History of Science

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century

By Margaret Alic

Science Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Discoveries That Changed the World

By DK, Robert Winston

Weaving the Cosmos - Science, Religion and Ecology

By Chris Clarke

Medicine's Strangest Cases: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of medical history

By O'Donnell, Michael

The Emperor Of Scent

By Chandler Burr

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

By N. Katherine Hayles

Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

By Ludwik Fleck, Thaddeus J. Trenn, Frederick Bradley, Robert K. Merton, Thomas S. Kuhn

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

By Roma Agrawal

Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

By Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University), Sebastien Dutreuil

Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

By Joseph C. Hermanowicz

On the Origin of Species

By Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer (Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge)

Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

By Galileo Galilei, Albert Van Helden

Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization

By Donald W. Braben

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

By Thomas S. Kuhn, Ian Hacking

Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games

By Marcus Du Sautoy

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By Frank Wilczek (Author)

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)