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    Remem­ber­ing Ros­alind Franklin: Ros­alind Franklin & the Dis­cov­ery of the Dou­ble Helix Struc­ture of DNA
    Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus.
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    Rachel Rob­bins
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    Emmy Noe­ther: The Most Impor­tant Math­e­mati­cian You’ve Nev­er Heard Of
    Helaine Becker, Kari Rust (illus.)
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    Stargaz­ing in the Atom­ic Age: Essays
    Anne Gold­man
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    Hid­den Heretics: Jew­ish Doubt in a Dig­i­tal Age
    Ayala Fad­er
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    JBC Authors at the Table: Jan Eliasberg

    Jan Elias­berg
    June 16, 2020
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    Max Ein­stein: The Genius Experiment
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    Jew­ish Astro­nauts and Nazi Scientists

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    Israel: The Start-up Nation for Med­ical Innovation
    Robert A. Norman
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    Aroused: The His­to­ry of Hor­mones and How They Con­trol Just About Everything
    Ran­di Hut­ter Epstein
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    How Luck Hap­pens: Using the Sci­ence of Luck to Trans­form Work, Love, and Life
    Jan­ice Kaplan
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    Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
    Adam Frank
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    Los­ing the Nobel Prize: A Sto­ry of Cos­mol­o­gy, Ambi­tion, and the Per­ils of Sci­ence’s High­est Honor
    Bri­an Keating
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    Juli Berwald
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    Jonathan K. Crane
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