History of Science

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe

By Thomas Levenson

Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed

By Jim Al-Khalili

Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained

By Robert Cave

Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy, With a New Afterword

By Govert Schilling, Martin Rees

Extremes: How Far Can You Go to Save a Life?

By Kevin Fong

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

By Richard Holmes

A Brief History of Science for the Citizen

By John Wingate Maltby

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science

By John D. Barrow (Cambridge University)

Discoveries and Inventions: From Prehistoric to Modern Times

By Jorg Meidenbauer

As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces are Changing Your Work, Health, and Wealth

By Juan Enriquez

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

By Jared M Diamond

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953

By Simon Ings

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

By Vaclav Smil

A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times

By Donald Hill

The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

By I. Bernard Cohen (Harvard University)

The Deutsches Museum, Munich

By Otto R. Mayr

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

By Andrew Doig

Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4

By Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry

Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs - the weirdest theories of science and history

By Alex Boese

Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed

By David H Clark, Stephen H P Clark, Stephen P H Clark

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

By David C. Cassidy

Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939 -1949

By Jim Baggott

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

By Helen Tilley

The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom

By Gennady Gorelik (Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Research Fellow, Boston University), Antonina W. Bouis (Vice President, Vice President, Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

The Making of the Atomic Age

By Alwyn McKay

The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World

By Luke Keogh

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

By Headrick

Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History

By E. G. Richards (formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, King's College London (retired))

Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime

By James E. McClellan

The Naming of Names: the Search for Order in the World of Plants

By Anna Pavord