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Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

By Val McDermid

Einstein: A Life

By Denis Brian

Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

By Charles Thorpe

Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections

By Alice Kimball Smith, Charles Weiner

J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Abraham Pais

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Lawrence and Oppenheimer

By Nuel Pharr Davis

Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

By Andrew Robinson

Einstein Defiant: Genius Versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution

By Edmund Blair Bolles

Boffinology

By Justin Pollard

Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics

By Mauro Dardo (Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro)

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

By Cropper

Einstein: A Biography

By Jurgen Neffe, Shelley Frisch

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

Reactions: The private life of atoms

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

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

By Diana Donald, Jane Munro, Fitzwillian Museum Cambridge

Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic

By Chandos Michael Brown

The Seashell On The Mountaintop

By Alan Cutler

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

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

By Desmond

Men among the Mammoths

By A. Bowdoin Van Riper

The Naturalist in Britain: A Social History

By David Elliston Allen

The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China

By Roger Osborne

Charles Darwin, Geologist

By Sandra Herbert

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

By Lisa Jardine

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

By Norman Macrae

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)