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Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine

By John V. Pickstone

Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life

By Mark Francis (University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand)

Natural Theology

By William Paley, Matthew D. Eddy (Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Durham), David Knight (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science

A Suspiciously Simple History of Science and Invention (without the Boring Bits)

By John Farman

Geometry Civilized

By John Heilbron

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

By Mario Livio

Man and Nature in the Renaissance

By Allen George Debus

A Brief History of Computing

By Gerard O'Regan (SQC Consulting, Cork, UK)

Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People

By Philip Ball

Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

By Val McDermid

Einstein: A Life

By Denis Brian

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

By Charles Thorpe

Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections

By Alice Kimball Smith, Charles Weiner

J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Abraham Pais

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Lawrence and Oppenheimer

By Nuel Pharr Davis

Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

By Andrew Robinson

Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution

By Edmund Blair Bolles

Boffinology

By Justin Pollard

Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics

By Mauro Dardo (Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro)

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

By Cropper

Einstein: A Biography

By Jurgen Neffe, Shelley Frisch

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

By Rudolf Carnap

A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science

By Noretta Koertge (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University)

Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society

By Ullica Segerstrale

Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

By Sandra Harding

Reactions: The private life of atoms

By Peter Atkins (Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford)

Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

By Diana Donald, Jane Munro, Fitzwillian Museum Cambridge

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

By Chandos Michael Brown

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler