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

By Lindsey Fitzharris

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

By Andrew Doig

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

By Amy Shira Teitel

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

Scientists, Mathematicians and Inventors

By Doris Simonis

Cyborg: The Man Machine

By Marie O'Mahony

Global Environmental Change: A Natural and Cultural Environmental History

By Antoinette Mannion

A New Historical Geography of England after 1600

By H. C. Darby

The Discovery of Evolution

By David Young (University of Melbourne)

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

By Alex Boese

Shocking Science: 5, 000 Years of Mishaps and Misunderstands

By Steve Parker, John Kelly

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

By U. DeYoung

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

By J. Glass

The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe

By J. Frakes

Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities

By M. Kostera

Sexual Inversion: A Critical Edition

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

The Surveillance Imperative: Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond

By S. Turchetti, P. Roberts

Middle World: The Restless Heart of Matter and Life

By M. Haw

The Non-Euclidean Revolution

By Richard J. Trudeau

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

By Prabhakar Gondhalekar

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf

The Origins of Modern Science

By Herb Butterfield

Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History

By Alexander Waugh

Tracing the History of Placenames

By Charles Whynne-Hammond

Isaac Newton

By James Gleick

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

By James Evans (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA)

Decoding the Heavens: How the Antikythera Mechanism Changed The World

By Jo Marchant

The Great Scientists

By John Farndon

Wellcome Collection: A Guide for the Incurably Curious

By Marek Kohn

The Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor

By Robert Wainwright (Author)