Siddhartha Mukherjee (Contributor), Kayla Webley Adler (Contributor), Steven Johnson (Contributor), Sophie Brickman (Contributor), Caitlin Kuehn (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), Ed Yong (Contributor), Douglas Fox (Contributor), Jacqueline Detwiler-George (Contributor), Christopher Solomon (Contributor), Elena Passarello (Contributor), Rachel Leven (Contributor), Eva Holland (Contributor), David Roberts (Contributor), Barack Obama (Contributor), J. B. MacKinnon (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Ross Andersen (Contributor), John Lanchester (Contributor)

336 pages • paperback • 2018 (editions)

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nonfiction essays nature science informative reflective slow-paced

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Sam Kean, Tim Folger

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018

The Best American Science and Nature Writing #2018

Sam Kean, Tim Folger with Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Contributor), Paul Kvinta (Contributor), Kathryn Schulz (Contributor), Joshua Rothman (Contributor), Ceridwen Dovey (Contributor), Susannah Felts (Contributor), Kenneth Brower (Contributor), Siddhartha Mukherjee (Contributor), Kayla Webley Adler (Contributor), Steven Johnson (Contributor), Sophie Brickman (Contributor), Caitlin Kuehn (Contributor), Kim Todd (Contributor), Ed Yong (Contributor), Douglas Fox (Contributor), Jacqueline Detwiler-George (Contributor), Christopher Solomon (Contributor), Elena Passarello (Contributor), Rachel Leven (Contributor), Eva Holland (Contributor), David Roberts (Contributor), Barack Obama (Contributor), J. B. MacKinnon (Contributor), Rebecca Boyle (Contributor), Ross Andersen (Contributor), John Lanchester (Contributor)

336 pages • paperback • 2018

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nonfiction essays nature science informative reflective slow-paced

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Sam Kean

384 pages • hardcover • 2017 (editions)

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nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

384 pages • hardcover • 2017

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nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced

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

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam Kean

391 pages • hardcover • 2010 (editions)

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nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

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

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

391 pages • hardcover • 2010

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nonfiction history science informative medium-paced

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science
Sam Kean

384 pages • hardcover • 2021 (editions)

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nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science

384 pages • hardcover • 2021

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nonfiction history science true crime informative medium-paced

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Sam Kean

401 pages • hardcover • 2012 (editions)

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nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

401 pages • hardcover • 2012

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nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting by Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting
Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby with Sam Kean

312 pages • hardcover • 2016 (editions)

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nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting by Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting

Ylva Østby, Hilde Østby with Sam Kean

312 pages • hardcover • 2016

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nonfiction psychology science informative medium-paced

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Sam Kean

464 pages • hardcover • 2025 (editions)

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nonfiction history science

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations

464 pages • hardcover • 2025

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nonfiction history science

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain by Sam Kean

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain
Sam Kean

416 pages • digital • 2014 (editions)

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nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain by Sam Kean

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain

416 pages • digital • 2014

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nonfiction history psychology science informative medium-paced

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