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The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps

By Peter Whitfield

Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science

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

When Science and Christianity Meet

By David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers

A Pictorial History of Science Fiction

By Kyle, David, David A.

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature

By Janine M Benyus

Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

By Lewis Dartnell

And Now The Shipping Forecast: A Tide of History Around Our Shores

By Jefferson, Peter

The Stones of Venice

By John Ruskin, Jan Morris

A History of Astronomy: from 1890 to the Present

By David Leverington

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By James Gleick

The Ice Finders

By Edmund Blair Bolles

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

By Nicholas Spencer

Museums and the Natural Environment: The Role of Natural History Museums in Biological Conservation

By PETER DAVIS

Fundamentalism, Terrorism and the Future of Humanity

By Leonardo Boff

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Worlds of Flow: A history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl

By Olivier Darrigol (History of Science, University of Paris VII, France)

In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist

By S. S. Schweber

Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities

By Theodore Arabatzis

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

By Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes

The Essential Turing

By B. Jack. Copeland (Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Boyle: Between God and Science

By Michael Hunter

Rochester Roundabout: Story of High Energy Physics

By J. C. Polkinghorne

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

By Peter Galison

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By Michelle Feynman, Richard Feynman, Timothy Ferris

Leonardo the Scientist

By Carlo Zammattio, Augusto Marinoni, Anna Maria Brizio

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece

By Colin Pask

Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars

By Ziauddin Sardar