History of Science

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Richard Keynes

The Planets

By Sobel, Dava

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

By Michael Hoskin (, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

Students Guide to Natural Science

By Stephen M. Barr

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

By Jim Al-Khalili

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

By Jim Al-Khalili

Headhunters: The Pioneers of Neuroscience

By Ben Shephard

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk

By S. Polu

Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000

By M. Garcia-Sancho

Elemental Germans: Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59

By Christoph Laucht

Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

By R. Weikart

British Sociology's Lost Biological Roots: A History of Futures Past

By Chris Renwick

Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought

By I. Hunter, Kenneth A. Loparo

Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence

By P. Hoegselius

Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence

By P. Hoegselius

Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800-1970

By B. Bennett, J. Hodge

Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology

By B. Regal

Alfred Weber and the Crisis of Culture, 1890-1933

By C. Loader

Monism: Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview

By T. Weir

The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s

By S. Mars

The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918

By M. Ash, J. Surman

A Short History of Scientific Thought

By John Henry (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

By P. Cryle, A. Moore

Negotiating Clerical Identities: Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages

By J. Thibodeaux

Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

By A. Bashford

Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

By H. Marland

Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

By E. Maurer, J. Richers, M. Ruthers, C. Scheide

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

By A. M. Pusca

Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

By D. Wilson