History of Science

The Theory Of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumphs of Modern Physics

By Robert Oerter

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity

By Luke Hodgkin (King's College, London)

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness

By Jack El-Hai

Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

By John C. Lennox

The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

By Cherry Lewis

The New Answers Book 1: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible

By Ken Ham

The Voyages of the "Discovery": Illustrated History of Scott's Ship

By Ann Savours, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Peter Scott

Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

By Ludwik Fleck, Thaddeus J. Trenn, Frederick Bradley, Robert K. Merton, Thomas S. Kuhn

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

By N. Katherine Hayles

The Emperor Of Scent

By Chandler Burr

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

Weaving the Cosmos - Science, Religion and Ecology

By Chris Clarke

Science Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Discoveries That Changed the World

By DK, Robert Winston

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

By Margaret Alic

History of Botanical Science: An Account of the Development of Botany from Ancient Times to the Present Day

By A.G. Morton

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

By Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall

The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience

By Lee McIntyre (Center for Philosophy and History of Science)

Bleu: Histoire d'une couleur

By Pastoureau, Michel

The Complete Idiot's Guide (R) to NASA

By Thomas Jones, Ph.D., Michael Benson

History of Mathematics

By Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Richard Keynes

The Planets

By Sobel, Dava

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

By Michael Hoskin (, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

Students Guide to Natural Science

By Stephen M. Barr

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

By Jim Al-Khalili

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

By Jim Al-Khalili

Headhunters: The Pioneers of Neuroscience

By Ben Shephard

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk

By S. Polu

Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000

By M. Garcia-Sancho