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Exactly, How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World 

Krakatoa 

The Meaning of Everything, The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary 

The Man Who Loved China, The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom 

Men Who United the States, America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible 

Atlantic, Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories 

MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD 

The Alice Behind Wonderland 

The Fracture Zone, My Return to the Balkans 

The Perfectionists, How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World 

The Professor and the Madman, A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 

A Crack In The Edge Of The World 

Outposts, Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire 

Pacific, Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers