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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

The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History

By David Elliston Allen

Men among the Mammoths

By A. Bowdoin Van Riper

Desmond: Archetypes & Ancestors (Pr Only): Palaeontology in Victorian London, 1850-1875

By Desmond

Eugene Dubois and the Ape-Man from Java: The History of the First 'Missing Link' and Its Discoverer

By L.T. Theunissen, Enid Perlin-West

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

By Chandos Michael Brown

Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts

By Diana Donald, Jane Munro, Fitzwillian Museum Cambridge

Reactions: The private life of atoms

By Peter Atkins (Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford)

Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

By Sandra Harding

Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society

By Ullica Segerstrale

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)

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

By Rudolf Carnap

Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

By Val McDermid

Curie

By Sarah Dry, Sabine Seifert

The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

By Neil D. Lawrence

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By Nicola Twilley