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An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

Tim Brookes

The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts

Christopher de Hamel

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Mary Roach

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Emma Southon

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

Tricia Rose

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Deborah Blum

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

A.J. West

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

William Alexander

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Rose George

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

Jeremy Desilva

Photobooth: A Biography

Meags Fitzgerald

The Pickled City: A Biography of New York Pickles

Paul van Ravestein

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Ruth Kassinger

Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

Thor Hanson

Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

John Drury Clark