books by subject
History of Science

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

Oxidations in Organic Chemistry

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

Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD

Disease: The Extraordinary Stories Behind History's Deadliest Killers

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

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

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

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

Our Moon: A Human History

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

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

The Life of Isaac Newton

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

The Natural History Museum: Nature's Treasurehouse

Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender and Society

Hunting the 1918 Flu

Einstein: A Biography

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius

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

Einstein at Home

An Einstein Encyclopedia

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

Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

Recent Devs in the Hist of Chemistry

Paul Dirac: The Man and his Work

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

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

Charles Darwin, Geologist
