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New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb.

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A young readers adaptation of the New York Times bestselling book, The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary human history of the periodic table.

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From 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).

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Did the human race almost go extinct Can genetics explain a cat lady's love for felines And how did the right combination of genes create the exceptionally flexible thumbs and fingers of a truly singular violinist This title explains how genetics has shaped our past and how DNA will determine humankind's future.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Disappearing Spoon, a romp through ancient history-and the daily triumphs and heartbreaks of early humankind-through the footsteps of experimental archaeologists, from the tombs of Ancient Egypt to the bogs of Viking Europe.

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** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **

Popular science at its best
Mail on Sunday

Eminently accessible and enjoyable
Observer

With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world.

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The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.

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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

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For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards.