History of Science

Understanding Natural Selection

By Michael Ruse (University of Guelph, Ontario)

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

By Beth Fowkes Tobin

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

By Susan Mattern

Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity

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

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

By Mitchell Ash

Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, Or, a Sidereal Message

By Galileo Galilei

Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves

By Harry Collins (Professor, Cardiff University)

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

By A. Meharg

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

By Robert Winder

Water: A Turbulent History

By Stephen Halliday

Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition: A New Perspective

By Alexander Mercer

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

By Lucy Moore

Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present

By Eugene Linden

The Problem of Nature: Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective

By David Arnold (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Our Fragile Moment: how lessons from the Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis

By Michael Mann

The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

By Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser

From Sails to Satellites

By J.E.D. Williams

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

By Nick Mann, Theodore Gray

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By Dawkins, Richard, Richard Dawkins

History of Mathematics

By Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach, U. Merzbach

Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the Fifteenth Century

By Frank J. Swetz

The Scientist, The Madman, The Thief And Their Lightbulb: The Search For Free Energy

By Keith Tutt

Historical Connections in Mathematics: v. 1: Resources for the Classroom

By Wilbert Reimer, Luetta Reimer

Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs

By Richard Gillings

Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

By Peter Marren

The Book of Victorian Heroes

By Adam Hart-Davis, Paul Bader

E=Mc2. A Biography Of The World's Most Famous Equation

By david-bodanis

Ordering Life: Karl Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition

By Kristin Johnson (Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound)

Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth

By Ian Mortimer

Human Universe

By Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen, Cox, Professor Brian, Cohen, Andrew