Sam Kean
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
$22.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclea
- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316381675
- Language: English
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Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
$32.50 Add to cartFrom “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind–and through all five senses–from tropical Polynesian islands to forbi… [more below]
- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0316496553
- Language: English
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
$29.00 Read moreFrom a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science’s darkest secrets, “a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Scie- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0316496502
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Last Breath: And Other True Tales of History, Science, and the Sextillions of Molecules in the Air Around Us
$19.99 Add to cartThe Guardian‘s Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe.
It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0316381659
- Language: English
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
$22.99 Add to cartThe author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for m- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0316182354
- Language: English
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The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
$21.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.
In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unloc- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0316182338
- Language: English
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
$9.99 Add to cartA young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table.
Wh- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316388270
- Language: English
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
$22.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.
Why did Gandhi hate iodi- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06, 2011
- ISBN10: 0316051632
- Language: English
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science’s darkest secrets, “a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Scie- Author: Kean, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316496510
- Language: English
