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Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life by Alexis McCrossen
Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
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Alexis McCrossen

Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life

Alexis McCrossen

272 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World by Catherine E. McKinley

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

Catherine E. McKinley

235 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history travel emotional reflective slow-paced
The History of Money by Jack Weatherford

The History of Money

Jack Weatherford

304 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative medium-paced
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice Domurat Dreger

Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

Alice Domurat Dreger

268 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction gender history science challenging informative slow-paced
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

Daniel Pool

416 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history reference informative lighthearted slow-paced
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson

The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us

Bee Wilson

320 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The English Garden: A Social History by Charles Quest-Ritson

The English Garden: A Social History

Charles Quest-Ritson

284 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science technology challenging funny informative fast-paced
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

On Immunity: An Inoculation

Eula Biss

216 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays health science informative reflective medium-paced
Life in Miniature: A History of Dolls' Houses by Nicola Lisle

Life in Miniature: A History of Dolls' Houses

Nicola Lisle

184 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted medium-paced