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The Day We Found the Universe

By Marcia Bartusiak

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)

Science Year by Year: A visual history, from stone tools to space travel

By DK

Reaching for the Stars: Illustrated History of Manned Spaceflight

By Peter Bond, Harrison Schmitt

A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

By Cyril Aydon

Science and Islam: A History

By Ehsan Masood

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By Reviel Netz, William Noel

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

By John Reader

Uncentering The Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

By William T. Vollmann

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

By Gareth Williams

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

By Tim James

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

By Milos Hudlicky

The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

By Marcus Chown

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

By Adam Rutherford

Leonardo da Vinci : The First Scientist

By Michael White, White, Michael

Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Superior: The Return of Race Science

By Angela Saini

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By Lindsey Fitzharris

Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

By Dava Sobel

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

By Robert Winder

Science Tech Everyday Life V2 (Sources for the Study of Science, Technology and Everyday Life)

By Open University

Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains

By Bluestein, Howard B.

Chemometrics: A Textbook: Volume 2 (Data Handling in Science and Technology, Volume 2)

By Massart, D. L. Massart, D. L.

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

By Fortey, Richard

Sigmund Freud: Examining the Essence of his Contribution: 2 (Mind Shapers)

By Richard Stevens

The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

By Michael Marshall