Micro-histories

Books that explore a specific subject in depth providing a different way of looking at familiar things

Author	Title	Call No.
Mark Kurlansky	Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world	333.95 Kur
Patricia Rain	Vanilla: the cultural history of the world's most popular flavor and fragrance	633.8 Rai
Henry Petroski	Pencil: a history of design and circumstance	674.88 Pet
Charlees Seife	Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea	513 Sei
Jack Turner	Spice: the history of temptation	641.338 Tur
Tony Cecchini	Cosmopolitan: a bartender's life	B Cecchini Cec
Mary Roach	Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers	611 Roa
David Bodanis	E=mc2: a biography of the world's most famous equation	530.11 Bod
Mark Kurlansky	Salt: a world history	333.85 Kur
Witold Rybczynski	One Good Turn: a natural history of the screwdriver and screw	621.9 Ryb
Mort Rosenblum	Chocolate: a bittersweet saga of dark and light	641.3374 Ros
Tom Lutz	Crying: the natural and cultural history of tears	153.4 Lut
Roy Moxham	Tea: addiction, exploitation, and empire	382 Mox
Diarmuid Jeffreys	Aspirin: the remarkable story of a wonder drug	615.783 Jef
Alastair Gordon	Naked airport: a cultural history of the world's most revolutionary structure	387.736 Gor
Robert Friedel	Zipper: an exploration in novelty	609 Fri

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