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Review: Archimedes to Hawking by Clifford Pickover

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Review: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

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Review: Kluge by Gary Marcus

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Review: The Physics of NASCAR by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky

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Review: Copernicus' Secret by Jack Repcheck

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Review: Digging up the Dead: Uncovering the life and times of an extraordinary surgeon, by Druin Burch

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Oppenheimer: The tragic intellect, by Charles Thorpe

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