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One Word Wonders
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Aspirin: the Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
Diarmuid Jeffreys
615.783 Je
Bananas: An American History
Virginia Scott Jenkins
380.1414772 Je
Bicycle: The History
David V. Herlihy
629.227209 He
Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put America on the Map
Stephen H. Yafa
338.4767721 Ya
Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones
Greg Campbell
966.404 Ca
The Bomb: a New History
Stephen Younger
623.45119 Yo
Coal: A Human History
Barbara Freese
553.24 Fr
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
333.956633 Ku
Coffee: A Dark History
Antony Wild
641.3373 Wi
Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life
Toby Cecchini
641.874 Ce
The Dirt on Clean: an Unsanitized Life
Katherine Ashenburg
391.64 As
E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
David Bodanis
530.11 BO
Earth: An Intimate History
Richard A. Fortey
551.7 Fo
Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity.
David Bodanis
537 Bo
Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon
Mitchell Pacelle
333.3387309 Pa
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Mario Livio
516.204 Li
Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
Daniel Nettle
152.42 Ne
A History of Pi
Petr Beckmann
516.22 Be
Honey: From Hive to Honeypot: A Celebration of Bees and Their Bounty
Sue Style
638.1 St
Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Mariana Gosnell
551.30 Go
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Dava Sobel
526.6209 So
Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse
Richard L. Rapport
612.8 Ra
Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit
Mort Rosenblum
641.3463 Ro
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver
Witold Rybczynski
621.972 Ry
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Henry Petroski
674.88 Sa
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire
Richard Adams Carey
597.42 Ca
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
Jeremy Bernstein
546.434 Be
Rat: How the World's most Notorious Rodent Clawed its Way to the Top
Jerry Langton
599.35 La
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
553.632 Ku
Sand: The Never-Ending Story
Michael Welland
553.622 We
Sex, Death, and Oysters: a Half-SHell Lover's World Tour
Robb Walsh
641.694 Wa
Spice: The History of a Temptation
Jack Turner
641.338309 Tu
Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
Andrea Sutcliffe
623.8722097 Su
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
611 Ro
The Story of Corn: The Myths and History, the Culture and Agriculture, the Art and Science of America's Quintessential Crop
Betty Fussell
633.150973 Fu
Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire
Roy Moxham
382.4566394 Mo
Tobacco: The Story of How Tobacco Seduced the World
Iain Gately
394.14 Ga
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus
John Emsley
546.712 Em
The True History of Chocolate
Sophie D. Coe
641.3374 Co
Tuna: a Love Story
Richard Ellis
333.956783 El
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock tath Shaped the World
Tom Zoellner
546.431 Zo
Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance
Patricia Rain
633.82 Ra
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
513 Se
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