books by subject
History of Science

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

What a great idea!: Awesome South African inventions

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

Electrified Sheep

The Forgotten Cure: The Past and Future of Phage Therapy

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

Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality

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

Man's Place in the Universe

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

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty

On the Origin of Species (Broadview Editions)

Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution

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

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

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

Celestial Geometry

A Brief History of Bad Medicine (Brief Histories)

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements

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

Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket

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

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

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

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

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