History of Science

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth

By Hoffman, Paul

Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element

By Jeremy Bernstein

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

By Joseph Warren Dauben

Infinitesimal

By Amir Alexander

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

By Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By Brandon R. Brown (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of San Francisco)

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

By Thomas P. Hughes

The Third Man of the Double Helix

By Maurice Wilkins

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

By Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi

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

By John Brockman

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall

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