books by subject
History of Science
Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
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
