History of Science

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

By Jared M Diamond

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953

By Simon Ings

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

By Vaclav Smil

A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times

By Donald Hill

The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

By I. Bernard Cohen (Harvard University)

The Deutsches Museum, Munich

By Otto R. Mayr

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4

By Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry

Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs - the weirdest theories of science and history

By Alex Boese

Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed

By David H Clark, Stephen H P Clark, Stephen P H Clark

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

By David C. Cassidy

Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939 -1949

By Jim Baggott

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

By Helen Tilley

The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom

By Gennady Gorelik (Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Research Fellow, Boston University), Antonina W. Bouis (Vice President, Vice President, Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

The Making of the Atomic Age

By Alwyn McKay

The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World

By Luke Keogh

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

By Headrick

Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History

By E. G. Richards (formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, King's College London (retired))

Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime

By James E. McClellan

The Naming of Names: the Search for Order in the World of Plants

By Anna Pavord

Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis

By Helen Bynum (Freelance historian)

Memory: Fragments of a Modern History

By Alison Winter

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

By Shelley Emling

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Holmes, Richard

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

By W.W.Rouse Ball

Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained

By James M. Russell

Lost Moon

By Lovell

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

By Kip S. Thorne, Stephen Hawking

A History of Mathematics: An Introduction

By Victor J. Katz

The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived

By Erik C. Banks (Wright State University, Ohio)