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Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920

By Chiara Beccalossi

Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

By L. Noble

The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein

By J. Hayden

The Times Millennium Quiz Book

By Howard Robin

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory

By Patrick Wilcken

Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study

By Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

By Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney)

Medieval Farming and Technology: The Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe

By Grenville Astill, John Langdon

Learning with Multiple Representations

By M.W. Van Someren, Peter Reimann, Henny P.A. Boshuizen, Ton de Jong

The Particle Explosion

By F.E. Close, Michael Marten, Christine Sutton

A Brief History of Time

By Stephen Hawking

Empire Of The Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes

By Arthur I. Miller

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth

By Hoffman, Paul

Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element

By Jeremy Bernstein

Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey

By Joseph Warren Dauben

Infinitesimal

By Amir Alexander

What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

By Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By Brandon R. Brown (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of San Francisco)

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

By Thomas P. Hughes

The Third Man of the Double Helix

By Maurice Wilkins

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

By Leon Lederman, Dick Teresi

My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy

By John Brockman

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

By Hans C. Ohanian (University of Vermont)

The Day We Found the Universe

By Marcia Bartusiak

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)

Science Year by Year: A visual history, from stone tools to space travel

By DK

Reaching for the Stars: Illustrated History of Manned Spaceflight

By Peter Bond, Harrison Schmitt

A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

By Cyril Aydon