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Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

By Charles Thorpe

Einstein: A Life

By Denis Brian

Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

By Val McDermid

Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People

By Philip Ball

A Brief History of Computing

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

Man and Nature in the Renaissance

By Allen George Debus

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

By Mario Livio

Geometry Civilized

By John Heilbron

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

By John Farman

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

Isaac Newton

By James Gleick

The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965

By Dick Van Lente

Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary

By M. Turda

A History of Lung Cancer: The Recalcitrant Disease

By C. Timmermann

Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World

By C. Cox, H. Marland

Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850

By Bronwen Douglas

The Particle at the End of the Universe

The Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

Wellcome Collection: A Guide for the Incurably Curious

By Marek Kohn

The Great Scientists

By John Farndon

Decoding the Heavens: How the Antikythera Mechanism Changed The World

By Jo Marchant

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

By James Evans (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA)

The Non-Euclidean Revolution

By Richard J. Trudeau

Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine

By John V. Pickstone

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

By Nicola Twilley

The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

By Neil D. Lawrence

Curie

By Sarah Dry, Sabine Seifert

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

By J E Gordon

The Origins of Modern Science

By Herb Butterfield

Tracing the History of Placenames

By Charles Whynne-Hammond