History of Science

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

Negotiating Clerical Identities: Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages

By J. Thibodeaux

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

By P. Cryle, A. Moore

A Short History of Scientific Thought

By John Henry (University of Edinburgh, UK)

The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918

By M. Ash, J. Surman

The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s

By S. Mars

Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview

By T. Weir

Alfred Weber and the Crisis of Culture, 1890-1933

By C. Loader

Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology

By B. Regal

Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970

By B. Bennett, J. Hodge

Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence

By P. Hoegselius

Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence

By P. Hoegselius

Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought

By I. Hunter, Kenneth A. Loparo

British Sociology's Lost Biological Roots: A History of Futures Past

By Chris Renwick

Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

By R. Weikart

Elemental Germans: Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59

By Christoph Laucht

Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000

By M. Garcia-Sancho

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk

By S. Polu

Headhunters: The Pioneers of Neuroscience

By Ben Shephard

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

By Jim Al-Khalili

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

By Jim Al-Khalili

Students Guide to Natural Science

By Stephen M. Barr

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

By Michael Hoskin (, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

The Planets

By Sobel, Dava

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Richard Keynes

The New Answers Book 1: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible

By Ken Ham

Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

By John C. Lennox

The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

By Cherry Lewis

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness

By Jack El-Hai

The Voyages of the "Discovery": Illustrated History of Scott's Ship

By Ann Savours, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Peter Scott