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Concise History of Science and Invention: An Illustrated Time Line (National Geographic)

By Geographic, National

What a great idea!: Awesome South African inventions

By Bruton, Mike

Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body

By Fong, Kevin

Electrified Sheep

By Boese, Alex

The Forgotten Cure: The Past and Future of Phage Therapy

By Kuchment, Anna

Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)

By Kanas, Nick

Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality

By Evans, Rhodri, Clegg, Brian

Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and charlatans

By Wilson, Mr Derek

Man's Place in the Universe

By Wallace, Alfred Russel

The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Genius of Electricity

By Lomas, Robert

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

By Ignotofsky, Rachel

Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

By Stewart, Ian

On the Origin of Species (Broadview Editions)

By Charles Darwin, Joseph Carroll

Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution

By Randal Keynes

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

They Got It Wrong: Science: All the Facts That Turned Out to Be Science Fiction

By Donald, Graeme

Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor

By Robert Wainwright

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

By Rutherford, Adam

Celestial Geometry

By Ken Taylor

A Brief History of Bad Medicine (Brief Histories)

By Schott, Ian

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

By Roach, Mary

The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements

By Parsons, Paul, Dixon, Gail

THEORIES OF EVERYTHING: Ideas in Profile (Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas)

By Close, Frank

Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket

By Macdonald, Fraser

30-Second Chemistry: The 50 most elemental concepts in chemistry, each explained in half a minute.

By Tro, Nivaldo

30-Second Einstein: The 50 fundamentals of his work, life and legacy, each explained in half a minute

By Clegg, Brian

The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery

By Donald, Graeme

Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind

By Clark, Stuart

The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

By Kean, Sam

A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)

By Bryson, Bill