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The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age
A chronicle of the interactions among three men of the 1800s--Louis Agassiz, Charles Lyell, and Elisha Kent Kane--discusses how theories about the Ice Age developed and shows how human obsessions drive the discoveries of science.
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Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving
Filled with humor and anecdote, this history of Daylight Saving Time covers a century of bad science, profiteering, and social policy swirling around this odd moment on the annual calendar.
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