History of Science

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

Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History

By E. G. Richards (formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biophysics, King's College London (retired))

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

By Headrick

The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World

By Luke Keogh

The Making of the Atomic Age

By Alwyn McKay

The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom

By Gennady Gorelik (Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Research Fellow, Boston University), Antonina W. Bouis (Vice President, Vice President, Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

By Helen Tilley

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

By Jim Baggott

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

By David C. Cassidy

Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed

By David H Clark, Stephen H P Clark, Stephen P H Clark

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

By Alex Boese

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

By Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry

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

By Andrew Doig

The Deutsches Museum, Munich

By Otto R. Mayr

The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

By I. Bernard Cohen (Harvard University)

A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times

By Donald Hill

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

By Vaclav Smil

Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953

By Simon Ings

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

By Jared M Diamond

Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization

By Donald W. Braben

De La Mettrie's Ghost: The Story Of Decisions

By C. Nunn

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

Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality

By Frank Wilczek (Author)

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)