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The Scientist As Rebel

By Freeman J. Dyson

Reflections on Kurt Goedel

By Hao Wang

Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project

By Spencer Wells

The Music of the Primes

By Marcus Du Sautoy

Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers

By Dan Rockmore

The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe

By Eric Lerner

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

By Julian Havil

Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

By Julian Jaynes

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

By Leonard Susskind

The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments

By Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

The Story of Light

By Ben Bova

Virolution

By Frank Ryan

The Infinity Puzzle: The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson

By Frank Close (Professor of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, and Fellow in Physics, Exeter College, Oxford)

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

By David Kaiser (Norton)

Seven Million Years

By Douglas Palmer

Scott of the Antarctic: The Definitive Biography

By David Crane

Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo

By Birut e Marija Filomena Galdikas

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead

By Heather Pringle

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

By Gary Marcus, Jeremy Freeman, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser

Apollo 11: The Inside Story

By David Whitehouse

Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN

By Pauline Gagnon (formerly Senior Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Indiana University, USA)

Seven Tales of the Pendulum

By Gregory L. Baker (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA)

Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics

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

New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning

By Istvan Hargittai (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Magdolna Hargittai (Research Professor, Research Professor

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)

Managing Science: Developing your Research, Leadership and Management Skills

By Ken Peach (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford)

Voodoo Science

By Robert Park

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)