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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

By Rudolf Carnap

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)

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

By Ullica Segerstrale

Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

By Sandra Harding

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

By Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes

Museums and the Natural Environment: The Role of Natural History Museums in Biological Conservation

By PETER DAVIS

Fundamentalism, Terrorism and the Future of Humanity

By Leonardo Boff

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

Wheels: This non-fiction picture book takes a look at all sorts of wheels.: Band 01b/Pink B (Collins Big Cat)

By Ridley, Frances, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

China: Land of Discovery and Invention

By Robert K.G. Temple

A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels

By Caspar Henderson

Life: an Unauthorised Biography: An Unauthorized Biography

By Fortey, Richard

The Northern Lights: How One Man Sacrificed Love, Happiness and Sanity to Unlock the Secrets of Space

By Lucy Jago

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

By Edward J. Hackett (Professor, Arizona State University), Olga Amsterdamska (University of Amsterdam), Michael E. Lynch (Cornell University), Judy Wajcman (Head of Department of Sociology, London School of Economics & Political Science ), Wiebe E. Bijke...

Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars

By Ziauddin Sardar

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

By Bill Bryson

The History of Medicine: A Beginner's Guide

By Mark Jackson

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

By Patrick Coffey (Visiting Scholar, Office for the History of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley)

A Brief History of Science: through the development of scientific instruments

By Thomas Crump

Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein

By Olivier Darrigol (, University of Paris VII)

Worlds of Flow: A history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl

By Olivier Darrigol (History of Science, University of Paris VII, France)

Magnificent Principia: Exploring Isaac Newton's Masterpiece

By Colin Pask

Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

By G Pascal Zachary

Leonardo the Scientist

By Carlo Zammattio, Augusto Marinoni, Anna Maria Brizio

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By Michelle Feynman, Richard Feynman, Timothy Ferris

Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time

By Peter Galison

Rochester Roundabout: Story of High Energy Physics

By J. C. Polkinghorne

Boyle: Between God and Science

By Michael Hunter

The Essential Turing

By B. Jack. Copeland (Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Charles Darwin, Geologist

By Sandra Herbert