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Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

By Hans C. Ohanian (University of Vermont)

The Day We Found the Universe

By Marcia Bartusiak

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

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

By Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)

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

By DK

Reaching for the Stars: Illustrated History of Manned Spaceflight

By Peter Bond, Harrison Schmitt

A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

By Cyril Aydon

Science and Islam: A History

By Ehsan Masood

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

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

By Reviel Netz, William Noel

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

By John Reader

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

By William T. Vollmann

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

By Gareth Williams

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

By Tim James

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

By Milos Hudlicky

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

By Marcus Chown

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

By Adam Rutherford

Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

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

By Polly Hope

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

By Tom Whipple

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

By George Johnson

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

By George Johnson

Our Moon: A Human History

By Rebecca Boyle

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

By Jason Roberts

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

By Jin Yong, Shelly Bryant, Gigi Chang

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University)

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

By Sarah S. Richardson

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse

By Thackray, John, Press, Bob

Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender and Society

By Shirley C. Strum, Linda Marie Fedigan