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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

The Third Man of the Double Helix

By Maurice Wilkins

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

The Day We Found the Universe

By Marcia Bartusiak

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

By Hans C. Ohanian (University of Vermont)

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall

My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy

By John Brockman

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

By Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi

What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

By Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose

Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey

By Joseph Warren Dauben

Infinitesimal

By Amir Alexander

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)