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Science and Islam: A History

By Ehsan Masood

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By Reviel Netz, William Noel

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

By John Reader

Uncentering The Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

By William T. Vollmann

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

By Gareth Williams

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

By Tim James

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

By Milos Hudlicky

The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

By Marcus Chown

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

By Adam Rutherford

Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World

By Polly Hope

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

By Tom Whipple

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

By George Johnson

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

By George Johnson

Our Moon: A Human History

By Rebecca Boyle

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

By Jason Roberts

A Heart Divided: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 4

By Jin Yong, Shelly Bryant, Gigi Chang

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University)

Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

By Sarah S. Richardson

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse

By Thackray, John, Press, Bob

Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender and Society

By Shirley C. Strum, Linda Marie Fedigan

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By Kirsty E. Duncan

Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography

By Arthur H. Robinson

Cartoon Guide to Genetics (Cartoon Guide Series)

By Gonick, Larry

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism: Volume 2

By James Clerk Maxwell (late Professor, late Professor, Trinity College, Cambridge)

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

By Tim James

Finding Zero

By Amir D Aczel

Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe

By Stephen C. Meyer