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Bad Science

By Goldacre, Ben

Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk

By Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things

By Verma, Surendra

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

By Lisa Randall

Elephants on Acid: and Other Bizarre Experiments

By Alex Boese

The Galileo Connection

By Charles E. Hummel

The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949

By James Reardon-Anderson

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

By Mary Poovey

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain

By Antonio R. Damasio

You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

By Jaron Lanier

Celestial Sleuthing: More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature

By Donald W. Olson

A Brief History of Computing

By Gerard O'Regan

Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege

By Brian M. Hughes

Beyond the Genius: Nobel Stories of Passion and Controversy in Science

By Virginia Shepherd, Charles Brau

Extreme Exploration: Celebrating and Applying Lessons Learned from the Apollo Expeditions

By Pamela Elizabeth Clark

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

By Simon Ings

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History: Actium, Battle of

By John B. Hattendorf

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought

By William R. Everdell

Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius

By William R. Shea, Mariano Artigas

The Rough Guide to Genes & Cloning

By Dr Jess Buxton, Jon Turney

Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio

By Gareth Williams

What Makes Nature Tick?

By Roger G. Newton

Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape

By Ted Nield

Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain

By Chris Stringer

Finding Time for the Old Stone Age: A History of Palaeolithic Archaeology and Quaternary Geology in Britain, 1860-1960

By Anne O'Connor

Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

By Jr. Barrow

Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World

By Dorrik Stow (ECOSSE Chair, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

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)

Learn With Us Now: Level 1: Workbook: Print Student Workbook

By Vanessa Reilly, Placido Bazo, Marcos Penate

No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care

By Luke Messac (Resident Physician, Resident Physician, Brown University)