books by subject
History of Science

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Terrors of the Table: The curious history of nutrition

Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science

Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics (Revised)

Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford Paperbacks)

Molecules: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Darwin: A Very Short Introduction: 35 (Very Short Introductions)

Galileo: A Very Short Introduction: 44 (Very Short Introductions)

Galileo (Past Masters S.)

Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (OPUS)

The Ascent of Science

Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment

My Brain is Open: Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos

The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery of 20th Century Physicists

Statistical Thought: A Perspective and History (Mathematics)

The Undergrowth Of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception, and Human Frailty

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes (Popular Science)

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality

Lightspeed: The Ghostly Aether and the Race to Measure the Speed of Light

The Ghost of Galileo: In a forgotten painting from the English Civil War

Charles Darwin (Very Interesting People)

Isaac Newton (Very Interesting People)

Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World

The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction: 191 (Very Short Introductions)
