History of Science

Headhunters: The Pioneers of Neuroscience

By Ben Shephard

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance

By Jim Al-Khalili

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

By Jim Al-Khalili

Students Guide to Natural Science

By Stephen M. Barr

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

By Michael Hoskin (, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)

The Planets

By Sobel, Dava

Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle

By Richard Keynes

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

History of Mathematics

By Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach

The Complete Idiot's Guide (R) to NASA

By Thomas Jones, Ph.D., Michael Benson

Bleu: Histoire d'une couleur

By Pastoureau, Michel

The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience

By Lee McIntyre (Center for Philosophy and History of Science)

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

By Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall

History of Botanical Science: An Account of the Development of Botany from Ancient Times to the Present Day

By A.G. Morton

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

By Margaret Alic

Science Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Discoveries That Changed the World

By DK, Robert Winston

Weaving the Cosmos - Science, Religion and Ecology

By Chris Clarke

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

The Emperor Of Scent

By Chandler Burr

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

By N. Katherine Hayles

Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

By Ludwik Fleck, Thaddeus J. Trenn, Frederick Bradley, Robert K. Merton, Thomas S. Kuhn

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

By Patricia Fara (Director of Studies in HPS, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge)

The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

By Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser

Our Fragile Moment: how lessons from the Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis

By Michael Mann

The Problem of Nature: Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective

By David Arnold (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present

By Eugene Linden

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

By Lucy Moore

Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition: A New Perspective

By Alexander Mercer

Water: A Turbulent History

By Stephen Halliday

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

By Robert Winder