Books in the Bibliography of The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
7,721 members
119 reviews
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
7,142 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
5,595 members
73 reviews
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
4,690 members
233 reviews
3.8
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
3,832 members
185 reviews
3.9
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
3,696 members
120 reviews
4
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
by Marshall McLuhan
3,199 members
26 reviews
3.9
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Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
2,892 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Walker Howe
1,940 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Third Wave
by Alvin Toffler
1,493 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
1,011 members
25 reviews
4.1
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The Technological Society
by Jacques Ellul
987 members
5 reviews
4.1
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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
by A. Roger Ekirch
848 members
23 reviews
3.8
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
by Sherry Turkle
783 members
14 reviews
4.1
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Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
by Clifford Stoll
742 members
12 reviews
3.1
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Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity
by David Bodanis
708 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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Technics and Civilization
by Lewis Mumford
701 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
by Rebecca Solnit
650 members
15 reviews
4.2
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Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
by Stephanie Roth Sisson
584 members
43 reviews
4.2
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Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
by David S. Landes
560 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by Edmund Wilson
440 members
6 reviews
4.1
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Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
by Carl Sagan
439 members
6 reviews
4.1
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
by Paul Bogard
430 members
18 reviews
4.1
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A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist
by Robert V. Levine
419 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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Edison: Inventing the Century
by Neil Baldwin
289 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Carl Sagan
by Keay Davidson
284 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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Edison: A Biography
by Matthew Josephson
272 members
1 review
3.8
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Brilliant
by Jane Brox
255 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
by Eric Lax
241 members
5 reviews
4.2
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Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos
by William Poundstone
226 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
by John Szwed
224 members
5 reviews
4
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Animals in Motion
by Eadweard Muybridge
216 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
by Jim Bell
210 members
12 reviews
4.1
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
by Ainissa Ramirez
205 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius
by Nancy C. Andreasen
191 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
by Kenneth Silverman
185 members
2 reviews
3.9
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James A. Garfield
by Ira Rutkow
165 members
7 reviews
½ 3.4
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Abraham Lincoln Comes Home
by Robert Burleigh
160 members
7 reviews
3.8
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Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age
by Michael Riordan
158 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
by David E. Nye
151 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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Privacy: A Very Short Introduction
by Raymond Wacks
143 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries
by Emilio Segrè
128 members
½ 4.5
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A Streak of Luck : The Life and Legend of Thomas Alva Edison
by Robert E. Conot
121 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
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Metals in the Service of Man
by William Alexander
119 members
3 reviews
3.9
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Photography and the American Scene
by Robert Taft
118 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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The British at the Gates
by Robin Reilly
108 members
½ 3.4
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times
by Elting Elmore Morison
104 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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Christmas: A Candid History
by Bruce David Forbes
99 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class
by Scott Timberg
94 members
½ 3.3
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George Eastman: A Biography
by Elizabeth Brayer
82 members
1 review
3
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Five Thousand Years of Glass
by Hugh Tait
69 members
1 review
5
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Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading
by Naomi S. Baron
69 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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Edison, His Life and Inventions
by Frank Lewis Dyer
66 members
½ 2.5
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The Fabulous Phonograph, 1877-1977
by Roland Gelatt
52 members
½ 4.3
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Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
by Peter C. Wensberg
49 members
2 reviews
4.2
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The Nature of Solids
by Alan Holden
45 members
1 review
5
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Driving Force: The Natural Magic of Magnets
by James D. Livingston
44 members
½ 4.5
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Living with the Genie: Essays On Technology And The Quest For Human Mastery
by Alan Lightman
44 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Edison: The Man Who Made the Future
by Ronald William Clark
43 members
½ 3.5
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The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music
by Alan Lomax
40 members
1 review
4
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America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound
by Andre Millard
39 members
3.8
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Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life
by Eviatar Zerubavel
35 members
½ 4.3
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The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
by Carleton Mabee
33 members
1 review
2
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Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention
by Robert Friedel
32 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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Tinfoil to Stereo: Evolution of the Phonograph
by Oliver Read
29 members
½ 4.3
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Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude
by Derek Howse
28 members
4
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An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage
by Malcolm Macmillan
28 members
1 review
4
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Samuel F. B. Morse
by William Kloss
28 members
3
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A History of Metallurgy (2nd Edition)
by R. F. Tylecote
27 members
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Florey, the man who made penicillin
by Lennard Bickel
26 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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