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Zeroing In: Amazing Microhistories and Intensive Historical Investigations of Intriguing Topics
You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
Jack Lynch 028.7 LYN
City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
Peter D. Smith 307.76 SMI
Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us
Kabir Sehgal 332.49 SEH
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Deborah Blum 363.25 BLU
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Daniel Okrent 363.41 OKR
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting
Rachel Shteir 364.16232 SHT
The Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe
Elizabeth Semmelhack 391.413 SEM
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
Katherine Ashenburg 391.64 ASH
Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies
Richard Foss 394.12 FOS
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage 394.12 STA
Prairie: A Natural History
Candace Savage 508.3153 SAV
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
Robert Kaplan 511.2 KAP
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel 526.62 SOB
E=MC2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
David Bodanis 530.11 BOD
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 546 KEA
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Simon Winchester 551.4613 WIN
Coal: A Human History
Barbara Freese 553.24 FRE
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach 571.0919 ROA
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Robert Sullivan 599.35 SUL
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson 614.514 JOH
Rust: The Longest War
Jonathan Waldman 620.11223 WAL
Sugar: A Bittersweet History
Elizabeth Abbott 633.6 ABB
Vegetables: A Biography
Evelyne Bloch-Dano 635 BLO
Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions it Aroused
Mike Dash 635.93432 DAS
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Mark Essig 636.4 ESS
Milk: A Local and Global History
Deborah Valenze 641.371 VAL
Butter: A Rich History
Elaine Khosrova 641.372 KHO
Pepper: A History of the World’s Most Influential Spice
Marjorie Shaffer 641.3384 SHA
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson 643.1 BRY
The Warmest Room in the House: How the Kitchen Became the Heart of the Twentieth-Century American Home
Steven Gdula 643.3 GDU
Proof: The Science of Booze
Adam Rogers 663.1 ROG
Paper: Paging Through History
Mark Kurlansky 676 KUR
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay 701.85 FIN
The Immmortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science, and the Human Brain
David Shenk 794.1 SHE
Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
Dave Jamieson 796.357 JAM
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor 930.1 MAC
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