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Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics

By Mauro Dardo (Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro)

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

By Cropper

Einstein: A Biography

By Jurgen Neffe, Shelley Frisch

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

By Rudolf Carnap

A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science

By Noretta Koertge (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University)

Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society

By Ullica Segerstrale

Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

By Sandra Harding

Reactions: The private life of atoms

By Peter Atkins (Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford)

Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

By Diana Donald, Jane Munro, Fitzwillian Museum Cambridge

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

By Chandos Michael Brown

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler

Eugene Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java: The History of the First 'Missing Link' and Its Discoverer

By L.T. Theunissen, Enid Perlin-West

Desmond: Archetypes & Ancestors (Pr Only): Palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875

By Desmond

Men among the Mammoths

By A. Bowdoin Van Riper

The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History

By David Elliston Allen

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

Charles Darwin, Geologist

By Sandra Herbert

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London

By Lisa Jardine

John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

By Norman Macrae

Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work

By Abraham Pais (Rockefeller University, New York), Maurice Jacob (Conseil Europeen de Recherches Nucleaires, Geneva), David I. Olive (University of Wales, Swansea), Michael F. Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)

Recent Devs in the Hist of Chemistry

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

By Sabine Hossenfelder

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

An Einstein Encyclopedia

By Alice Calaprice (Senior Editor), Daniel Kennefick, Robert Schulmann

Einstein at Home

By Friedrich Herneck, Josef Eisinger, Alice Calaprice

112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science

By Estate of Margaret M Feldman Burton Feldman (c/o Elizabeth Richardson), Senior Lecturer in Criminology Katherine Williams

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

By Silvan S. Schweber

Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc

By Arthur Miller

In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist

By S. S. Schweber

Representing Electrons: A Biographical Approach to Theoretical Entities

By Theodore Arabatzis