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Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956)

By Dean Rickles (Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, University of Sydney, Australia)

The Shadow of Enlightenment: Optical and Political Transparency in France 1789-1848

By Theresa Levitt (Department of the History, University of Mississippi)

Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director at CNRS and Research Scholar at OHST, Research Director at CNRS and Research Scholar at OHST, CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, and OHST, University of California at Berkeley, USA)

Tears of the Tree: The Story of Rubber - A Modern Marvel

By John Loadman (Head of Materials Characterization (Retired), Head of Materials Characterization (Retired), Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre, Hertford, UK)

Constructing Quantum Mechanics: Volume 1: The Scaffold: 1900-1923

By Anthony Duncan (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA), Michel Janssen (Professor, Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minn...

Holograms: A Cultural History

By Sean F. Johnston (Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Professor of Science, University of Glasgow, UK)

The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust

By Gordon Fraser

Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN

By Pauline Gagnon (formerly Senior Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Indiana University, USA)

Masters of the Universe: Conversations with Cosmologists of the Past

By Helge Kragh (Professor of History of Science, Professor of History of Science, Aarhus University)

Nuclear Dawn: F. E. Simon and the Race for Atomic Weapons in World War II

By Kenneth D. McRae (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa)

Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780-1787

By Trevor H. Levere, Gerard L'E Turner

Seven Tales of the Pendulum

By Gregory L. Baker (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA)

Mechanistic Images in Geometric Form: Heinrich Hertz's 'Principles of Mechanics'

By Jesper Lutzen (, Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

No Time to be Brief: A scientific biography of Wolfgang Pauli

By Charles P. Enz (, Professor Emeritus, University of Geneva)

Thus Spoke Galileo: The great scientist's ideas and their relevance to the present day

By Andrea Frova (, Dipartimento di Fisica, 1niversita di Roma "La Sapienza"), Mariapiera Marenzana (, Retired Professor of Italian and Latin Literature from Liceo Coreutico at the National Dance Academy)

New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning

By Istvan Hargittai (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Magdolna Hargittai (Research Professor, Research Professor

Special Relativity: A First Encounter: 100 years since Einstein

By Domenico Giulini (, Department of Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany)

Totality: Eclipses of the Sun

By Mark Littmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee), Fred Espenak (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland), Ken Willcox (The late Ken Willcox was at Phillips Petroleum Company and Adjunct Professor of Physics & A...

The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists 1945-1949

By Professor, Dr. Klaus Hentschel (History of Science, University of Stuttgart)

Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein

By Olivier Darrigol (, University of Paris VII)

One Hundred Patents That Shaped the Modern World

By David Segal

Shape Dynamics: Relativity and Relationalism

By Flavio Mercati (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)

Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

By Aitor Anduaga (Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History, Basque Country, Spain)

Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939: Laboratories, Learning and College Life

By Robert Fox (Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, UK), Graeme Gooday (School of Philosophy, University of Leeds

Constructing Quantum Mechanics, Two-Volume Pack: Volume 1: The Scaffold: 1900-1923, Volume 2: The Arch: 1923-1927

By Anthony Duncan (University of Pittsburgh), Michel Janssen (University of Minnesota)

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology

By Helge Kragh (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Malcolm Longair (Director of Development and Outreach, Jacksonian Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy, Director of Development and Outre...

The Harvest of a Century: Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

By Siegmund Brandt (Department of Physics, University of Siegen, Germany)

The Age of Innocence: Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars

By Roger H. Stuewer (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota)

Present At The Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Cont roversial Conversations on Science and Nature

By Ira Flatow

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics

By Jed Z. Buchwald (Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology), Robert Fox (Emeritus Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford)