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The Libraries have other Popular Reading Collections and guides that recommend reading on specific topics.
The Engineering, Math and Physics Popular Science Reading Collection is a collection of best-selling and recommended books on STEM topics. I created this collection to add books written for a wider audience about STEM topics to the collection, in order to inspire interest, engagement, and new ideas.
On this guide you can virtually browse the entire Engineering, Math and Physics Popular Science Reading Collection, in subject (or call number) order. I've also created a few curated lists of titles including:
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A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
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Galileo and the Science Deniers
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Lucean Arthur Headen: The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur
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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
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Elon Musk
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The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
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The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry
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Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
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A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Streets to the Stars
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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
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Feynman
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Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
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Hawking
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love & Fallout
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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She, DISRUPTS: A Black Woman’s Journey in the STEM and AI Industries
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
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Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
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A Passion for Space: Adventures of a Pioneering Female NASA Flight Controller
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
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Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life is What you Make It
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Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology
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X + Y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
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Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games
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Geek Girls: Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
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A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
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Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action
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Diversifying STEM: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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Lucean Arthur Headen: The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur
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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
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No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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Queer Data Studies
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
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The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
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Holding The Knife's Edge: Journeys of Black Female Scientists
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
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The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay
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Math in Drag
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A Portrait of the Scientist As a Young Woman
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
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A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Streets to the Stars
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Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
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Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
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Hawking
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The Climate Book
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Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities 2021
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
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50 Women in Technology
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Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field
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She, DISRUPTS: A Black Woman’s Journey in the STEM and AI Industries
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, And Other Threats of Toxic Tech
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
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Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
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Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
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Artificial: A Love Story
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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The Phantom Scientist
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Women Discoverers: Top Women in Science
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The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded
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The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World
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Math for English Majors: A Human Take on the Universal Language
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The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus
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Feynman
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Hawking
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love & Fallout
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Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
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Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight
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Geek Girls: Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley
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A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
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Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet--And Our Mission To Protect It
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives
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Women Discoverers: Top Women in Science
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Holding The Knife's Edge: Journeys of Black Female Scientists
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Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
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The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay
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A Portrait of the Scientist As a Young Woman
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Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
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Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
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Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love & Fallout
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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50 Women in Technology
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Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field
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She, DISRUPTS: A Black Woman’s Journey in the STEM and AI Industries
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
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Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
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A Passion for Space: Adventures of a Pioneering Female NASA Flight Controller
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
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Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
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How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
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The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
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Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
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Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey
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The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay
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The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World
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Math for English Majors: A Human Take on the Universal Language
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Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt
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Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
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Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
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Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
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Light: The Visible Spectrum and Beyond
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life
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Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
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The Mind's Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
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Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water
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The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
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Spacecraft and Rockets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA
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