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The Story of the Cosmos: How the Heavens Declare the Glory of God

By Daniel Ray, Paul Gould

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

Enlightenment

By Porter

Let Newton be!

By John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Michael Shortland, Robin Wilson

A Little History of Science

By William F. Bynum

From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States

By David Hounshell (Carnegie Mellon University)

How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By Vaclav Smil

Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture

By Jon Turney

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived

By Ralph Helfer

Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

By R. Weikart

The Times Millennium Quiz Book

By Howard Robin

The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein

By J. Hayden

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

By L. Noble

Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920

By Chiara Beccalossi

Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality

By K. Birth

Religious Violence Between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots, Modern Perspectives

By A. Abulafia

The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive

By E. Aston, B. Reynolds, Kenneth A. Loparo

Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

By D. Wilson

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

By A. M. Pusca

Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

By E. Maurer, J. Richers, M. Ruthers, C. Scheide

Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

By H. Marland

Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

By A. Bashford

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