Salt: A World History

Salt: A World History

By
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky
2002 • 496 pages

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94 books

Non Fiction

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Physics of the Impossible
The First War of Physics
The quantum story : a history in 40 moments
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Quantum Physics for Poets
Unknown Quantity

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11 books

Pop Science

AwkwardSalt
Alyse
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Spook
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Rabid
Salt: A World History
Why beautiful people have more daughters

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365 books

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Right Ho, Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves
Jeeves in the Morning
The Code of the Woosters: Jeeves to the Rescue
The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories (Jeeves, #0.5)
The Devil Wears Prada
My Man Jeeves

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363 books

Audio Book

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Joshua Tree
The Thief
The Path of Daggers
The Sapphire Rose
Domes of Fire
The Hidden City
The Shining Ones

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38 books

History

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American Lightning
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
The Devil in the White City
John Adams
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Salt: A World History
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

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182 books

Nonfiction

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Salt: A World History
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Black Like Me
Reading Like a Writer
The Art of X-Ray Reading
Mentor: A Memoir
The baseball codes

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35 books

Popular Science

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John
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Guns, Germs and Steel
Collapse
E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

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59 books

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Caitlyn
City of Dreadful Delight
The Origins of Sex : A History of the First Sexual Revolution
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
House of Psychotic Women
The Weird and the Eerie
Rites of Spring

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1,507 books

Non Fiction

Traveller
Mer Barr
When God Was a Woman
The Red Queen
Diplomacy
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

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206 books

Science

Traveller
Mer Barr
The Red Queen
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
A Crack in the Edge of the World
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
The Grand Design

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114 books

The Sea

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Mer Barr
Captains Courageous
The Nautical Chart
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
The Riddle-Master of Hed
The Silent Sea
Nights of rain and stars

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20 books

Botanical

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Mer Barr
The Mammoth Hunters
The Plains of Passage
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Salt: A World History
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

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25 books

Informational

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Salt: A World History
Joyful
We are the Weather
Medical Apartheid
Untangled
The Inner Work of Racial Justice

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5 books

History

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Salt: A World History
Medical Apartheid
A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Underground Railroad

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38 books

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Mortal Engines
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Perdido Street Station
Faster Road Racing: 5K to Half Marathon
The Handmaid's Tale
Salt: A World History
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
Elements of Electromagnetics
Cook's Illustrated Baking Book: Baking Demystified with 450 Foolproof Recipes from America's Most Trusted Food Magazine
The Mathematical Theory of Communication

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5 books

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The Stars Are Legion
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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150 books

History

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The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
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19 books

Food

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Pandora's Lunchbox
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
Real Food Fake Food
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
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200 books

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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Art of Possibility
Autobiography of a Face

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10 books

Chemistry

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The Disappearing Spoon
The Invention of Air
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Vitamania
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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4 books

Food And Culture

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The Botany of Desire
Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of US
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The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue

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3 books

Microhistory

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The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Botany of Desire
Salt: A World History

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774 books

Paper Book

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Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The mistresses of Cliveden

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History

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The Long Summer
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The Story of the Americas
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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