 | Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $3.66 A very readable biography of Shakespeare that makes sense of his life through his work.
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 | Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.07 An excellent analysis of how this most powerful modern eruption changed the world.
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 | The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Buy used from: $0.37 Another book by Simon Winchester. This time a complete study of the making of the OED.
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 | Mary Ellen Mark: Twins (Aperture Monograph)
Buy new: $42.50 / Used from: $10.90 As one might expect--portraits of twins by a great photographer. They may be twins, but look for the differences. It's interesting.
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 | Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
Buy used from: $0.01 Funny. What more is there to say?
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 | Radiant Identities: Photographs by Jock Sturges
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $25.00 Beautiful photos by a brilliant, if sometimes controversial, photographer.
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 | Devil's Crown: A History Of Henry Ii And His Sons (Medieval Military Library) by Richard Barber
Buy used from: $0.50 A short history of the lives of King Henry II of England and his sons.
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 | Isaac Newton by James Gleick
Buy used from: $0.99 A brief look into the life of history's greatest scientist.
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 | Tycho & Kepler by Kitty Ferguson
Buy new: $22.40 / Used from: $0.65 A look at the remarkable relationship between two of history's most influential scientists (even if you must ignore that the author tries to convince us of murder).
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 | Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone
Buy used from: $4.98 The story of Michael Servetus and a book that eventually led him to be burned at the stake.
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 | The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder
Buy used from: $0.01 The beginning of the metric system.
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 | In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.39 Art Spiegelman's experiences on 9/11 and the days following.
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 | The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $3.43 A look at the attempts of physics to explain the universe by a brilliant young physicist.
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 | The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $7.20 Manhattan--the very beginning.
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 | St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography by Philip Freeman
Buy used from: $1.79 A biography that tries to separate fact from legend.
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 | Return Of The Enola Gay by Paul W. Tibbets
Buy used from: $23.17 If you want to know the facts behind the bombing of Hiroshima, here's the place to look. The pilot who trained and flew the mission tells his story.
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 | The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John M. Barry
Buy used from: $6.66 No plague killed more people than the influenza that circled the world at the end of World War I. This book tries to get around the myths to the facts of what really made this epidemic.
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 | Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Robert Sullivan
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $1.79 Centered around his own observations of rats in NYC, the author researches these creatures and tries to separate fact from fiction.
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 | Naked Happy Girls
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $21.99 Fun, fun, fun photography.
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