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

By Tim James

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

By Milos Hudlicky

The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything

By Marcus Chown

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

By Adam Rutherford

Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World

By Polly Hope

The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War

By Tom Whipple

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

By George Johnson

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

By George Johnson

Our Moon: A Human History

By Rebecca Boyle

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

By Jason Roberts

A Heart Divided: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 4

By Jin Yong, Shelly Bryant, Gigi Chang

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University)

Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

By Sarah S. Richardson

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse

By Thackray, John, Press, Bob

Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender and Society

By Shirley C. Strum, Linda Marie Fedigan

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By Kirsty E. Duncan

Einstein: A Biography

By Jurgen Neffe, Shelley Frisch

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

By Silvan S. Schweber

112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science

By Estate of Margaret M Feldman Burton Feldman (c/o Elizabeth Richardson), Senior Lecturer in Criminology Katherine Williams

Einstein at Home

By Friedrich Herneck, Josef Eisinger, Alice Calaprice

An Einstein Encyclopedia

By Alice Calaprice (Senior Editor), Daniel Kennefick, Robert Schulmann

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

By Gregg Herken

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

By Sabine Hossenfelder

Recent Devs in the Hist of Chemistry

Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work

By Abraham Pais (Rockefeller University, New York), Maurice Jacob (Conseil Europeen de Recherches Nucleaires, Geneva), David I. Olive (University of Wales, Swansea), Michael F. Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)

John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More

By Norman Macrae

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London

By Lisa Jardine

Charles Darwin, Geologist

By Sandra Herbert

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne