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Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth

By Ian Mortimer

From Sails to Satellites

By J.E.D. Williams

The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

By Chris Gosden

Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes

By Alan W. Hirshfeld

Life on Air: David Attenborough Memoirs

By Sir David Attenborough

Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp: Poet and Philosopher

By Raymond Lamont-Brown

Newton by Lliffe, Robert ( Author ) ON Jan-25-2007, Paperback

By Lliffe, Robert

Human Universe

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

The Moral Authority of Nature

By Lorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal

The World of Physical Chemistry

By Keith J. Laidler

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

By Alison Bashford

A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

By Samantha Weinberg

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

By Anthony Grafton

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

By Roma Agrawal

The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

By Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser

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)

Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs - the weirdest theories of science and history

By Alex Boese

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

By Andrew Doig

Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4

By Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry