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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Holmes, Richard

The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience

By Lee McIntyre (Center for Philosophy and History of Science)

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

By Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall

History of Botanical Science: An Account of the Development of Botany from Ancient Times to the Present Day

By A.G. Morton

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

By Margaret Alic

Science Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Discoveries That Changed the World

By DK, Robert Winston

Weaving the Cosmos - Science, Religion and Ecology

By Chris Clarke

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

The Emperor Of Scent

By Chandler Burr

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

By N. Katherine Hayles

Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

By Ludwik Fleck, Thaddeus J. Trenn, Frederick Bradley, Robert K. Merton, Thomas S. Kuhn

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

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

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

By Ken Ham

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

By Cherry Lewis

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

By John C. Lennox

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

By Jack El-Hai

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity

By Luke Hodgkin (King's College, London)

The Theory Of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumphs of Modern Physics

By Robert Oerter

The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived

By Erik C. Banks (Wright State University, Ohio)

A History of Mathematics: An Introduction

By Victor J. Katz

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

By Kip S. Thorne, Stephen Hawking

Lost Moon

By Lovell

Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained

By James M. Russell

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

By W.W.Rouse Ball

Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed

By David H Clark, Stephen H P Clark, Stephen P H Clark

Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4

By Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry

Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs - the weirdest theories of science and history

By Alex Boese

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

By David C. Cassidy

Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939 -1949

By Jim Baggott