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Charging About: The Story of Electricity (Science Works)

By Bailey, Jacqui, Lilly, Matthew

Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries

By Finger, Stanley

The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910: Professional Cultures in Conflict (World Bank)

By Calvert, Professor Monte A.

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

By Bashford, Alison

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

By Close, Frank

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

By Millas, Juan Jose, Arsuaga, Juan Luis, Bunstead, Thomas, Hahn, Daniel

Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology (Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory)

By Matlin, Karl S.

Memories of a Theoretical Physicist: A Journey across the Landscape of Strings, Black Holes, and the Multiverse

By Polchinski, Joseph, Almheiri, Ahmed

Asteroids: A History (Smithsonian history of aviation & spaceflight series)

By Peebles, Curtis

Pandora's Breeches: Women,Science and Power in the Enlightenment

By Fara, Patricia

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Einstein's Universe

By Alpha Development Group

Science and Ireland - Value for Society: v. 2 (Science and Irish Culture)

By Mollan, Charles, Royal Dublin Society

The Odditorium: The tricksters, eccentrics, deviants and inventors whose obsessions changed the world

By Bramwell, David, Tinsley, Jo

Science and Irish Culture: v. 1

By Attis, David, Mollan, Charles, Royal Dublin Society

DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule That Shook the World

By Israel Rosenfield, Edward Ziff, Borin Van Loon

Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society

By Bryson, Bill

Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography

By Antognazza, Maria Rosa

The Planet in a Pebble: A journey into Earth's deep history (Oxford Landmark Science)

By Zalasiewicz, Jan

A History of European Mass Spectrometry

By Jennings, Keith R.

A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world’s first office computer

By Ferry, Georgina

The Evolution of Physics

By Einstein, Albert

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist

By Brockman, John

The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe

By O'Shea, Donal

Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity

By Blatner, David

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

By Redniss, Lauren

Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks

By Heilbron, John L.

A Century of Colour Photography

By Pamela Roberts

A History of Invention: From Stone Axes to Silicon Chips

By Williams, Trevor Illtyd, Schaaf, William E., Burnette, Arianne E.

Chemical Creativity: Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein, and Others (Wiley-Vch)

By Berson

Galileo And The Solar System

By Strathern, Paul