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

By Susan Mattern

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

By Beth Fowkes Tobin

Understanding Natural Selection

By Michael Ruse (University of Guelph, Ontario)

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By Frank Wilczek (Author)

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

By Marcus Du Sautoy

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition

By Thomas S. Kuhn, Ian Hacking

Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization

By Donald W. Braben

Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

By Galileo Galilei, Albert Van Helden

On the Origin of Species

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

Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers

By Joseph C. Hermanowicz

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

By Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University), Sebastien Dutreuil

Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939 -1949

By Jim Baggott

The New Answers Book 1: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible

By Ken Ham

The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

By Cherry Lewis

Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

By John C. Lennox

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness

By Jack El-Hai

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity

By Luke Hodgkin (King's College, London)

The Theory Of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumphs of Modern Physics

By Robert Oerter

The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived

By Erik C. Banks (Wright State University, Ohio)

A History of Mathematics: An Introduction

By Victor J. Katz

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

By Kip S. Thorne, Stephen Hawking

Lost Moon

By Lovell

Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained

By James M. Russell

A Short Account of the History of Mathematics

By W.W.Rouse Ball

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Holmes, Richard

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

By Shelley Emling

Memory: Fragments of a Modern History

By Alison Winter

Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis

By Helen Bynum (Freelance historian)

The Naming of Names: the Search for Order in the World of Plants

By Anna Pavord

Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime

By James E. McClellan