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  1. The Week by 

    We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks …

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  2. Female Husbands by 

    Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands …

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  3. Before the Refrigerator : How We Used to Get Ice by 

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  4. Impossible Subjects by 

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  5. How Life Works by 

    A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book …

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  6. The Occasional Human Sacrifice by 

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  7. History of the Muslim World by 

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  8. Off the Spectrum by 

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  9. Period by 

    A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation

    Menstruation is something half the world …

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  10. Bad Medicine by 

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  11. Just Price in the Markets by 

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  12. The Measure of Progress by 

    The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were …

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  13. The other slavery by 

    A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time …

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  14. The Franklin Stove by 

    The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit in a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a …

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  15. A Myriad of Tongues by 

    We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn’t …

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