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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

Venomous Earth: How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning

By A. Meharg

Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves

By Harry Collins (Professor, Cardiff University)

Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, Or, a Sidereal Message

By Galileo Galilei

Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Prozess der deutschen Vereinigung 1989-2002: Eine politische Wissenschaftsgeschichte

By Mitchell Ash

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

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

The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause

By Susan Mattern

The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages

By Beth Fowkes Tobin

Understanding Natural Selection

By Michael Ruse (University of Guelph, Ontario)

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By Frank Wilczek (Author)

Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games

By Marcus Du Sautoy

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

By Thomas S. Kuhn, Ian Hacking

Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization

By Donald W. Braben

Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

By Galileo Galilei, Albert Van Helden

On the Origin of Species

By Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer (Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge)

Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

By Joseph C. Hermanowicz

Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

By Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University), Sebastien Dutreuil

De La Mettrie's Ghost: The Story Of Decisions

By C. Nunn

The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters

By Marcus Du Sautoy

The Genius of China

By Robert K.G. Temple

Coulomb’s Memoirs on Torsion, Electricity, and Magnetism Translated into English

By Assis, Andre Koch Torres, Bucciarelli, Louis L.

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe

By Thomas Levenson

Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed

By Jim Al-Khalili

Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained

By Robert Cave