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The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity

By Claudia de Rham

Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics

By David Kaiser (Norton)

Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland

By Marianne Sommer

Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (1916-1956)

By Dean Rickles (Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, University of Sydney, Australia)

The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust

By Gordon Fraser

Mechanistic Images in Geometric Form: Heinrich Hertz's 'Principles of Mechanics'

By Jesper Lutzen (, Department of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics

By Nicholas Mee (Director, Virtual Image Publishing Ltd and Quantum Wave Publishing Ltd)

The New Quantum Age: From Bell's Theorem to Quantum Computation and Teleportation

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Special Relativity: A First Encounter: 100 years since Einstein

By Domenico Giulini (, Department of Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany)

Shape Dynamics: Relativity and Relationalism

By Flavio Mercati (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)

Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

By Aitor Anduaga (Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History, Basque Country, Spain)

Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939: Laboratories, Learning and College Life

By Robert Fox (Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, UK), Graeme Gooday (School of Philosophy, University of Leeds

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics

By Jed Z. Buchwald (Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology), Robert Fox (Emeritus Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford)

The Quest for Reality: Bohr and Wittgenstein - two complementary views

By Stig Stenholm (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden)

Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?

By E. Brian Davies (Department of Mathematics, King's college, London)

Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History

By Klaus Hentschel (Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, History Department, Stuttgart University)

Beyond the Dynamical Universe: Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced

By Michael Silberstein (, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Elizabethtown College, USA), W.M. Stuckey (, Professor of Physics, Timothy McDevitt (, Professor of Mathematics

Space Time and Electromagnetism

By J. R. Lucas, P. E. Hodgson, P.E. Hodgson

Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique: SPHERE)

Geophysics, Realism, and Industry: How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900-1960

By Aitor Anduaga (Ikerbasque Research Professor, Ikerbasque Research Professor, Basque Museum of the History of Medicine and Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain)

The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions

By Roger Wagner (Artist and writer, Artist and writer), Andrew Briggs (Professor of Nanomaterials, Professor of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK)

UNCOMMON WISDOM: Conversations with Remarkable People (Flamingo)

By Capra

A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, University of Paris 7)

Visual Cultures in Science and Technology: A Comparative History

By Klaus Hentschel (Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, Head of Section for the History of Science & Technology, History Department, Stuttgart University)

Toward a New Dimension: Exploring the Nanoscale

By Anne Marcovich (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, GEMASS, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), Terry Shinn (Directeur de Recherche Emerite, Directeur de Recherche Emerite, CNRS)