History of Science

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius

By Hans C. Ohanian (University of Vermont)

The Day We Found the Universe

By Marcia Bartusiak

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)

Science Year by Year: A visual history, from stone tools to space travel

By DK

Reaching for the Stars: Illustrated History of Manned Spaceflight

By Peter Bond, Harrison Schmitt

A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

By Cyril Aydon

Science and Islam: A History

By Ehsan Masood

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By Reviel Netz, William Noel

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

By John Reader

Uncentering The Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

By William T. Vollmann

A Short History of Nearly Everything

By Bill Bryson

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

By Gareth Williams

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

By Tim James

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Natural Theology

By William Paley, Matthew D. Eddy (Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Durham), David Knight (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science

A Suspiciously Simple History of Science and Invention (without the Boring Bits)

By John Farman

Geometry Civilized

By John Heilbron

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

By Mario Livio

Man and Nature in the Renaissance

By Allen George Debus

A Brief History of Computing

By Gerard O'Regan (SQC Consulting, Cork, UK)

Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People

By Philip Ball

Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

By Val McDermid

Einstein: A Life

By Denis Brian

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

By Charles Thorpe

Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections

By Alice Kimball Smith, Charles Weiner

J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Abraham Pais

A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science

By Noretta Koertge (Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University)

Einstein: A Biography

By Jurgen Neffe, Shelley Frisch