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Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

By Tim James

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

By Milos Hudlicky

The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

By Marcus Chown

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

By Adam Rutherford

Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World

By Polly Hope

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

By Tom Whipple

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

By George Johnson

Our Moon: A Human History

By Rebecca Boyle

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

By Jason Roberts

A Heart Divided: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 4

By Jin Yong, Shelly Bryant, Gigi Chang

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University)

Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

By Sarah S. Richardson

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse

By Thackray, John, Press, Bob

Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender and Society

By Shirley C. Strum, Linda Marie Fedigan

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By Kirsty E. Duncan

Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography

By Arthur H. Robinson

Cartoon Guide to Genetics (Cartoon Guide Series)

By Gonick, Larry

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism: Volume 2

By James Clerk Maxwell (late Professor, late Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge)

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

By Tim James

Finding Zero

By Amir D Aczel

Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe

By Stephen C. Meyer

The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past

By Matthew Hedman

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human

By Ridley, Matt, Matt Ridley

Last Wild Places

By National Geographic Society

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

By Jason Schreier

Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Superior: The Return of Race Science

By Angela Saini

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By Lindsey Fitzharris