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Science Year by Year: A visual history, from stone tools to space travel

By DK

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

The Day We Found the Universe

By Marcia Bartusiak

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

By Hans C. Ohanian (University of Vermont)

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall

My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy

By John Brockman

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

By Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi

The Third Man of the Double Helix

By Maurice Wilkins

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

By Thomas P. Hughes

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By Brandon R. Brown (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of San Francisco)

What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

By Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose

Infinitesimal

By Amir Alexander

Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey

By Joseph Warren Dauben

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

By L. Noble

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

By P. Cryle, A. Moore

Negotiating Clerical Identities: Priests, Monks and Masculinity in the Middle Ages

By J. Thibodeaux

Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

By A. Bashford

Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

By H. Marland

Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

By E. Maurer, J. Richers, M. Ruthers, C. Scheide

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

By A. M. Pusca

Tissue Culture in Science and Society: The Public Life of a Biological Technique in Twentieth Century Britain

By D. Wilson

The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive

By E. Aston, B. Reynolds, Kenneth A. Loparo

Religious Violence Between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots, Modern Perspectives

By A. Abulafia

Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality

By K. Birth

Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920

By Chiara Beccalossi

A Brief History of Time

By Stephen Hawking

Learning with Multiple Representations

By M.W. Van Someren, Peter Reimann, Henny P.A. Boshuizen, Ton de Jong

The Particle Explosion

By F.E. Close, Michael Marten, Christine Sutton

Medieval Farming and Technology: The Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe

By Grenville Astill, John Langdon