books by subject
History of Science

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

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

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

Horizons: A Global History of Science

Scientists, Mathematicians and Inventors

Cyborg: The Man Machine

Global Environmental Change: A Natural and Cultural Environmental History

A New Historical Geography of England after 1600

The Discovery of Evolution

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

Shocking Science: 5, 000 Years of Mishaps and Misunderstands

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

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

The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities

Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition

The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond

Middle World: The Restless Heart of Matter and Life

The Non-Euclidean Revolution

The Grip of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Laws of Motion and Gravitation

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

The Origins of Modern Science

Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History

Tracing the History of Placenames

Isaac Newton

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

Decoding the Heavens: How the Antikythera Mechanism Changed The World

The Great Scientists

Wellcome Collection: A Guide for the Incurably Curious
