books by subject
History of Science

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

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

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

The Day We Found the Universe

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

The Life of Isaac Newton

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

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

The Third Man of the Double Helix

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

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

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

Infinitesimal

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

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

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

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

Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies

Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change

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

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

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

Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality

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

A Brief History of Time

Learning with Multiple Representations

The Particle Explosion
