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The Times Millennium Quiz Book

By Howard Robin

A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

By Cyril Aydon

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By Kirsty E. Duncan

Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender and Society

By Shirley C. Strum, Linda Marie Fedigan

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse

By Thackray, John, Press, Bob

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

By Sarah S. Richardson

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University)

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

By Jin Yong, Shelly Bryant, Gigi Chang

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

By Jason Roberts

Our Moon: A Human History

By Rebecca Boyle

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

By George Johnson

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

By George Johnson

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

By Tom Whipple

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

By Polly Hope

Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

By Adam Rutherford

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

By Marcus Chown

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

By Milos Hudlicky

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

By Tim James

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

By Gareth Williams

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

Uncentering The Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

By William T. Vollmann

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

By John Reader

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By Reviel Netz, William Noel

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

Science and Islam: A History

By Ehsan Masood

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

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

Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study

By Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

By Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)

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

By Grenville Astill, John Langdon