History of Science

Brilliant Lives: The Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment

By John W. Arthur

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion

By Sean Carroll

Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann

By Ioan James (University of Oxford)

The Particle at the End of the Universe: Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize

By Sean Carroll

A Prisoner's Dilemma

By William Poundstone

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Is Science Necessary?

By M. F. Perutz

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

By Graham Farmelo

Albert Einstein's Vision: Remarkable Discoveries That Shaped Modern Science

By Barry R. Parker

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

By Steven Weinberg (University of Texas Austin)

I Am a Mathematician

By Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

By Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Building The H Bomb: A Personal History

By Kenneth W Ford (Retired Director, American Inst Of Physics, USA)

Dark Sun (Sloan Technology Series)

By Rhodes

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

By Marcus Chown

Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

By Marcus Chown

Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

By Philip Ball

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

By Rebecca Stott

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

By Adam Rutherford

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

By Brenda Maddox

Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science

By Michael Friedman

Nothing: A Very Short Introduction

By Frank Close (Professor of Theoretical Physics and Fellow of Exeter College, University of Oxford)

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

By Nick Mann, Theodore Gray

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By Dawkins, Richard, Richard Dawkins

History of Mathematics

By Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach, U. Merzbach

Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the Fifteenth Century

By Frank J. Swetz

The Scientist, The Madman, The Thief And Their Lightbulb: The Search For Free Energy

By Keith Tutt

Historical Connections in Mathematics: v. 1: Resources for the Classroom

By Wilbert Reimer, Luetta Reimer

Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs

By Richard Gillings

Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

By Peter Marren