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Zeppelin!: Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939

By Guillaume de Syon (Professor, Albright College)

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

By Gordon Campbell (Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester)

The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

By Erin Webster (Assistant Professor of English, William & Mary)

Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W.D.Hamilton

By Ullica Segerstrale (Professor of Sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago and director of its Camras Scholars Program.)

The Lazy Universe: An Introduction to the Principle of Least Action

By Jennifer Coopersmith (Honorary Research Associate, Honorary Research Associate, La Trobe University, Australia)

The Story of Semiconductors

By John W. Orton (Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, UK)

Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster

By Chris McKay (Horologist)

A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers

By Robert E Kennedy (Department of Physics, Creighton University)

Newton's Principia for the Common Reader

By S. Chandrasekhar (, University of Chicago)

Interference: The History of Optical Interferometry and the Scientists Who Tamed Light

By David D. Nolte (E. M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy)

Universal Life: An Inside Look Behind the Race to Discover Life Beyond Earth

By Alan Boss (Research Staff Member, Research Staff Member, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution)

Elements of a Sustainable World

By John Evans (Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Southampton)

Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics: Problems and Solutions

By Ta-pei Cheng (Professor, Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis), Ling-Ffong Li (Professor, Carnegie Mellon University)

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations

By Olival Freire Jr (Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics, Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Guido Bacciagaluppi (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Utrecht), Olivier Darrigo...

Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything

By Jonathan Betts (Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many

By Andrew Zangwill (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

The Six-Cornered Snowflake

By Johannes Kepler, C. Hardie

The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage

By Daniel R. Altschuler (Full Professor, Physics Department, Full Professor, University of Puerto Rico, RIo Piedras Campus), Fernando J. Ballesteros (Head of instrumentation, Head of instrumentation, Astronomical Observatory of the Uni...

John Stewart Bell and Twentieth Century Physics: Vision and Integrity

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University Belfast)

The Evolution of Music through Culture and Science

By Peter Townsend (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex)

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism: Volume 1

By James Clerk Maxwell (late Professor, late Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge)

Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology

By Helge Kragh (Professor of History of Science, Professor of History of Science, University of Aarhus)

Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom: The Bohr Model of Atomic Structure 1913-1925

By Helge Kragh (Professor of the History of Science at Aarhus University, Denmark)

The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory

By Anthony Duncan (Professor of Physics, Department of Physics 1nd Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh)

Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics

By Robert T. Hanlon (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, Massachusetts, USA)

Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation

By Ian Crofton

Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling

By Jay D. Aronson

Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-Physicists

By Ian Glass (South African Astronomical Observatory)

The Quest for Reality: Bohr and Wittgenstein - two complementary views

By Stig Stenholm (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)