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Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

By Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes

The Essential Turing

By B. Jack. Copeland (Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Boyle: Between God and Science

By Michael Hunter

Rochester Roundabout: Story of High Energy Physics

By J. C. Polkinghorne

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

By Peter Galison

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By Michelle Feynman, Richard Feynman, Timothy Ferris

Leonardo the Scientist

By Carlo Zammattio, Augusto Marinoni, Anna Maria Brizio

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece

By Colin Pask

Worlds of Flow: A history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl

By Olivier Darrigol (History of Science, University of Paris VII, France)

Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein

By Olivier Darrigol (, University of Paris VII)

A Brief History of Science: through the development of scientific instruments

By Thomas Crump

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

By Patrick Coffey (Visiting Scholar, Office for the History of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley)

The History of Medicine: A Beginner's Guide

By Mark Jackson

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

By Bill Bryson

Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars

By Ziauddin Sardar

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

By Edward J. Hackett (Professor, Arizona State University), Olga Amsterdamska (University of Amsterdam), Michael E. Lynch (Cornell University), Judy Wajcman (Head of Department of Sociology, London School of Economics & Political Science ), Wiebe E. Bijke...

The Northern Lights: How One Man Sacrificed Love, Happiness and Sanity to Unlock the Secrets of Space

By Lucy Jago

Life: an Unauthorised Biography: An Unauthorized Biography

By Fortey, Richard

A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels

By Caspar Henderson

China: Land of Discovery and Invention

By Robert K.G. Temple

Wheels: This non-fiction picture book takes a look at all sorts of wheels.: Band 01b/Pink B (Collins Big Cat)

By Ridley, Frances, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Fundamentalism, Terrorism and the Future of Humanity

By Leonardo Boff

Museums and the Natural Environment: The Role of Natural History Museums in Biological Conservation

By PETER DAVIS

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

By Nicholas Spencer

The Ice Finders

By Edmund Blair Bolles

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

By James Gleick

BY Wagner, Roger ( Author ) [ The Penultimate Curiosity ] 04-2016 Hardcover