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Amazing Microhistories and Intensive Historical Investigations of Intriguing Topics

Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears
Tom Lutz
152.4 LUT

Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
333.85632 KUR

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Mark Pendergrast
338.17373 PEN

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Deborah Blum
363.25 BLU

The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting
Rachel Shteir
364.16232 SHT

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
Katherine Ashenburg
391.64 ASH

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

The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy
Dave Madden
590.752 MAD

Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance From a Hidden World
Erich Hoyt and Ted Schultz, eds.
595.7 INS

Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
Thor Hanson
598.147 HAN

Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Robert Sullivan
599.35 SUL

The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean’s Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature
Richard Ellis
599.547 ELL

Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty
Robert Friedel
609 FRI

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

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Dan Koeppel
634.772 KOE

Milk: A Local and Global History
Deborah Valenze
641.371 VAL

The Warmest Room In the House: How the Kitchen Became the Heart of the Twentieth-Century American Home
Steven Gdula
643.3 GDU

A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
Amy Butler Greenfield
667.26 GRE

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
Pico Iyer
910.4 IYE

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