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The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage

By Daniel R. Altschuler (Full Professor, Physics Department, Full Professor, University of Puerto Rico, RIo Piedras Campus), Fernando J. Ballesteros (Head of instrumentation, Head of instrumentation, Astronomical Observatory of the Uni...

The Six-Cornered Snowflake

By Johannes Kepler, C. Hardie

A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many

By Andrew Zangwill (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything

By Jonathan Betts (Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations

By Olival Freire Jr (Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics, Full Professor of Physics and History of Physics, Universidade Federal da Bahia), Guido Bacciagaluppi (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Utrecht), Olivier Darrigo...

Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics: Problems and Solutions

By Ta-pei Cheng (Professor, Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis), Ling-Ffong Li (Professor, Carnegie Mellon University)

Elements of a Sustainable World

By John Evans (Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Southampton)

Universal Life: An Inside Look Behind the Race to Discover Life Beyond Earth

By Alan Boss (Research Staff Member, Research Staff Member, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution)

Interference: The History of Optical Interferometry and the Scientists Who Tamed Light

By David D. Nolte (E. M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy)

Newton's Principia for the Common Reader

By S. Chandrasekhar (, University of Chicago)

A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers

By Robert E Kennedy (Department of Physics, Creighton University)

Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster

By Chris McKay (Horologist)

The Story of Semiconductors

By John W. Orton (Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, UK)

The Lazy Universe: An Introduction to the Principle of Least Action

By Jennifer Coopersmith (Honorary Research Associate, Honorary Research Associate, La Trobe University, Australia)

Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W.D.Hamilton

By Ullica Segerstrale (Professor of Sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago and director of its Camras Scholars Program.)

The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

By Erin Webster (Assistant Professor of English, William & Mary)

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

By Gordon Campbell (Fellow in Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester)

Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in your Hand

By Richard J.A. Talbert (Kenan Professor of History, Kenan Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By James C. Whorton (Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle)

Organic Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction

By Graham Patrick (Lecturer in Organic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, University of the West of Scotland)

Crystal Clear: The Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg

By A.M. Glazer (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford), Patience Thomson

Philosophy in the Islamic World: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3

By Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich)

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction

By Philip Ball (, Freelance science writer and Consultant Editor of ^INature^R)

Newton: The Making of Genius

By Patricia Fara

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

By Richard Dawkins

Our Changing Views of Photons: A Tutorial Memoir

By Bruce W. Shore (Retired, retired)

The Historical and Physical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

By Robert Golub (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, North Carolina State University), Steve Lamoreaux (Professor of Physics, Yale University)

No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care

By Luke Messac (Resident Physician, Resident Physician, Brown University)

Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World

By Dorrik Stow (ECOSSE Chair, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)