books by subject
History of Science

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

The Day We Found the Universe

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

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

Science Year by Year: A visual history, from stone tools to space travel

Reaching for the Stars: Illustrated History of Manned Spaceflight

A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

Science and Islam: A History

Horizons: A Global History of Science

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

Uncentering The Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

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

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

Our Moon: A Human History

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

A Heart Divided: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 4

The Life of Isaac Newton

Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse
