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Moebius and his Band: Mathematics and Astronomy in Nineteenth-century Germany

By John Fauvel (formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, formerly Lecturer in Mathematics, The Open University (deceased)), Raymond Flood (University Lecturer in Computing and Mathematics, Department for Continuing Education, University Lecturer in Computing and...

Kepler's Tubingen: Stimulus to a Theological Mathematics

By Charlotte Methuen

Charles Darwin in Australia

By F. W. Nicholas, J. M. Nicholas

The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists

By David Millar, Ian Millar, John Millar, margaret millar

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

By James Mahaffey

Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations

By D. A. Russell, M. Winterbottom

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos

By Dava Sobel

Synthetic: How Life Got Made

By Sophia Roosth

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

By David N. Livingstone

Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

By Ed Conway

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

By Maria A Trapp

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

By Daniel Ray, Paul Gould

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)

By Dyson, Freeman, Feynman, Richard

Papyrus: THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER

By Irene Vallejo

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

By Ralph Helfer

Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture

By Jon Turney

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

By Vaclav Smil

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

By David Hounshell (Carnegie Mellon University)

A Little History of Science

By William F. Bynum

Let Newton be!

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

Enlightenment

By Porter

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane

By James Delbourgo

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