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Beyond the Genius: Nobel Stories of Passion and Controversy in Science

By Virginia Shepherd, Charles Brau

Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege

By Brian M. Hughes

A Brief History of Computing

By Gerard O'Regan

Celestial Sleuthing: More Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature

By Donald W. Olson

You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

By Jaron Lanier

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain

By Antonio R. Damasio

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

By Mary Poovey

The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949

By James Reardon-Anderson

The Galileo Connection

By Charles E. Hummel

Elephants on Acid: and Other Bizarre Experiments

By Alex Boese

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

By Lisa Randall

The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things

By Verma, Surendra

Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk

By Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Bad Science

By Goldacre, Ben

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

By Richard Mabey

The Intentional Brain: Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry

By michael r. trimble

Cartoon Guide to Genetics (Cartoon Guide Series)

By Gonick, Larry

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

By Nick Mann, Theodore Gray

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

By Dawkins, Richard, Richard Dawkins

History of Mathematics

By Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach, U. Merzbach

Capitalism and Arithmetic: The New Math of the Fifteenth Century

By Frank J. Swetz

The Scientist, The Madman, The Thief And Their Lightbulb: The Search For Free Energy

By Keith Tutt

Historical Connections in Mathematics: v. 1: Resources for the Classroom

By Wilbert Reimer, Luetta Reimer

Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs

By Richard Gillings

Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies

By Peter Marren

The Book of Victorian Heroes

By Adam Hart-Davis, Paul Bader

E=Mc2. A Biography Of The World's Most Famous Equation

By david-bodanis

Ordering Life: Karl Jordan and the Naturalist Tradition

By Kristin Johnson (Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound)

Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth

By Ian Mortimer

From Sails to Satellites

By J.E.D. Williams