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Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People

By Philip Ball

A Brief History of Computing

By Gerard O'Regan (SQC Consulting, Cork, UK)

Man and Nature in the Renaissance

By Allen George Debus

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

By Mario Livio

Geometry Civilized

By John Heilbron

A Suspiciously Simple History of Science and Invention (without the Boring Bits)

By John Farman

Natural Theology

By William Paley, Matthew D. Eddy (Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Durham), David Knight (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine

By John V. Pickstone

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By Nicola Twilley

The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

By Neil D. Lawrence

Curie

By Sarah Dry, Sabine Seifert

The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists

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

The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond

By S. Turchetti, P. Roberts

Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition

By H. Ellis, J. Symonds, I. Crozier

Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities

By M. Kostera

The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

By J. Frakes

Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Moral Uses of Violence and Will

By J. Glass

A Vision of Modern Science: John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture

By U. DeYoung

Shocking Science: 5, 000 Years of Mishaps and Misunderstands

By Steve Parker, John Kelly

Elephants on Acid: From zombie kittens to tickling machines: the most outrageous experiments from the history of science

By Alex Boese

The Discovery of Evolution

By David Young (University of Melbourne)

A New Historical Geography of England after 1600

By H. C. Darby

Global Environmental Change: A Natural and Cultural Environmental History

By Antoinette Mannion

Cyborg: The Man Machine

By Marie O'Mahony

Scientists, Mathematicians and Inventors

By Doris Simonis

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

By Amy Shira Teitel

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

By Andrew Doig

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

By Lindsey Fitzharris