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The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man

By C. Lynteris

Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox

By G. Williams

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family

By Shelley Emling

Eternity: Our Next Billion Years

By M. Hanlon

The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965

By Dick Van Lente

Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary

By M. Turda

A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease

By C. Timmermann

Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World

By C. Cox, H. Marland

Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850

By Bronwen Douglas

The Particle at the End of the Universe

The Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

Wellcome Collection: A Guide for the Incurably Curious

By Marek Kohn

The Great Scientists

By John Farndon

Decoding the Heavens: How the Antikythera Mechanism Changed The World

By Jo Marchant

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

By James Evans (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA)

Isaac Newton

By James Gleick

Tracing the History of Placenames

By Charles Whynne-Hammond

Time: Its Origin, Its Enigma, Its History

By Alexander Waugh

The Origins of Modern Science

By Herb Butterfield

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

By Andrea Wulf

The Grip of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Laws of Motion and Gravitation

By Prabhakar Gondhalekar

The Non-Euclidean Revolution

By Richard J. Trudeau

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

By J E Gordon

Curie

By Sarah Dry, Sabine Seifert

The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

By Neil D. Lawrence

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By Nicola Twilley

Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine

By John V. Pickstone

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

Natural Theology

By William Paley, Matthew D. Eddy (Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Durham), David Knight (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science

A Suspiciously Simple History of Science and Invention (without the Boring Bits)

By John Farman