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The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past

By Matthew Hedman

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human

By Ridley, Matt, Matt Ridley

Last Wild Places

By National Geographic Society

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

By Jason Schreier

Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Superior: The Return of Race Science

By Angela Saini

Faraday

By G.N. Cantor, David Gooding, Frank James

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By Lindsey Fitzharris

Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

By Dava Sobel

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

By Robert Winder

Science Tech Everyday Life V2 (Sources for the Study of Science, Technology and Everyday Life)

By Open University

Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains

By Bluestein, Howard B.

Chemometrics: A Textbook: Volume 2 (Data Handling in Science and Technology, Volume 2)

By Massart, D. L. Massart, D. L.

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

By Fortey, Richard

Sigmund Freud: Examining the Essence of his Contribution: 2 (Mind Shapers)

By Richard Stevens

Leonardo da Vinci : The First Scientist

By Michael White, White, Michael

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

By Simon Singh

the-code-book--the-secret-history-of-codes-and-code-breaking

By Singh, Simon, Simon Singh

The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live

By Christian Donlan

The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists

By David Millar, John Millar, Ian Millar, margaret millar

Pi: a Source Book

By L. Berggren (Simon Fraser University, Northridge, California, USA), J. Borwein (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada), P. Borwein (Simon Fraser University

Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science

By Michael Brooks

Constructing the Subject: Historical Origins of Psychological Research

By Kurt Danziger

The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

By Michael Marshall

Dr. Calhoun's Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity

By Lee Alan Dugatkin

Understanding Evo-Devo

By Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History

By Matthieu Auzanneau, Richard Heinberg

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

By Lindsey Fitzharris

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

By Amy Shira Teitel